MetLife, one of the largest insurance providers in the U.S., competes with AIG and Hartford Financial to provide life insurance, health insurance, retirement planning products and auto and home insurance to both consumers and corporations.
Apple's event, its first since an appearance at the Macworld trade show in January, comes as speculation had been mounting about what new products the company was planning for this year.
Bank of America says the service combines the legacy Bank of America Online Investing's offering with Merrill Lynch's in-house, or "proprietary, " research, investment products, retirement-planning tools and advice through the call center.
According to fresh rumors from Apple blog AppleInsider, the computer maker will soon pledge support for Intel's upcoming new mobile chip platform, code named "Menlow, " and is planning multiple products using the platform for 2008.
There's the SEC and its members, but there's no planning for new products, no systemic reviews on a regular basis to decide what to do.
Already, AllianceBernstein (nyse: AB - news - people ) and others are planning similar income distribution products.
Manufacturers say they are looking forward to greater oversight to make it more difficult for anyone to start importing and distributing low quality e-cigarettes to the US, but they are fearful of more states planning to tax their products.
The traditional planning model also assumes that products and markets move through their life cycles in a sequential, orderly manner.
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Now that Google is planning to launch innovative new products such as Google Glasses and autonomous cars for the real world in addition to mobile phones, storefronts would play an important role in introducing new innovations to the general public.
Regardless, it sounds like gamers will have a chance to give feedback on those designs, as Valve's hardware team is planning a beta for its various products.
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Juniper, too, says it is on board, planning to roll out its first SDN products within a year.
According to reports, it is planning to launch mobile applications for Apple and Android products this month.
There's almost always a cost for advice, even if it's built into the cost of the products you end up buying, says Dan Keady, director of financial planning at financial-services firm TIAA-CREF.
These clients are also more likely to have their advisors help them in the planning process, and they are more likely to own more products and be open to new concepts, according to Hearts and Wallets.
They are more likely to take charge of choosing new financial products and accounts, budgeting, spending, saving and long-term financial planning.
And these products can have even greater impact when deployed together with increased access to family planning and reproductive health services.
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The same could apply to products at monstrous companies like Samsung or Sony, where executives need to make planning decisions based on product performance, and could benefit greatly from having all of the necessary information for a single gadget listed around each cube.
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And USDA is planning to integrate data on culturally relevant foods into mainstream agency nutrition informational products.
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Rubbermaid is now planning a product "summit" with Carrefour in the Netherlands to display such commercial Rubbermaid products as heavy-duty trash cans and other items sold only in North America.
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