In its annual survey work that entailed hundreds of store checks and calls to over 1, 000 consumers, Deutsche Bank found that while consumer electronics were the hot item of the weekend, customers focused on smaller, cheaper items like game consoles, tablets and smaller television sets.
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Social games juggernaut Zynga is scooping up game startups and smaller companies just as fast as it can.
And some smaller developers have even begun advertising on The Piratebay, linking the game and providing a site where you can purchase the game if you want to support the product and they see a boost of sales due to that.
Today the trend reached ridiculous proportions, apparently due to a Motley Fool story which suggested that as an alternative to buying Groupon, Google could buy a smaller player in the local advertising and marketing game and build from there.
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All of this adds a lot of cost, and you have to wonder whether game studios, particularly smaller ones, are going to be prepared to absorb that overhead for a market that no-one is saying is going to be large in the near future.
One of the focal points for the new game is bringing authentic sound (large crowds of 100, 000 will sound different than smaller crowds) and sights (over 60 authentic pre-game on-the-field traditions) to the virtual gridiron.
They decided to sell their million-dollar house (which prior to playing the game they were adamant about keeping) and buy a smaller one.
Although Noront Resources is a much smaller company than Goldcorp and Barrick, its Mikawaa Portal could be a game-changer.
But though retail prices are higher at physical retailers, the margins per unit may be smaller when factoring in the cost of packaging and shipping for a physical game.
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Lopez stayed in the game, even against smaller lineups, to finish with 30 points and 11 rebounds.
At the very least, fewer competitors in the business--and bond insurers would need to maintain the highest rating to stay in the game--would raise the cost of bond issuance for many smaller cities and make some projects too expensive to finance.
Being able to play the game on the gamepad is really great, and if anything it looks even better on the smaller screen.
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But many municipalities in Pennsylvania have leased smaller parcels or have debated doing so, and the state has also signed drilling leases for public forests and game lands.
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