So what does the future hold for building sustainable, local merchant- and consumer-centric daily deal models?
Dell hopes the new ad will convey its evolution into a more consumer-centric company.
That requires a sound strategic test, against a consumer-centric reality, and not just a laugh track.
Dozens of consumer-centric solutions exist to share documents and other files, including popular options such as Dropbox.
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Perception management is a key part of any online or consumer-centric business, particularly in fast moving, innovative environments.
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The challenge is we needed to change the company culture to be consumer-centric.
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These consumer-centric activities create lasting memories that contribute to brand loyalty and keep shoppers happy and coming back for more.
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Ultimately we all do, and doubtless consumer-centric and hand-held based features, services, and games, will be the mega-drivers of demand.
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The real challenge here is that consumer-centric applications will always fight for a tightly squeezed share of disposable consumer income.
This move will help HP gain market share in tablets without directly competing with Apple iPad, which is more consumer-centric.
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As firm believers that a consumer-centric strategy should drive all that a brand does out in the world, we started there.
Likewise, the rest of the consumer-centric apps (photos, media, etc.) as well as the messaging suite will be upgraded to be a bit friendlier.
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It is a move that will test one of the most enduring and consumer-centric corporate social responsibility strategies to be developed in the last decade.
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To learn more about other governments that are making the move toward dynamic, consumer-centric services, I encourage you to visit our Microsoft Dynamics website.
Acer has just come off the launch of its business-focused, Microsoft Windows-based W500 tablet and its consumer-centric, Android-based A500 tablet, both of which sport 10.1-inch displays.
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T-Mobile has been pretty experimental and innovative: It has experimented with newer technologies such as UMA, built its own handsets and has generally been a more consumer-centric company.
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And, with the spotlight burning so brightly on social media as a potentially powerful marketing channel, most eyes have been on Facebook and the other consumer-centric networks in its shadow.
Payment providers, especially mobile payment providers, claim to represent the best in consumer-centric solutions, but if they truly care about consumers, why do they block so many important transaction types that consumers want?
While these are just two examples, they are part of a much larger movement taking place in government, as more organizations embrace consumer-centric services and technologies that rival the best in the consumer world.
"As a global leader in the PC market, Lenovo's success rests on our ability to deliver consumer-centric innovations in products that deliver a blend of mobility, performance and price, " said Bai Peng, vice president and general manager, IdeaPad Business Unit, Lenovo.
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The aftermath of the dot-com bust may seem like an odd place for a venture capital firm to get its start, but that was the case for Emergence Capital and in the decade-plus since the firm started it has eschewed the consumer-centric booms and blowups of the first wave of the Internet in favor of business-focused services.
The open source community is transitioning to create advanced Web-centric consumer devices using high profile open source based distributions and a wide range of high-performance, low-power ARM(R)-based SoCs.
This is ultimately a non-problem with the continual decline in the costs of smartphones, bandwidth, and Cloud-centric analytics, and the ever-deeper cultural shift in consumer comfort and the daily use of on-line services.
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Krim thinks consumer computing will continue to become more Web-application centric, and he wants to put Jolicloud in a position to take a cut.
User-centric computing is a theme we can expect to hear articulated in many ways next week at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas.
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