That morning, the city was celebrating Consumer Thanksgiving Day.
In a program held late Friday in honor of World Consumer Rights Day, CCTV accused Volkswagen of selling cars with substandard direct-shift gearbox systems, causing acceleration problems and car accidents for an unspecified number of consumers.
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And Lenovo would use the Internet, in addition to some stores, to peddle product in Europe and the U.S. The two also hashed out a strategy for managing the consumer rollout day to day, with executives tied to various locations (Asia Pacific, Europe) overseeing the IdeaPad launch in most countries.
With the U.S. unemployment rate well above 9%, can the consumer save the day?
And every day America has to wait for a new consumer protection watchdog is another day that dishonest businesses can target and take advantage of students, seniors, and service members.
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Without exports it will likely yet again be up to the U.S. consumer to save the day.
The fact that Google dominates the search business just reflects the economies of scale that come from processing billions of consumer information requests a day and using those queries to better refine search results.
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But in this day of shrinking consumer confidence and growing mistrust of institutions, it was the second interesting thing about the flight that got me thinking.
More televisions that can show 3-D are popping up on the market every day (and consumer electronics companies are wisely not charging a premium for the added technology).
While IT professionals might be delighted with a 3D tool that lets them photograph a room for a 3D model in a single day, a consumer wants to shoot it in a few minutes and move on.
The Consumer Confidence numbers come on a day when additional good news is pushing the Dow upwards.
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Razer revealed a dedicated gaming tablet called Edge on Tuesday, the official opening day of the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
The question is, are we taking the steps each and every day to build that consumer demand, to increase our exports, to create jobs here and sell products overseas?
Nintendo and Sony are fighting the old war while the guerrilla attacks from mobile and social game companies steal a few seconds more of the consumer leisure time with each passing day.
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The same day a key measure of consumer confidence dropped to recessionary levels.
As the Dow jumped more than 300 points in the first trading day of the year, consumer sentiment fell to 71.3 according to the University of Michigan, down from 72.9 in all of December.
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As of July, 2012 YouTube has over 70 hours of new, original consumer-generated programming uploaded onto it each day.
For established brands, the format provides a direct way of interacting with customers, turning each day's trading into a consumer focus group.
After the U.S. and China, Japan is a top consumer with 4.4 million barrels a day, followed by India (3.1 million) and Russia (3 million).
If that's the case -- and we think that it is -- you'll want to check into Greener Gadgets, a day dedicated to the quest for sustainable consumer electronics and better solutions for our industry, launched by Jill Fehrenbacher, Editor-in-chief of Inhabitat.
The vast majority of these rogue sites sold consumer goods that you or I could encounter any given day with any given click of the mouse.
Investors have now been pushing the market higher for more than three months, failing to be put off for more than a day or two by negative news such as consumer spending slowdowns and unemployment spiralling upwards.
We never thought our day could get any better after Huawei's Consumer Business Group CEO Richard Yu became available again for our CES stage interview (there was originally a "last minute urgent conflict"), but our man was also kind enough to share a couple more scoops with us.
But consumer spending, two-thirds of the economy, saved the day.
We then started to incorporate the online outreach and response experience in our day to day operations to offer more complete marketing solutions (from consumer responses to e-mail signatures).
After all, when you have to put a new product on the shelves every quarter, you must learn to master what the consumer really wants, and those desires are changing more quickly every day.
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The consumer preview of Windows 8 was downloaded one million times in a single day.
Still, the day was remarkable because investors brushed off a big drop in consumer confidence reported by the Conference Board.
It seems as if a story runs in the paper every day reporting another high-profile breach of security that exposed consumer credit card information and social media accounts.
The Fed minutes come on the same day the U.S. Labor Department reported that the Consumer Price Index fell 1.0% month on month, slightly greater than the 0.8% drop Wall Street had expected.
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