In exchange, the consumer interest deduction and an array of special breaks were tossed out.
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Demand was also stoked by large operator device subsidies that helped to keep consumer interest in smartphones high.
Groupon faces slowing consumer interest in its online coupons, and has restated its financial results more than once.
If a handful of tech writers were unimpressed with the specs, that didn't translate into lack of consumer interest.
Or will you wait it out until LED technology expands, consumer interest grows, and sticker prices on incandescent-alternatives drop?
And consumer interest in new and constantly improving in-vehicle technology, he points out, should also be a big assist.
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World Acceptance has benefitted from a resurgence of consumer interest in payday loans.
Another reason for optimism is that consumer interest in companies' sustainability credentials remains strong in spite of the recession.
Gartner notes that laptops are no longer driving growth, due largely to a sharp drop in consumer interest in netbooks.
Each brand captured consumer interest by being not just a new kind of experience, but the exemplar of that experience.
Even new leadership will be hard pressed to buck the lack of innovation and consumer interest weighing down the industry.
The consumer interest is and should be paramount: if that means lower profits for publishers of college textbooks so be it.
Even hybrids are cooling off, with consumer interest down 34% compared with June's figures, according to Edmunds, which gets 16 million hits a month.
But Vasella is considerably less kind to consumer interest groups like Sidney Wolfe's Public Citizen, which jumped on Zelnorm as a potentially dangerous drug.
So shifting away from the producer interest to bringing in more health insurance firms was certainly not the same as prioritising the consumer interest.
Motor companies insist that the reason the original battery cars failed was lack of consumer interest, but that view is turned on its head here.
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Other device manufacturers such as HP, Asus, Sony and Acer are quickly developing their own tablet offerings to tap growing consumer interest in these devices.
Companies that champion a good cause find that doing so motivates employees, solidifies a place in the community, mobilizes consumer interest and boosts the bottom line.
Idan Beck, CEO of Incident Technologies, said as more small hardware companies have grabbed consumer interest through Kickstarter, they are proving there's a market for newfangled devices.
However, security concerns and a lack of consumer interest led credit card companies to deem the benefit of the technology not worth the cost of equipping cards.
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The lack of consumer interest for Windows-based phones has been very consistent in marketing surveys we have carried out across the globe over the last several years.
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Pebble has already demonstrated consumer interest in a watch that tethers to a smartphone, and Google Glass has staked claim to the leading edge on wearables.
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OnStar is conducting the pilot program to gauge consumer interest.
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Possessors of contestable market power or monopoly can be assumed to either not act against consumer interest or to be about to lose said market power or monopoly.
At the same time, the firm's projections suggest that sales growth in physical formats for home video will peter out by 2015 amid growing consumer interest in on-demand services.
Some in the industry view the deal as a way for Facebook to elevate online social behavior closer to search as an indicator of consumer interest and purchase intent.
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The company is normally tightlipped about future products but Talluri says keen developer and consumer interest in smartphones made it realize the benefits in sharing more information with them.
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Lobry talked about the impact it has played on the food and hospitality sector where consumer interest has shifted to being concerned about sustainable development and a healthy lifestyle.
Stores are getting in on the act, but unless more retailers anticipate the continued volume growth and increased consumer interest, and add space and products, the opportunity will be constricted.
If the intent is to convert consumer interest to purchases it might be time to reduce the volume on talking babies and dancing monkeys and up the attention on brand.
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