Coming off a 2011 holiday season that witnessed consumers purchasing tablets at a torrid pace, the recent exponential growth in sales promises to spur the consumption of games, which numerous studies indicate are the number one activity on tablet devices.
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But for consumers, purchasing virtual goods for Kabam games through Pokki apps will work just as it does when people play games directly on Kabam.com.
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Online ad company DoubleClick, Abacus' former owner, scrapped plans to cross-reference data about consumers' purchasing behavior with their online habits in 2000, when privacy advocates howled.
It would boost consumers' purchasing power and squeeze corporate profits, which have accounted for most of the increase in China's excessive domestic saving in recent years.
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One reason the strengthening of the yuan will play into the hands of the Chinese consumer is that a stronger exchange rate cheapens import prices, giving consumers greater purchasing power.
It really is extraordinarily easy to see the connection here: decades of higher gas prices have led to manufacturers producing more efficient engines and to consumers preferentially purchasing small engined cars.
The pace at which consumers are purchasing and using tablets and smartphones is expected to outpace the capacity of wireless networks to support them unless more spectrum is made available to U.S. wireless carriers in the near future.
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It also explains the risks that consumers face when purchasing pirated software.
Brands essentially underwrite the cost of products that consumers are already purchasing in exchange for their branding to be applied to those goods.
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For U.S. companies, going global initially meant developing products in the U.S. and localizing them for European and Japanese markets where local consumers have similar purchasing power.
Consumers and business purchasing agents can now easily compare prices of products and services proffered by merchants and suppliers and apply pressure for more efficiency and lower costs.
What's more, the results are ordered by the Consumer Merchant Preference (CMP) ranking, which prioritizes results using consumers' aggregate purchasing and search preferences (this is similar to how PageRank works with the Google search engine).
While consumers strongly prefer purchasing music by individual song, music label executives, managers and even some artists dislike the iTunes policy that requires music to be made available by the song as well as by the album.
The ultimate in energy efficiency will come when power producers can turn on and off small substations at a moments notice based on real-time data on energy consumption at a household level, and consumers can make power purchasing decision based on real-time metering of their consumption.
Exactly what will each extra job cost consumers in terms of reduced purchasing power?
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Some consumers may be wary of purchasing gift cards due to the shaky economy.
For one thing, tougher times can make consumers reconsider many of their purchasing decisions, leaving them open to trying something new.
The main goal of the campaign is to make consumers think twice about their purchasing power, said Imran Siddiquee, social media coordinator of MissRepresentation.org.
The San Francisco-based organization founded by Brent Schulkin organizes campaigns that harness the collective purchasing power of consumers to incentivize companies, big and small, to become more socially responsibile.
Citing the rise of a new, moneyed middle class and changes in the purchasing behavior of consumers for Brazilian-made goods, Harvard Business School grad Reichel said now is the time to invest in a more online-attuned Brazil.
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This year, entrepreneurs have been new sites nearly every week that offer consumers deals at spas, ice cream parlors and corner delis each week by combining the purchasing power of a group of consumers buying a specific deal.
We simply want to provide a platform that empowers consumers to make well-informed purchasing decisions.
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The reality is that only about 5% of consumers make ethical decisions in their purchasing habits.
The purchasing power of German consumers and industry is seen as key to the recovery of the region.
The potential market for your products or services can be defined as the pool of consumers or businesses who would consider purchasing them.
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"On the demand side, austerity measures and the recessionary environment in Europe will keep the purchasing power of European consumers down, putting pressure on diesel vehicle sales and platinum demand levels, " she said.
Plain packaging will also exacerbate an already serious counterfeiting problem in parts of the EU. If unregulated, counterfeit cigarette packages are essentially indistinguishable from regulated products, consumers are at greater risk of purchasing dangerous products.
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Further, consumers enhanced their home viewing experience by purchasing more than 27 million HDTVs during 2011.
More than 50% of consumers in advanced EU economies are already purchasing a smartphone instead of a feature phone.
Marc Speichert: Consumers are clearly moving outside the traditional purchasing funnel, changing the way they research and buy products.
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