Loyalty remains an important factor for a company looking to gain share in the highly competitive mobile phone market.
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Factor in the company's humble beginnings in 1984 as a university offshoot in Edinburgh, Scotland, and the growth story becomes even more dramatic.
Its ad certainly ups the edginess factor for a company that sells directly to consumers through value multi-packs at chains like Wal-Mart.
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Finally, Applied slaps a decay factor on each company's earnings that it calculates with variables like firm size and the magnitude of the economic margin.
The iPhone remains a growth engine for Apple and the phone's popularity in Asia was a factor behind the company's robust earnings for its most recent quarter.
In an interview with BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Sir Andrew added that the government's continuing moves to cut general corporation tax was another major factor behind his company's decision.
Another important factor in the company's rise was consistency.
The "Wireless Wonder" Award goes to the Motorola Q , which took the slim form factor of the company's juggernaut RAZR line, applied it to a QWERTY device and threw in 3G network speeds for good measure.
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Apple remains publicly bullish about the east Asian markets and specifically China, but lack of leading appeal in developing markets may be one factor in the company reportedly working on a smaller, cheaper iPhone that would suit those markets.
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Other highlights include a promise that HSDPA will factor into the company's 2007 plans, a wide-scale migration of the FastPort connector to the sides of the handsets, and a shortening of the span from announcement to release of UIQ-based models (a move we applaud).
Taking advantage of a valuable business network she had cultivated over the course of her career was a key factor in launching her company.
Creativity, when it involves the production of something both novel and useful, is a key factor in giving a company or, in my world, a brand, the competitive advantage.
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The strongest factor in determining whether a company has staying power is user engagement.
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Meanwhile, sales of out-of-store products, such as packaged drinks and coffee beans, do not factor that significantly into the company's bottom line.
Yet another factor in antitrust is whether a company is using its dominant power to discourage competition.
Certainly consumers are making buying decisions based on the reputation of the company and many investors factor this into their investment decisions as well.
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Rollinson said mine optimization will be a factor going forward and that the company will focus on margin increases, rather than higher mine production at any costs.
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The private company said a contributing factor was that it had brought in 10 new consultants as staff, but the pace of their arrival was slower than expected.
The real value of the company and the differentiating factor was not in the market it was going after--which became plagued with issues--but the underlying technology for making the component products.
Meanwhile, according to Viacom, YouTube openly discussed its dependence on copyrighted content to become popular, and Google saw that IP-theft-driven popularity as a major factor in its acquisition of the company.
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And in a bizarre way, Microsofts spasm of innovation has made the company now a destabilizing factor for IT departments and Google Docs is looking an awful lot like the old guard.
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The Barra Risk Factor is below 40 for each company, which means that over the next month, the stocks are predicted to be less volatile than 60% of the 6, 196 equities in the broad market group.
Another factor evaluates the extent to which a company is dependent on specific suppliers .
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Your initial investment in your company can be the determining factor of whether your start-up takes off or goes bust.
The other critical factor in Chambers' favor is the company's remarkable growth record, which he looks to for ultimate vindication.
As for the Americas, the company said that a major factor was the drop in sales for the Logitech Revue device for Google TV.
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And while Mozilla has certainly made progress on that front, the organization understands that diversifying is an important factor in the future success of the company, first through Thunderbird and more recently through the Firefox OS, a mobile operating system targeted toward users in developing nations.
Figuring out what motivates individuals to blow the whistle on crimes they witness is a key factor to the effectiveness of any regulations or company policies.
"I felt I was a significant contributing factor to paying Ayrton more money than this company could afford and the way we paid it was to the detriment of our engineering resource, " Dennis said.
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