Kabbage, with 22 employees, is one of a number of start-ups such as BillFloat and ZestCash (these latter two focus on consumers) attempting to provide new forms of lending and underwriting by using new online financial and social media data.
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We believe now is the time to focus on ensuring consumers feel comfortable with 3D.
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Other efforts focus on giving consumers better access to their own health records and personal education data so that they can make informed choices.
Karabus Management CEO Antony Karabus notes that retailers need to work on their store productivity and focus on what consumers consider value to see improved sales.
Widely reviled by techies and elitists as being too simplistic, AOL nevertheless succeeded by keeping a laser focus on average consumers, almost single-handedly popularizing e-mail outside the workplace and bringing the Internet into the home.
Now they are increasing their focus on technology consumers can use to make purchases by simply entering a password or other easy-to-remember information on an e-commerce website, or by tapping a smartphone against a merchant payment terminal instead of swiping a physical card.
Our goal here, as it should be throughout the entire health care system, is to demystify the industry--bringing the focus back on the consumers.
Even so, credit card spending traditionally slows in the first three months of the year, as consumers focus on paying down cards after more spending during the holiday season.
Vox Populi will focus on news of interest to consumers who are worried about fees, recalls, warranty issues and the like.
The focus was very much on what consumers can do with photos once they're taken, rather than on taking the pics themselves.
Wal-Mart did report higher-than-expected earnings in the third quarter of this year--accomplished not by reinvention but by a focus on its core budget conscious consumers.
Founded in 2009 as a distributor of solar energy equipment, Kiwi was called PVPower before it changed its name just recently to focus on selling solar electric systems to consumers rather than installers.
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Investors puzzled over its hybrid consumer-and-enterprise business model, which depends on attracting consumers but selling services mainly to businesses, and its focus on the less-flashy world of professional connections.
As the interaction between smartphones and tablets increases, with matching operating systems and the capacity of sharing applications and data across platforms, consumers will begin to focus on OS rather than on brand.
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We focus on building the killer applications that delight consumers, and they want to keep coming back, and then Google can help them, through advertising, get relevant information about the products that they're searching for.
Ill-informed consumers, he maintains, focus on the immediate financing costs of mortgages even though the debt will typically last for decades.
The focus on hobbies makes ID an easy fit for consumers.
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The reform will focus primarily on facilitating damages claims from groups of individual consumers, and possibly SMEs, giving a central role to consumer associations.
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Mr. Hastings said in a blog post at the time that separating Qwikster would allow Netflix to better focus on providing movies and TV shows online, where consumers are increasingly watching videos.
"What matters now to consumers is which car can I focus on that's not going to give me a headache and which is going to cost quite a bit as far as repairs are concerned, " Festekjian says.
"This acquisition dramatically expands the consumer reach we provide to our advertising partners, while continuing our focus on delivering highly engaging and influential media experiences for consumers and advertisers, " commented Townsquare Media Group Chairman and CEO Steven Price.
Third, for lead generation to be effective, the lead generation company has to focus on an industry in which it is difficult for consumers to get information, either because it is fragmented, localized, difficult to understand, difficult to gather data or inefficient.
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It serves consumers through its retail websites with a focus on selection, price, and convenience.
What will help consumers most are mobile optimized sites that focus on getting key information quickly, such as store locations, prices.
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But Ray Gogel, president and chief operating officer of the CURRENT Group, who previously ran smart grid projects for Xcel, worries there's too much focus on the "edge" of the grid, where consumers connect.
With the UK economy and economies across Europe seeing weak or negative economic growth, Primark's focus on cheap clothing has proved to be popular among cash-strapped consumers.
Intel Chief Paul Otellini stuck to his assertion that Intel can generate double-digit sales growth, even as consumers in mature markets such as the United States focus on alternatives to the traditional PC, such as smart phones and tablet computers.
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If a certain topic has been the number one concern of consumers for 13 years running, a renewed and continued focus on it would seem appropriate.
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We need to focus less on scaring the public and demonizing innovators, and more on arming consumers with the tools to keep themselves, and their children, safe.
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At other times focus was on reaching into retail channels to better compete for U. S. consumers where Dell was not top dog.
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