"The large screen market is a sweet spot right now for the TV industry, " said Ben Arnold, Director of Industry Analysis at The NPD Group.
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Partly because none of these general answers is wholly persuasive, it is the industry-by-industry analysis that is by far the best part of the book.
Officially, blame goes to smartphones that now make up the majority of handset sales in the U.S., according Ross Rubin, Executive Vice President of industry analysis at The NPD Group.
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"Even taking into account the tremendous sales growth of the Galaxy III and other Samsung smartphones, the iPhone is still king of the U.S.-market hill, " said Stephen Baker, vice president of industry analysis at The NPD Group.
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Android handsets sold briskly in the past year largely due to strong promotional support from Verizon Wireless, noted Ross Rubin, Director of Industry Analysis at the NPD Group.
We believe it is the best analysis of the venture industry, which typically is very private about its returns data.
Though bucking bull breeders can trace a few lines back to the 1930s, the targeted breeding of bucking bulls did not take off until the 1990s, when DNA analysis became the industry standard for determining parentage.
Advanced Energy Economy (AEE), a national organization representing the industry, recently released the first-ever analysis of the national and global advanced energy sector.
"It's part of a growing trend to integrate hardware, software and services, " says Ross Rubin, director of consumer technology industry analysis for the NPD Group.
"Ultrabooks have helped establish a market for more premium-priced Windows notebooks at retail, " said Stephen Baker, vice president of industry analysis at The NPD Group.
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Privately held dentist offices (NAICS code 6212) have seen sales so far this year decline about 3 percent after posting ongoing-though-shrinking gains in their top lines throughout the recent recession, Sageworks found in an analysis of the industry.
Each year TrueBridge Capital Partners publishes a State of the Venture Capital Industry market analysis.
One would think that the entire exercise these people go through would be considered meaningless, but the fundamental analysis industry is much too big and established, and there's no chance that this game will come to an end in our lifetime.
Ross Rubin is director of industry analysis for consumer technology at market research and analysis firm The NPD Group, .
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Ross Rubin is executive director of industry analysis for consumer technology at market research and analysis firm The NPD Group.
Ross Rubin is director of industry analysis for consumer technology at market research and analysis firm The NPD Group and a contributing editor for LAPTOP.
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Studies and analysis of the industry are practically non-existent.
The approach to legal billing needs to change but such a transformation can only be realized when a deep analysis of the industry is done to reveal the true drivers of rates.
Although Napster states that it is not possible to keep the same account logged in on two machines simultaneously, MusicAlly, a music industry analysis firm, found that in practice quite the reverse was true.
Nevertheless, nonresidential construction companies have been a major contributor to the overall industry growth in the last year or so, according to an analysis of private-company financial statements by Sageworks Inc.
The reason for the Patels' fury can be found in an analysis of the impact on the newspaper industry produced by Paul Dobson, a retailing professor at Loughborough University, on behalf of the Newspaper Publishers' Association.
"When GM feels the pain, the industry will back off incentives, " says Glenn Reynolds of the credit analysis firm CreditSights.
Taking advantage of the crunching power of SiSense and the free offer to play, Dave Feinleib and the team at The Big Data Group has just released their analysis of the state of the venture capital industry.
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Figures 5 and 6 are based on industry tear down analysis by iSuppli of the Apple iPhone 4G.
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Russ Crupnick, senior vice president of industry analysis for NPD, said the competition isn't hurting Apple yet because the iTunes user base is so big.
The report provides analysis by industry and geographic region as well as data on premium pay, stock ownership guidelines, perquisites and benefits, and board composition and structure.
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Despite all these peculiarities, the market for sport teams has become far more efficient in the past decade or so, says Steve Flatow of Bloomberg Sports, which provides data and analysis to the sports industry.
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Seasonal analysis of the various industry groups shows that the Market Vectors Semiconductor ETF ( SMH) typically bottoms in October and then has a last surge to the upside in March and April before it typically tops out.
Ross Rubin is director of industry analysis at NPD Techworld, a division of market research and analysis provider The NPD Group.
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