And, when you consider these initial orders were placed between the hours of 3 a.m. and 5 a.m.
Marvell and OLPC also announced that the XO 1.75 laptop will begin shipping in February, with initial orders benefiting education programs in Rwanda and Uruguay.
Donna with ACME Corp. is entering initial orders for a new million-dollar deal for backhoes needed in Kansas City in 90 days.
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While initial orders are still low the team plans to eventually make everything from running shorts to hooded sweatshirts once they have more capital.
Initial orders suggest that the industry is growing again, at last.
The key to our business was getting large initial orders from a customer and cashing their check quickly so the customer viewed their investment as sunk cost.
Nike expects the initial jump in future orders to occur in the current fiscal quarter, Mark Parker, Nike's president and chief executive, said.
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Last week we saw U.S. factory orders down and initial jobless claims rise.
He says Q2 component orders are up 60% from initial expectations in April.
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Fortunately, we did start to get orders pretty quickly, and our initial decisions had put us on the right track to grow without needing to rebuild everything from scratch.
The dollar index is weaker by 0.7% at its lowest in four weeks ahead of initial claims data and an April reading of factory orders.
Demand for iPhone 5 exceeded the initial supply and while the majority of pre-orders have been shipped to customers, many are scheduled to be shipped in October.
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Pacific Crest analyst Chad Bartlev this morning cut his 2012 forecast for Kindle e-reader sales to 12.3 million units to 24 million, asserting that his latest checks find that Q1 Kindle component orders have fallen more than 75% from initial expectations in early January.
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New orders will supposedly be possible, but only after initial refunds go through and the company is "well stocked" with inventory.
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Others, like the Pebble Watch, receive strong indications of market demand, receive large volumes of pre-orders, and raise crowd-sourced capital for initial manufacturing.
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That first-day total was double the number of iPhone 4S pre-orders the company took last year, and an initial Friday shipping date was quickly pushed back.
The initial results on FIFA 12 have been truly amazing with the pre-orders standing at 800, 000 a whopping 108% increase over the last year.
Apple announced on Monday that pre-orders of the phone topped 2 million in just 24 hours and that its initial supply batch for the phone sold out in just an hour.
These signs have included significant drops in initial jobless claims, increases in the index of Leading Indicators, as well as the ISM manufacturing new orders index extending above 50.
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