For Kay and Zaletel, the allure of Flashlight for a large consumer brand is obvious.
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Other members of the board have been involved with restaurants and other large consumer retail chains.
Most of its benefits accrue not in easily measured revenues and profits but in immeasurably large consumer surpluses.
Ms. Whitman ran a large consumer business, and her massive gubernatorial campaign gave her exposure to government issues.
The Russian property industry, potentially a large consumer of financial services and producer of debt, is still in its infancy.
Hindustan Unilever, a large consumer products company, recently launched a laundry detergent called Surf Excel that cleans clothes with considerably less water.
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Many vitamin and supplement makers are small, so the acquisitions are unlikely to move the needle much for large consumer and drug companies.
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While many start-ups have focused on advertising (think Admob), promotions, particularly from large consumer packaged goods companies, are an overloooked sector, Wong says.
Everyday Health: A large consumer health information and solutions company.
Earlier this year, Jamyn and Brian reunited with the goal of combining their past experiences in developing hardware and software and collecting data to create a product for a large consumer market.
HootSuite even allows ad agencies, content producers and company executives to collaborate inside one tool on native ad campaigns, which can easily run to tens of thousands of dollars daily for large consumer brands.
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Between 2003 and 2011, about 30 million Brazilians joined the so-called "new middle class, " earning between GBP100 and GBP400 per capita per month, and gaining access to formal sector employment, credit, and the country's large consumer market.
"Endowed with significant creative capacity and a large consumer base, India and China are rapidly reshaping the global knowledge economy of tomorrow, " Jaideep Prabhu, Professor of Indian Business and Enterprise at the school, said in a statement announcing the event.
Many felt that because the new technology, called DIAL (short for Discovery and Launch), is an open standard and already being integrated by a number of large consumer electronics manufacturers, it would replace AirPlay and a similar technology called Miracast.
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Which is why the weakness of the UK's disproportionately large consumer economy and the eurozone - Britain's largest export market, if regarded as a homogeneous whole - has meant growth in business investment has been significantly lower since the crash of 2008 than the government hoped (or, more precisely, than its Office for Budget Responsibility forecast).
The tiny Secure Digital memory card is beginning to loom large on the consumer electronics landscape.
Many companies now collect large datasets on consumer behavior, be it online search patterns or user demographics.
Microsoft has underestimated how tiny usage obstacles loom large in the consumer experience.
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In Britain , there was a surprisingly large fall in consumer-price inflation, from 1.5% to 1.1% in the year to May.
Sources in the banking industry say he may be very close to roping in a large Asian coal consumer as an equity investor.
Macquarie Securities analyst Kevin Smithen said he spoke to several smartphone buyers there from "large financial and consumer-products companies" who said they were considering the Z10.
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Growth was buoyed by the large increase in consumer spending.
While it is true that there is very little emphasis on gift-giving or large-scale consumer purchases during this time, there are nevertheless some trading ideas for this holiday, as with most holidays.
Most plan to make money by selling advertising on their own Web portals, and in the portal game capturing a large number of consumer eyeballs is an essential first step towards building a viable business.
But the Airbnb investment would be a large bet on the consumer Internet space, though in a very different area from Facebook or PayPal.
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The industry has had a tough time since the widespread adoption of email stole a large part of its consumer and business market share.
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The challenge is to extend this interest graph so it has more dimensions and so that we can see the trends and influences that are affecting the consumer at large.
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For rising stockmarket wealth to have a large impact on average consumer-spending there would need to be an even larger impact on the consumption of the minority of households with big shareholdings.
All the US consumer has seen is large additions to the stock of money without any addition to the aggregate supply of needed consumer goods.
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The federal government regulates large group plans and offers broad consumer protections (such as forcing insurers to cover pre-existing conditions and maternity benefits).
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