Long-term product investments, like Chrome and YouTube, which now enjoy phenomenal usage, were made with a significant degree of independence.
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Chrysler Group said Monday its quarterly losses widened in the final quarter of 2010 as it spent more on advertising and long-overdue product launches.
At BrandMixer, we have seen phrase and adjective tag clouds yield a stronger correlation to increasing long-term product sales vs. a popular meme on Twitter.
Getting the balance right between these short- and long-run product aspirations, and the investments required to get the field there, will be of critical importance.
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Its long-awaited product revamp also will be delayed until late 2012.
And no sooner had Marchionne welcomed a chorus of congratulations with the earnings report than he also released an updated long-term product plan for Chrysler brands that soberly confirmed recent reports that he has had to slash some expected new models and push others off into the future.
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Many of these car and watch brands develop long-standing partnerships that include joint product introductions and long-term marketing agreements.
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The truth is that unlike Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people)--well-known for its months-long, delay-ridden product launches--and in spite of a sub-10% market share for personal computers, Apple still knows how to work a room.
Can a company dependent on a revered luxury item boost its sales with a low-end product without alienating long-time customers?
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But in the official model used by the European Commission, imposing a tax of 0.1 per cent on stocks and bond trades and 0.01 per cent on all derivatives is found to reduce long-run gross domestic product in the EU by 1.76 per cent.
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Google 's ( GOOG - news - people ) a dominant search engine and as long as the revenues from their primary product--search--are large enough and their profits are large enough to subsidize the ongoing losses at YouTube.
The European Constitution is largely the product of a long-running Franco-German campaign to construct an economic, political and strategic rival to the United States.
Second, see your product through a long-term lens, asking yourself what could convince your customers to still engage with the app in two years' time.
That is not so easy when the product being sold is long-term advice, the quality of which will not become clear for decades.
But now in its third year of ownership by Geely of China, the surviving Scandinavian auto brand is counting on a new marketing campaign and more confident positioning to spark an American revival in the short term while waiting for a fresher, broader product line to provide long-term prosperity.
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Apple ( AAPL - news - people ) is--other than they manage their new product launches pretty well--is that not too long ago 40% of their sales were international.
That it's a non-biodegradable product made from petroleum whereas fur is very biodegradable and has a long shelf-life.
As now drafted, the proposed legislation includes annuities, disability insurance and long-care insurance within the definition of insurance product lines that could become the subject of federal regulation.
So, as with product, this is a long-term investment.
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Well that's good as long as Google's a dominant search engine and as long as the revenues from their primary product--search--are large enough and their profits are large enough to subsidize the ongoing losses at YouTube.
Due to the non-cyclical demand for their product and above average costs to relocate, healthcare tenants also prefer long-term leases to make their expenses predictable.
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But competition has never been so fierce, product lifecycles so short, nor long-term business perspectives so challenging.
And so now, after a long odyssey, the product that stands for farm-town virtue is managed from Rye Brook, near New York city.
Women benefit from professional, objective (non-product driven) financial support as long as it is not delivered in a patronizing manner or women are ignored.
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The report also cited the strong quarterly dividend history at Calumet Specialty Product Partners LP, and favorable long-term multi-year growth rates in key fundamental data points.
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There are several reasons, one of the more subtle among them being that the insurer can fund the product entirely with medium- and long-term bonds, since there are no payments in the short term.
In a letter to The Times, signed by Niall Ferguson and Anthony Beevor among others, 25 historians argue that first-past-the-post is the product of a long fight for one vote for every man or woman.
Huawei has a long-running relationship with TalkTalk in the UK. The Ascend G 330 is the latest Huawei-branded product to be launched by TalkTalk, following on the heels of Huawei's Y 201 smartphone, which launched this week, and its innovative YouView set-top box, which TalkTalk is currently installing at a rate of more than 1, 000 per day.
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But not everyone agrees with her that Hirsch is the product of a long, proud, left-wing tradition.
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