Like the dispatcher at the mini-cab company.
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Pipcorn of Brooklyn is another new-style popcorn company selling mini popcorn made from hull-less kernels.
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Acer, a crosstown rival in Taipei and first responder to Asustek's innovation, has since surpassed Asustek to become the number one company in the mini-laptop category.
He finally quit his job at an electronics company and opened a mini-mart inside his cramped living room.
Widespread worries that the company priced the iPad Mini too high, leaving too much room for rival tablets.
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The problem for Dell is the Mini 9 may not help the company with its biggest problem: profits.
So we were intrigued, then, when we found this mini PC hanging out at the company's Computex booth.
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Widely rumored after an accidental leak, the company confirmed that the mini will be one of the products rolled out at a Samsung event in London on June 20.
The pilot opens with the Bluth family celebrating who will become the next CEO of the Bluth Company, a real estate company that specializes in mini-mansions, founded by George Bluth Sr. (Jeffrey Tambor), the family patriarch.
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The company's tiny Mac Mini, for the record, has been disc drive-free since last year.
Kessler contends the mini-blog platform could help the company gain traffic to its core Web properties while also increasing user stickiness and solidifying its leadership position.
There were big dangers for the company in pricing the iPad mini - make it too cheap and it could cannibalise the lucrative sales of its big brother, too expensive and it could flop against the competition from Google and Amazon.
The Movit mini will be offered by GiiNii, a company that came on the scene last year offering digital picture frames at Wal-Mart.
In the absence of an iPad mini or an Apple TV, will the company be able to beat the lofty expectations analysts have for it?
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But as the company dramatically overhauls its stores into mini malls featuring certain brands or types of merchandise, will shoppers hang in there to the finish line?
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While the official word from Apple is that it sold three million iPad Mini and iPad 4 units combined, the company did not reveal how many units were sold of each individual device.
Demand for its niche products and services have been on the rise, but even more optimism about the company has emerged on Wall Street when Mobile Mini announced this morning (Mar. 19, 2013) that it has named as President and CEO Erik Olsson, formerly chief executive at equipment-rental company RSC Holdings.
If the rumors are true, the company might release two cellular devices, including an iPhone Mini.
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While Apple will not report its earnings results until January 23, early estimates suggest that the company may have shipped as many as 12 million iPad Mini units.
The company said the reception has been warm to the 10 mini-shops that it rolled out last fall, including those for Levi's brand and Penney's new JCP line of casual clothes.
The figures came in slightly lower than analysts expected, as the company's product mix shifted to cheaper devices like the iPad Mini.
The company has 15 production facilities in the Americas that are integrated and mini-mill sites located in 6 countries while in Europe production facilities are located at 17 integrated and mini-mill sites in 9 countries.
The company hasn't gone to any special efforts to make the Mini more comfortable to hold, but at this size it doesn't particularly matter, given how easy it is to just wrap your hand around the thing.
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Individually, the company planned to ship 60 million full-size iPads and 40 million iPad Mini units.
Regardless, the company still managed to sell three million units of the iPad 4 and iPad Mini when they were released.
With the manufacturing ramp of the iPad mini and the iPhone 5 this past quarter, gross margins fell to 39% and the company is guiding margins to 38% next quarter.
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The company, already enjoying strong sales from the recently-launched iPhone 5, may debut a new iPad Mini at the event.
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If the company adds touch to the MacBook, it would greatly reduce the importance of the iPad 4 and iPad Mini.
Last month, the company began a trial program in that city to let restaurant and hotel guests order a taxi from a mini-kiosk called the Taxi Butler.
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