World-of-Mouth (WOM) and buzz has always been an efficient and effective way to help new products reach the mass consumer market, especially in personal consumer products industry that is conducive to fashion and faddism.
Ian Livingston, BT's chief executive officer, told Marketplace Europe the "consumerization" of business -- the trend for personal consumer devices such as smartphones and tablet computers to be used in the workplace -- was redefining the way we do business.
Promisingly, the Chinese bank regulator announced draft rules in May to allow domestic and foreign institutions to set up consumer-finance firms to offer personal loans for consumer-goods purchases.
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These will be followed Friday by personal income, consumer sentiment and pending home sales.
On Friday, we get the numbers on personal income and consumer sentiment, which is likely to be watched closely by Wall Street.
While its engineering is admirable, Hitachi has struggled to keep pace with quarterly updates demanded by markets for microchips, personal computers and consumer gizmos.
Neat ideological labels have become harder to pin on parties since they have had to contend with the emergence of what some commentators call post-material issues (such as the environment, personal morality and consumer rights) which do not slot elegantly into the old left-right framework.
In the U.S., we can see it in the reversals of previously positive economic reports and unexpected declines in durable goods orders, industrial production, new home sales, existing home sales, new home starts, construction spending, new jobs creation, personal income, consumer confidence, small business confidence, and so on.
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Apple, like many other big personal-computer and consumer-electronics brands, doesn't actually make most of its products.
The integration of personal mobile devices, consumer applications and social networks into the workplace is now permanent.
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Despite the hurdles, personal computer vendors and consumer electronics players can't afford to cede the market to Apple, notes Kevorkian.
Or that growth of personal incomes is actually exceeding consumer spending growth.
Lady Wilcox said the government was carrying out a review into consumer credit and personal insolvency, and there had been previous investigations of the issue.
Consumer demand for personal computers hit a four-year low in July, according to a report published on September 10th by Odyssey, a San Francisco research firm.
Founded by the pioneers of hard drives, Hitachi GST provides high-value storage for a broad range of market segments, including Enterprise, Desktop, Mobile Computing, Consumer Electronics and Personal Storage.
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Many analysts have attempted to value gold in other ways, such as by assuming a constant ratio between the gold price and consumer prices, personal incomes, the amount of U.S. dollars in circulation or the value of the world's financial assets.
Net consumer borrowing relative to personal disposable income has fallen 4% in the year through March, the second-largest drop in 55 years.
If the markets are not exhausted by then, we have the personal income, Chicago PMI and consumer sentiment reports coming our way Friday.
Marketing brands via mobile face two difficult challenges: First, gaining consumer attention on their personal and user-controlled devices where they act as singular gatekeepers.
The Samsung container is meant to provide robust enterprise data security while allowing the consumer to use its personal applications as it normally would.
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He notes that with little fanfare the Fed recently switched its inflation benchmark from the Personal Consumption Expenditure deflator to the Consumer Price Index.
As 5 billion users connect to the web through mobile devices and computers, privacy is becoming a main stream need for every consumer that expects their personal conversations and activities to remain private.
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The continued recovery of the residential real estate market is needed for the U.S. economy to build upon its current recovery efforts due to its implication on personal household balance sheets and overall consumer sentiment.
Even two decades after the Apollo moon mission, all the energies of hardware manufacturing firms were focused on semiconductors (like DRAMs or CPUs), color televisions, cars, Walkmans, CDs, VHS recorders, and a new consumer item called the personal computer.
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The 55ZL2's glasses-free 3D application is powered by Toshiba's high-performance multi-processor platform CEVO-ENGINE which also allows for many more innovative applications including PERSONAL-TV, enabling the consumer to personalise TV settings, and SMART-TV applications such as USB recording and access to Toshiba Places.
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So are the SIA's claims that the increases in sales are being fuelled by a revival in demand for personal computers, wireless communications, and consumer and automotive products.
Consumer confidence wanes, impacting personal consumption expenditures.
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The country accounts for 20% of personal computer and handset demand and the Chinese consumer, Credit Suisse says, is very price sensitive.
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