At the same time, private consumer demand rises sharply, fuelling an upswing.
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Attrition among the private consumer web companies will be high.
But as more and more private consumer information is kept online, criminals are increasingly turning to the more serious fraud of identity theft, using consumer data to assume another person's identity and take out new credit cards or loans.
We've seen job postings for immediate hires up 40% on 2009 and vacancies in some sectors such as venture capital, private equity and consumer products up by as much as 70%.
Achieving sustained progress on grid modernization requires a partnership between states and the Federal government, as well as collaboration with the private sector, consumer groups, and other stakeholders, and we welcome this partnership.
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Private companies can assess consumer preferences and experiment with ways to integrate sustainability into product design and marketing.
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The result: slow recovery of the private economy, weak consumer demand, paltry job growth -- considerably offset by continuing job shrinkage in the public sector.
Just as employees in the private sector have embraced consumer cloud services and developed a habit of bringing their own devices to work, so have state employees.
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Working closely with private-sector companies, consumer advocates, academic experts, and standards organizations, the Federal government can help convene all interested private stakeholders to contribute towards a common goal.
At CircleUp, the investors on our platform include angel networks, successful consumer entrepreneurs and private equity professionals.
His son, Dan, runs Fireman Capital Partners, a private equity fund investing in consumer products, golf courses and films.
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Instead, it provides economic resources to people (and some businesses) that then show up in other GDP components such as consumer spending and private investment.
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If lower interest rates lift share prices, this may boost consumer spending as private shareholders feel wealthier, or spur corporate investment by reducing the cost of capital.
Within the private sector, logistics and consumer goods companies can probably make the biggest difference to the epidemic, by helping streamline distribution of treatments to communities that need it.
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The new boss says that risk appetite at the investment bank will be dialled back up again in due course, and that more capital will flow to other businesses such as retail banking in emerging markets, consumer credit and private banking.
Subsequently, I found my way into private practice and have enjoyed a rewarding career helping out and advocating on behalf of state and local governmental agencies, consumer oriented groups and smaller private entities in their battles against the larger corporations and government agencies, too, primarily in the energy industry.
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Private-label market share for consumer electronics is only 0.6%, according to Euromonitor.
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On Tuesday the Conference Board, a private business research group, announced consumer confidence in the U.S. sunk to 50.4 in June, nose-diving from the 58.1 revised May figure.
Many doctors consider it a threat to consumer choice and the current private insurance-based system.
Finally, Anne said it was important to improve consumer projections for buyers of private long-term care insurance.
But this time round, more of the spending is being done by private companies, with an eye to consumer demand, rather than by states.
The talks are being held against the backdrop of what appears to be a steadily deteriorating economic situation, highlighted by thousands of new private sector job cuts and record low consumer confidence.
Steep increases in college costs are to blame for the student-loan debt burden, and most student loans are now made by the government, says Richard Hunt, president of the Consumer Bankers Association, a private lenders' industry group.
The Conference Board, a New York-based private research group, said Tuesday that its consumer confidence index rose to 68.1 in April.
The Greenwich, Connecticut-based middle-market private equity firm is shifting its strategy to consumer products from industrial companies, says Ian MacTaggart, managing partner.
Private businesses spend years developing and refining such consumer software.
But even that was just a drop in the bucket of data generated daily by governments, corporations and research institutions, as well as by private individuals using smartphones, laptops and other consumer devices.
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