Whenever you are being pitched a product as a solution, I suggest you exercise caution.
Holding sold the premium product as a way to make a little extra in the thin-margined business of gasoline sales.
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McClung got the idea for Blue Stuff in 1996 when he met an emu breeder who was selling an emu-oil product as a pain reliever.
If necessary, the company is prepared to register the product as a low-level medical device as it has done in certain other markets outside the U.S. to meet local regulatory requirements.
Eventually, it envisions its product as a way for academic centers to benchmark their doctors against other organizations and a valuable resource for general physicians looking to refer their patient on to the right specialist.
Publishers claim the bar is too high when it comes to good scores, but then will view their product as a complete failure if it fails to meet the expectations that they themselves have set.
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And I think that comes from the contrast between these two people really just having very different approaches and influences and kind of battling it out and coming out with this kind of inspired product as a result.
Over the past few years, Sean Paul has been using the popular Apple product as a sort of melodic sketchpad, tapping out beats while traveling on planes, trains and automobiles and later refining them in the studio.
When I joined Ocean Spray, we were sitting in a meeting looking at this particular product as a business opportunity to grow, and I noticed that everybody was popping these things into their mouths, as if they were potato chips.
Clearly, trying to produce such an extraordinary product as a laptop that is kid-proof and capable of working in jungles, deserts or the bush, miles from the nearest grid connection, and all for the cheapest possible price, has concentrated minds remarkably.
Our innovation focus, however, is not technology development, rather a marriage of proven technologies and end-user focused product management as a driver for product development innovation for underserved individuals and communities.
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Does a product such as a hi-fi or a television qualify if it is equipped with an Internet browser to download songs and videos?
There will be a new product that counts as a new product category, so think iPhone or iPad-type of impact.
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An annuity is a financial product sold as a way to collect and grow funds and then later receive those funds as a steady cash flow during retirement.
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One unexpected revelation from the Apple v Samsung courtroom saga, as reported by SFGate, was the admission that Apple puts a lot of stock in product placement as a marketing tool.
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And to a large extent the success of the product class as a whole is due to the ground cut by the Rio line of players put out by SonicBlue (nasdaq: SBLU - news - people ).
The more sports fans were pulled to a product over non-fans, the higher the product scored as a good match for sports advertising.
All this has prompted drug companies to ask themselves if they can improve on nicotine (and, of course, produce a patentable product as opposed to a drug that anyone can sell).
But Roenneberg sees this not so much as a by-product of industrial capitalism as a quirk of human physiology.
He described the finished product as being a "sci-fi, comedy, romance, father-son relationship, superhero, good over evil fight to save the world".
WebMD added that it expects an increase in the number of new branded pharmaceutical product introductions as a result of regulatory approvals expected during 2012.
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Instapaper, he said, encouraging me to integrate the Read Later bookmark into our product thinking as a way to serve our audience and grow revenues.
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Most network executives play down the digital threat (as incumbents often do), and the networks are resorting to cleverer--and potentially more intrusive--product placements as a way to zap the zappers (see related story, p. 82).
Rather than simply looking at new product launches as a means to determine bonuses and career trajectories, they need to judge individuals on how effective they and their teams are at gleaning knowledge from the past and applying it to the future.
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This is even more important for those purchasing a new type of product, such as a tablet, for the first time.
They ribbed him for his single-minded obsession with whey, a watery cheese by-product best known as a scene-setter in a nursery rhyme.
However, these tablets, particularly when combined with cloud storage services such as Dropbox or a product such as PogoPlug, can themselves more conveniently handle many of the tasks that justified remotely connecting to a PC.
Martin Smith of Whirlpool, an American white-goods maker, says his company overhauled its pricing two years ago by thinking of prices themselves as a product, much like a dishwasher.
This type of annuity receives a fair amount of seemingly scholarly press trying to justify including this product as part of a balanced portfolio.
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Mr Paterson, a state legislator for two decades before he became lieutenant-governor, is as much a product of corrupt Albany as of the Harlem Clubhouse.
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