Those recommendations come from CBS and Nielsen research, supported by a couple of Nielsen-owned research units.
Research units such as its recently created Institute for Frontier Medicine regularly break new ground.
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Some banks and regulators aim to break out research units, as Citigroup's Sandy Weill has offered, and institute a system to make the IPO process equitable.
The research firm now sees PC units up 5% in 2012, down from a previous forecast of 10.1%, reflecting not only the weak economy but also the impact of tight disk-drive supply due to the floods in Thailand.
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Chief marketing officers, research and development and other business units were using the cloud cloud computing to get their work done.
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Research firm IDC says Palm scored 31% of the U.S. smartphone market in 2005, up from 18% in 2004, but competing units from Motorola, Research in Motion and Nokia are breathing down Palm's neck.
To that end he is changing the structure of the research labs, from monoliths to smaller units that are either entrepreneurial (racing to develop a drug) or exploratory (looking for new biology to study).
That tops Research in Motion's 12.1 million units sold, as Jobs was quick to note.
Gallup's research is based on the performance of the different units and surveys of how contented their employees were.
Worldwide mobile phone sales fell 3.1% in the third quarter from a year ago, market research firm Gartner reports, to almost 428 million units.
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Smartphone shipments topped PCs for the first time ever last year, by 73 million units, according to figures published by research firm Canalys on Friday.
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At an event here, Jeff Clarke, senior vice president and general manager of the Dell business product group, said the new models represent a million man-hours of research, more than 3, 200 prototype test units and feedback from more than 4, 000 customers.
At an event here, Jeff Clarke, senior vice president and general manager of the Dell (nasdaq: DELL - news - people ) business product group, said the new models represent a million man-hours of research, more than 3, 200 prototype test units and feedback from more than 4, 000 customers.
The research firm now sees industry wide sales of 364 million units this year and 404 million units next year.
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Data on Global Mobile Phone Units is taken from publicly released information by market research firm Gartner.
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Research firms underscored the two companies' divergent financial performance with units shipped.
BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--According to the latest research from Strategy Analytics, global tablet shipments reached 27 million units in the fourth quarter of 2011.
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Meanwhile, global desktop and laptop shipments slipped 12.7 percent year-on-year to 78 million units in the first quarter 2013, according to research firm Gartner Inc.
Jesse Divnich, an analyst at research firm EEDAR, expects sales of Reach to exceed 3 million units in the first month in North America.
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And now some market research firms have predicted global tablet shipments are to top 80 million units 2012 with iPads accounting for 60 million units.
The UK-wide figures, which were compiled by construction research body Glenigan, indicated a total of 29, 100 residential units were approved during the second quarter of 2011.
Global mobile phone sales to end users totaled 419.1 million units in the first quarter, according to market research firm Gartner, down 2% from the year-earlier quarter.
Data on Global Mobile Phone Units Sold is taken from publicly released information by the market research firm Gartner.
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Research firm IDC expects notebook computer growth to hit 138.6 million units in 2008, surpassing 4.0% desktop computer growth at 26.0%.
Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster this morning responded to news of the launch event with a quick research note asserting that Apple could sell 6-10 million iPhone 5 units by the end of the month.
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IDC, a market research firm, estimates that annual tablet shipments will rise to around 46 million units by 2014.
Stifel Nicolas analyst Jordan Rohan in a new research lifted his estimate for the company fourth quarter Fire sales to 6 million units from 5 million.
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Confirming recent signs of weakness, the market research firm Gartner this afternoon said worldwide PC shipments totaled 87.5 million units in the third quarter, down 8.3% from the year-earlier quarter.
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The Boston-based brokerage firm Detwiler Fenton asserted in a research note this morning that the company is likely to sell less than 1 million units in the December quarter.
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"With new HP management, we expect to see change at division-level management, particularly in business units that have had poor relative performance, " Bachman said in a research report, indicating that the software division has struggled up until the current January quarter.
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