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Duncan said the strongest trends his company sees in these development initiatives are in the growth of service-oriented software architectures, subscription-based software sales and industry-specific standards in areas such as radio frequency tags and cellular telephony standards.

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Hot Topic, in the midst of restructuring its merchandise strategy to appeal to a younger and more pop-culture-oriented market, also missed expectations, reporting a sales increase of 0.4%, under the 1.7% estimate.

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Even then, marketers will have to see solid results in either the brand-oriented metrics such as intent to buy or in sales driven directly from the ad before they move big budgets toward Twitter.

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With smartphones having recently outpaced laptops in volume sales, Mobile is no longer an adjunct or spinoff for online laptop-oriented efforts.

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By the time Donahoe's succession was announced in January of this year, he was returning to those "convenience-oriented buyers" and talking up Ebay as a channel for fixed-price sales.

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