The success Groupon and its competitors has inspired the creation of a second market for unwanted and excess deals.
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The market's chief executive, Massimo Capuano, has plenty of ambition to lure more, not least through a special second market for smaller enterprises.
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Shares of other sizzling private companies, like Zynga, Twitter, LinkedIn and Pandora, are also for sale through the special purpose LLCs or on sites like SharesPost and Second Market.
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The spokeswoman said 24 of 38 battery swapping stations are operational in Israel and 12 of 18 in Denmark, its second market, with each country adding two or three stations a week.
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While that momentum could continue, with Resch claiming the industry could double in size in 2011 to become the second market in the world, it only produces half of one percent (0.5%) of U.S. energy consumption.
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They would rather see looser listing requirements at traditional stock exchanges (as is happening in Singapore), an Asia-wide second market linking many of the smaller exchanges, or even Nasdaq itself extended fully to Asia, with 24-hour trading and local listings.
However, confirming what Venture Capitalists know well, Japan still is the second-largest mobile market in terms of revenues, plus the second-largest advertising market with an accelerating pick-up in e-commerce, especially among high-spending young adults (even Rakuten, a high-flying Japanese domestic e-commerce site, is flush with cash and looking to expand to foreign markets).
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One possibility is that one sales force will market products to doctors who specialize in MDS, and a second will market products that treat multiple myeloma.
An increase in alcohol taxes in France, the second biggest market, helped to explain a 14% drop there.
The total is expected to nearly double next year, leap-frogging Indonesia for the title of second largest market.
The company has 118 outlets in the United Kingdom, its second biggest market outside the U.S. after China.
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Further, in Japan, our second largest market, we generated 19% operational growth enterprise-wide.
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Bosnia, for example, is the second biggest market for Croatian exports after Italy.
Mr Mifano jokes that the New York Stock Exchange is Brazil's second biggest market, with 32 Brazilian firms listed.
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This was quite a smart move by the company as Japan is the second biggest market in the world.
Disney Infinity builds on the success of the popular Skylanders franchise but will being second to market hamper its success?
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That is why America's Treasury insisted on pushing a second, market-based, approach.
Sales of premium cars in China hit 1.25 million vehicles in 2012, making it the second biggest market in the world after the United States.
As said, currently Rackspace is a distant second in market share for Infrastructure As A Service, a business that will most likely see margins squeezed.
Being second to market in a new product category means you are judged more harshly, as Rockband was, because families have already got used to the novelty.
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Looks like a good start here (especially for the second hand market, of course), but let's see if the Chinese consumers will see an effective change at the stores.
Meanwhile smartphone shipments to India grew by 75% in the second half of 2012 from the first half, and the country is the second biggest market for the Android operating system.
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This is probably the hottest ticket in college football too as you could buy a really nice HDTV for what a decent set of tickets to this are going for on the second hand market.
It started with the final stages of a big bull market, then we got the second biggest bear market since the Great Depression, a five-year bull market in which stocks over doubled, the biggest bear market since the Great Depression, and the massive start of a new bull.
They've done a spectacular job for their clients and we continue--we're very excited about, one, we're excited about the region and two, we're excited to have a team of that quality doing real, on the ground research throughout China, which is, now, if you sort of look at the larger Chinese market, it's the second-largest market in the world, and there just aren't--there are many more world-class U.S. teams than there are world-class Chinese teams.
Nokia, by contrast, shipped 16.7 million units for a 15.2% share of the market during the second quarter, down from 23.8 million units for a 23.8% share of the market during the second quarter of 2010.
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China is currently the fastest-growing and second-largest luxury goods market in the world, second only to Japan.
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