Great swathes of farmland in northern China devoted to growing wheat will over time shift to high-value crops, such as vegetables and fruit.
The reason why smartphones are subsidized by carriers in return for long-term contracts is that smartphone users are widely recognized as heavy data users and bring a higher life-time value to carriers.
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CBS, shows just how valuable NFL rights have become for broadcasters, which view high-profile live sports as the key element to maintaining their value at a time when consumers have an ever-growing number of entertainment options.
Why not give them a way to connect with their groups inside and outside of work to make all of their life easier to manage, leaving more time to focus on value-added tasks at work.
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Rics blamed the worsening affordability on the reduction in the loan-to-value ratios lenders were prepared to offer first-time buyers, and the "continued burden" of stamp duty and professional fees.
As cloud computing surges into the mainstream of business-technology strategies and deployments, plenty of questions are still swirling around regarding security, time to value, public versus private, lock-in, cost, and more.
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This is particularly true in the U.S. technology market, where the rapid pace of innovation results in a very short period of time during which start-ups offer strategic value to potential buyers.
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Movea's unique motion processing capabilities enable customers and partners to quickly add motion intelligence to their products, meaning reduced risk, cost, and Time-to-Market for delivering compelling new motion-based features that create more end-user value.
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However, due to higher silver prices, the dollar value of silver investment rose sharply to an all-time high.
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The yield on dividend-paying equities is at or near all-time highs, relative to Treasuries, and I think represents a pretty good value right now in the marketplace.
They are simply too slow and do not allow sellers to provide potential buyers real-time pre-sale value (information).
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Over time business resale values tend to be similar to small-cap value companies that trade on the stock exchange.
We attempt to add value through our proprietary and time-tested research methodology, which presumes a long holding period over a complete market cycle.
In the age of the Internet, it is time to recognize that very little is private any more and the value of carefully managed disclosure to a well-targeted group of sophisticated investors far outweighs any real or perceived cost of such disclosure.
Mobile devices allow real -time decision support by enabling users to check the caloric value of foods and activities and track energy balance in real time.
This is as investor I will know that if I have a personal cash shortage I will be able to sell out to another investor for something close to fair-value with a relatively short waiting time.
At the same time, property-owners in much of the north of England continue to see the value of their home decline.
It's a great value for first-time Wii owners who just want to jump in and experience all the great Wii games that helped usher in a revolution in motion-controlled gaming.
Homebuyers with the time, skill and experience to conduct large-scale renovations will find these properties a better value.
Most of these business assets cost time and money to build, and bring in little value in the short-term.
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But, says Jamie Nicholson of Warburg Dillon Reed, an investment bank, with car makers and other steel buyers increasingly looking for local suppliers to make just-in-time deliveries, the export potential of high-value products is not good.
They come to that conclusion presumably because revenue from the sale of Sun hardware has declined since the acquisition, and they lock on to that opinion in spite of the fact that Oracle executives at the time of the deal said they were going to eliminate unprofitable hardware products, low-value hardware products, and no-future hardware products in spite of the inevitable revenue impacts.
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It is time for both shareholders and taxpayers to assess the value of such conveniences for the well-to-do.
"We think it has growth potential but it needs capital - we want to build up the value of the enterprise through time, " he said.
Fluffing a company, pushing the limits of regulations, hyping the public are time-tested roads to fast money, though of course they contribute nothing in terms of value creation.
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It is time for CIOs to refocus and lead their teams toward breakthrough technology innovation, pre-empting new business value proposals for their company to deliver to the market.
That's not much, but in places like Miami, Phoenix and Las Vegas, homes have lost about a quarter of their value in the same amount of time, according to the Case-Shiller index.
On average. first-time buyers still need to find a deposit of 20% of a home's value, but mortgage interest rates have dropped to very low levels.
In addition to those demand response dispatches, Constellation Energy was providing real-time market price information to many of its customers, thus giving them information on the value of curtailing energy use during the heat wave when power prices jumped.
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