Traffic for core products such as search and mail were down 24% and 12%, respectively, in December 2012 compared to December 2011.
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Since then, it has used its strength in chat in the first quarter about 750 million people used its service at least once a month to drive traffic to new products like videogames and social-media sites.
The heavy discounting of Apple products underscores the appeal of the iPhone, which retailers are using to drive traffic and sales of other products.
In particular, Google says, the service should help boost traffic to long-tail products.
Weak traffic and off-mark products led to slower than expected sales in May, when wet, chilly weather may have provided too weak inspiration for consumers to start shopping for summer items, analysts at RBC Capital Markets say.
The new paid search systems direct traffic to other in-stock products when supplies run low.
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For the long term, it hopes to achieve sales growth through higher traffic, a shift towards premium products and menu price increases.
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Mr. Warren Buffett has his finger on the pulse of the early 21st Century economy and his interests easily seem to switch between a belief in resurgent rail traffic and faith in consumer food products.
Magellan has established an internal division to oversee its mobile software products and recently added lifetime traffic data to its most expensive app.
Due to the shift in sales mix towards cheaper products and lower in store traffic, we expect the comparable store sales growth to remain under pressure.
As Facebook would tell you now, static figures are misleading because they overlook how quickly new ideas and better products can build market share and traffic on the Internet.
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Manufacturers and retailers have taken advantage of the customer acceptance and strong traffic in off-price malls by making their products available.
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It is enjoying increased traffic in high-value technology items and in health-care products (an area in which all four firms are developing specialist divisions).
About 60% of the traffic to Hearst digital goes to standalone brands like RealBeauty (beauty products), eSpin (a teen social community) and DailyGreen (organic food purveyor).
"That traffic still benefits the handmade community, " by bringing buyers to their products as well, he says.
Most of the products we tested offer only three security settings: block all traffic, allow some traffic, and provide no security at all.
Typically located in high-traffic regional shopping malls and airports, the stores feature unique and innovative consumer products.
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Long known for their Denial of Service Defense and Intrusion Prevention products, Corero has learned much about the dirty nature of Internet traffic over the last decade.
After Thursday's announcement, those links will eventually appear above the main search results page with larger images of relevant products, suggesting the shopping site could see a bump in Web traffic.
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Thailand is also a good market for the criminal gangs that traffic the ivory because it is a popular tourist destination with weak laws governing the sale of ivory products and lax policing, according to Huijbregts.
It wants to stock your brand to build traffic to its stores, but it really wants the consumer to buy Wal-Mart's private-label products once they get there, because they are far more profitable for the retailer.
As well as persuading people to visit sites carrying PepsiCo products, the experiment with Foursquare has also given the firm useful data about, for example, foot traffic to stores, which it can use to tailor promotions.
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