As part of its 25th anniversary, CNBC is creating a definitive list of people who have had the greatest influence in
business over the past quarter century.
Not exact matches
Walmart's latest online strategy comes as it hit a snag in its e-commerce
business for the critical fiscal fourth
quarter, after enjoying a surging e-commerce
business over the
past few
quarters that helped lift its stock.
Business surveys report that current inflationary pressures have firmed
over the
past quarter, and that expectations of future price growth are also being adjusted upwards.
The upswing in
business investment seen
over the
past three years continued in the September
quarter, with expenditure rising by 1.2 per cent (Graph 27).
Following falls
over the
past two and a half years,
business investment recorded an increase of 1.7 per cent in the June
quarter (Graph 4).
More than half (57 percent) said the national economy has improved
over the last year, and about a
quarter of
business owners said their
businesses had benefited a great deal from the improved national economy
over the
past year.
The bookseller has generated
over $ 73 million from the Nook
business unit in the
past two
quarters and they could potentially turn things around.
Although the company's BlackBerry franchise has long been a stalwart for
business users, aggressive smartphone pushes by both Apple and Google have steadily eroded its market - share in the United States
over the
past few
quarters.
The rise of Yahoo
over the
past few
quarters is largely due to unlocking the value from Alibaba not the core
business, I don't really see it as a darling.
Over the
past four
quarters, the same category in which AWS resides logged $ 4.8 billion in sales, and I have to say the idea that IBM has a bigger cloud
business than AWS begs disbelief probably everywhere except in IBM's Armonk, New York headquarters.
Unlike the common trend in other
business centres
over the
past year, vacancy rates in Calgary were on the rise, going from 3.20 per cent in the last
quarter of 2007 to 3.50 per cent in the third
quarter of 2008, says the report.
Cap rates for central
business district office properties dropped about 100 basis points
over the
past six months to average 6.5 % at the close of the third
quarter.
NEW YORK (Reuters)- Real estate brokers scoff that just a fraction of U.S. office space is occupied by co-working and other flexible workspace options, yet data shows
over one -
quarter of new leases signed in the
past two years came from this burgeoning
business.