Sentences with phrase «consumer company uses»

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The company boasted it could develop psychological profiles of consumers and voters which was a «secret sauce» it used to sway them more effectively than traditional advertising could.

Small companies keep innovation at the very heart of their goings - on, using it to propel their business into the limelight, yet at the same time remaining sensitive to the needs and wants of their consumers.

Instead, they'll raise prices for U.S. companies that purchase imported steel used in aerospace and medical equipment, petroleum refining gear, heavy machinery, construction materials, and consumer products from soup cans to baby carriages.

A recent digital wallet survey conducted by data analytics company Thrive Analytics, reported on by trade publication Payments Source on Wednesday, shows that while 80 percent of consumers are aware that digital wallets exist, less than one third use one.

Why you should care: Oscar, which officially launched in New York City in January, aims to use technology to create a better, more consumer - friendly health insurance company.

But just because a company has the technical ability to use facial recognition — as an example — it's not necessarily something that's in their best interest when it comes to building trust with consumers.

CVS Health CEO Larry Merlo said that, «[I] t's really the perfect time to bring these two companies together, to create a new healthcare platform that can be easier to use and less expensive for consumers, and really create a new front door to healthcare in our country.»

Companies relying on 1099 employees or private contractors regularly use quick - turnaround background check companies to provide consumers with a sense of Companies relying on 1099 employees or private contractors regularly use quick - turnaround background check companies to provide consumers with a sense of companies to provide consumers with a sense of security.

In other words, if the company notices a shift in local consumer tastes, it can fire off a batch of new garb from a nearby factory and get product on shelves many months faster than the old way — a supply chain triumph given that Levi works two years in advance and uses more than 1,000 different finishes in a season, which lasts six months.

Thanks to the recession, in 2009 consumers used coupons at a faster clip than they did the year before — the first increase in coupon redemption in 17 years, says a new study by Inmar Inc., a company that processes coupon transactions.

Our algorithms look at 450 popcorn companies across the country and score them on metrics around brand engagement — how often and quickly consumers talk about the brands, the sentiment, the word choice people use.

These companies have access to millions of consumers who use their products and services on a daily basis.

The company hopes to adapt its technology for retail and consumer use by 2018, meaning that a Tiffany & Co. (tif) shopper might one day be able to use a smartphone to determine a gem's provenance.

The firm will back companies developing technologies for industrial use, rather than the consumer and business software pursued by most venture capitalists.

«On the consumer side, it's very clear we are now in the age where the next $ 50 billion market cap company will be what we call a «hybrid» that uses both technology and operations from a human perspective.»

Other companies, like Michigan - based Green Spirit Farms and California - based Urban Produce, also sell to consumers using vertical farming methods, though The New Yorker reported in January that AeroFarms had twice the funding of any other indoor farming company — even before its recent $ 34 million round.

Phil Chen, founder of HTC's Vive, says consumer VR isn't dead yet — and companies using VR in health and at work are making real money.

The move comes as most food companies are finding ways to use healthier ingredients to satisfy changing consumer tastes.

Sold direct - to - consumer and funded by Kickstarter, the company is able to use premium materials and invest in research without having to add in the cost of middlemen.

Loblaw has followed suit of companies like Unilever, Johnson & Johnson, and P&G, which in 2013 announced the ban of phthalates and triclosan in its beauty and personal care products, in response to decade long pressure from activist groups prompting consumer goods company to stop using chemicals that have been linked to birth defects, cancer, diabetes and infertility.

Research released in September by communications company Digital Bridge said a third of consumers would be more likely to buy something after using mixed / augmented reality to preview products, but more than half think retailers are failing to take full advantage of the technology now available to them.

Another example is Austin, Texas - based software company Chaotic Moon, which has plans to use Oculus Rift to allow consumers to view and test - drive cars.

Last year, the company launched an own - branded Apple SIM card that allows consumers using its iPad tablet devices, but not its phones, to switch services between network operators.

«Consumers have the right to expect more, and the valuable information shared with companies should be used to build a more satisfying experience for the consumer,» he writes.

Consumer advocates would like to see the agency require every company involved in selling, buying, or collecting debts to ensure the integrity and accuracy of the information used in the process.

My company, WordStream, compiled all of the current Facebook ad targeting options in one epic infographic to demonstrate the breadth and depth of the personal information advertisers can use to target consumers via social media.

If the number of genuine consumers using social media isn't dwindling, there's an increasing sense that their level of interest is — and that they're finding more agreeable company in a growing constellation of more socially intimate mobile apps.

More companies are creating robotics for consumer use.

The reality is, and it's a sad one, consumers are used to receiving terrible service, so when your company responds to their requests in a timely manner — which means at minimum, the same day — they will be absolutely shocked and will have the perception that your company is one of a kind.

The next step for the apparel industry is customized fit, says Schmults: It will be common for consumers to use their computers or devices like Microsoft Kinect to scan their bodies, send the data to a clothing company and receive a tailored garment.

They know the next generation of consumers is using social media every day and use that fact to increase a company's Internet presence and brand awareness.

The recent enforcement of CalOPPA seems to have set the stage for the passage of the «Right to Know Act,» which would require companies to reveal to consumers what personal information they've collected and how it is being used.

Pai opposed online privacy regulations that force broadband providers to ask consumers for permission before using their data, saying they are more onerous than the requirements for internet companies like Google and Facebook.

«Platforms for participation» is a phrase Chase uses to describe Zipcar, the car - rental company she founded over a decade ago now that allows consumers to rent cars by the hour or the day.

Privacy policies let consumers know what information the company has access to and how the company intends to use that information, which gives consumers the option of opting out of any internet transaction that threatens their privacy.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has released its draft decision to accept CBH's proposal to replace its existing port access undertaking, which gives the company the option to enter into long term agreements with exporters who use its port services.

Sean Flynn, managing director of Shasta Ventures — a Silicon Valley firm that makes Series A investments in enterprise software, consumer internet companies and connected hardware devices — gets excited about mobile security, especially with so many employees using their own devices at work.

Gotlieb clarified that nobody at GroupM believes the company should be giving away personally identifiable information, but said that the practice of grouping and labeling a swath of individual consumers, known as audience profiling, «should be used as a good» to show consumers ads they are more likely to find useful.

In July the company also announced a customer - facing app called Kiipsake, which is a digital wallet consumers can use to store and redeem rewards earned from Kiip - enabled games and apps.

«As an investor, I think the ideas and discoveries coming out of biohacking will change the world,» says Scholnick, though he adds that companies concentrating in this market face a challenge in developing products that are easy for consumers to understand and use.

Further, Gotlieb said marketers and retailers need to do a better job of explaining to the public how the consumers themselves benefit when companies use their data in targeted advertising.

Oculus, the virtual reality company Facebook bought in 2014 for $ 2 billion, said on Wednesday that over one million people have used the Samsung Gear VR headset in April, which indicates that consumer use of virtual reality technology is growing.

The FTC charged Singapore - based mobile advertising company InMobi with tracking consumers» locations in cases when consumers had denied location - tracking permission to the apps using InMobi's software.

In other cases, a retailer may be targeting consumers who are using multiple touch points to interact with the company.

But a recent poll of consumers who use social networks suggests just how easy it is for companies to unwittingly convince people to click that invisible, but oh so potent, «hate» button.

SAN FRANCISCO, April 19 - A venture capital firm aiming to bring more U.S. startups to Russia has raised a $ 200 million fund, hoping to use the fresh pool of money to help Silicon Valley companies deliver their services to Russia's biggest corporations and its millions of internet - connected consumers.

As with virtually every area of its business, the company isn't so interested in selling things to consumers as it is in getting them online and using its services, with the money coming from the ads it serves them that way.

The first thing that's changed is that Consumer Internet and Genomics are Driving Innovation at scale In the 1950's and» 60's U.S. Defense and Intelligence organizations drove the pace of innovation in Silicon Valley by providing research and development dollars to universities, and defense companies built weapons systems that used the Valley's first microwave devices and semiconductor components.

It hasn't been worth mining bitcoin using standard consumer computer hardware for years because of the kind of processing power involved; the overwhelming majority of ordinary members of public pools will have bought hardware from companies like KnCMiner.

A company spokesman told The Wall Street Journal that 3D Systems intends to bring the technology to consumers rather than keeping it solely for commercial use.