Sentences with phrase «from big consumer»

The UltraViolet initiative left the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week with an important new retail channel in Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN), a new marketing partnership to launch an upcoming ad blitz, and some splashy new hardware announcements from big consumer electronics brands including Samsung.

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The consumers are part of the big three credit bureau's estimate of 145.5 million people affected by the breach, a figure it marked up from an original September estimate of 143 million.

«The biggest benefit to me as a consumer is the zero friction and making that shopping experience a lot more transparent and customer - friendly from a choice standpoint.»

As you look across the robotics landscape, there are a number of notable names that may come to mind, from the «cute» robots that consumer electronics companies roll out for the holidays to the big acquisitions being made by Silicon Valley companies, including Google.

Roper last month said that retailers are being more cautious about their buying for hard seltzer after hard soda suffered from lagging interest from consumers after a big spike in demand when those products first hit shelves.

Big tech companies have had a fraught relationship with intelligence agencies in recent years, with prior revelations of surveillance programs leading to efforts to reassure consumers that their devices are safe from snoops.

«The biggest concern the regulators have is just that they don't want unsuspecting consumers to get caught up in something they're not familiar with, so they're always erring on the side of caution,» Stephen Innes, head of trading for Asia Pacific with Oanda Corp., said in a phone interview from Singapore.

He's said he'd take on Wall Street by breaking up the big banks and reinstating the Glass - Steagall Act, the Depression - era law that separated the speculative activities of banks from their consumer depository functions.

Much of the company's revenue is coming from licensing the technology to big customers such as Salesforce and Hootsuite, although consumer brands, financial institutions and PR agencies are also subscribing to its $ 99 - a-month direct service.

«The growth is driven by consumer trends rather than the classic push from big brewers,» says Jonnie Cahill, Heineken's senior director of low and no alcohol, citing an increasing interest on wellness and balance.

Globally, consumers will likely have three big giants in the form of Amazon, Apple and Google to choose from for e-books, with some other players like Kobo in the mix as well.

Their main effort centered on convincing people that all consumers benefit from the widest possible choice of products at the lowest possible price -; which means that consumers would be the biggest beneficiaries of lowered trade barriers.

The nation's leading food and beverage manufacturers — an industry collectively known as Big Food — have been busy reformulating legacy brands to be more competitive in a world in which consumers are gravitating away from highly processed foods and instead favoring fresher alternatives, like vegetables and fruits, that are found along the perimeter of the grocery store.

Americans consume $ 100 billion in gift cards every year, and 70 percent of consumers we surveyed said they would prefer to give a local gift than a traditional gift card from a big brand.

Shteir offers an account of the crime's evolution from Elizabethan London, where the term «shoplifting» first appeared, through the present day, when the economic downturn is being linked to a big spike in consumer thefts — up 8.8 % in the U.S. in the first year of the Great Recession.

These alerts address a real need by consumers and will help them avoid bill surprise from data services, currently the biggest source of unanticipated charges.»

A Spotify subscription, which costs around $ 10 per month bought directly from the London - based company, would seem to be a clear draw for younger shoppers, who are both big consumers of music and more likely to be price - sensitive.

The biggest challenge to both concepts, however, might come from established chains finally waking up and realizing that consumers want truly healthful options, not 1,500 - calorie mega-salads.

Factor in competition from major department stores elbowing into the discount retail space and a drop in consumer shopping and you've got a recipe for a big steaming pot of financial ruin.

The bigger issue for the retailer is everyone coming in with their two cents on what Target should have done to prevent this breach, including two U.S. senators seeking investigations from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Federal Trade Commission.

Assuming the kinks are ever worked out, one big question is whether the voice platforms from Amazon, Google, and the like will become useful enough for consumers to overlook any concerns of walled gardens.

At the end of the day, though, the biggest threat to Canada might likely come not from financial markets, but from what a debt ceiling breach would do to U.S. consumer and business confidence and thus the pace of growth south of the border.

Its Entertainment and Devices division, which houses all its gaming business and consumer phones, took a big hit last quarter, but operating income more than doubled from 2010 to 2011, to US$ 1.3 billion on revenues of US$ 8.9 billion.

Kroger (KR), the nation's largest supermarket chain, on Friday is expected to report second - quarter revenue that outpaces Wall Street's forecasts as the company has expanded its organic foods offerings to offset the consumer shift away from big box stores.

What stands out about it for now is that its business model — backed by some big money — is a radical rethinking of what consumers want from an online shopping experience.

We've tested several mattresses from direct - to - consumer, bed - in - a-box mattress startups over the past few years to see how they stack up in comparison with big - name mattress brands.

PARIS, Feb 8 - L'Oreal, the world's biggest beauty products company, said demand for its luxury labels like Lancome helped lift sales growth in the fourth quarter, while strong appetite from Asian consumers offset a trickier U.S. market.

It is a giant in the field of «big data» as it gathers information about consumers on everything from where they live to what car they drive and what they buy.

These winners from the annual Product of the Year awards are capitalizing on some of the biggest consumer trends right now

When you ask the world's big money makers in typical big brand consumer businesses to discuss how they are making money from big data, though, the message can be about as hard to decipher for the average individual as combing through Internet chatter from Pakistan.

King believes it may be hard for any big corporation to have serious collaboration cred because the decision makers are so far removed from consumers.

Taobao is a closer equivalent to eBay, where customers can buy from one another, while big brands sell directly to consumers through the Tmall portal.

And that has left Emotiv with a challenge every bit as big as conquering mind reading: figuring out how to present its breakthrough device to the world in a way that will transform it from a slightly scary gadget to the next must - have consumer technology.

The company is getting squeezed from both the enterprise and consumer sides, and it's going through a difficult transition from scrappy startup to a bigger company with more bureaucracy.

The move from flash - frozen to fresh beef is just the latest step by McDonald's, one of the biggest buyers of beef in the U.S., to lure in consumers who increasingly say they want fresh, unprocessed food and are giving less weight to fat and calories when considering health and more to sourcing and provenance.

One rabble - rouser, Arianna Huffington, has concocted a remarkable stunt, which she calls the Move Your Money Project, to rally consumers to transfer their deposits from big banks to small community banks across the U.S. Alas, there's no run yet on Citigroup

Given that Apple Watch's biggest criticism has been its design aesthetics, offering an upscale version with Hermes handmade leather straps and an exclusive watch face ups the cool factor considerably, extending the reach of the Apple Watch from techies to more fashion conscious consumers.

Healthcare's piece in the consumer spending pie has grown for years, up from 15 percent in 1990, and it remains a big concern especially as baby boomers enter their retirement years.

With an MBA, thanks to a Dream BIG scholarship from University of Phoenix and the NRF Foundation, she plans to equip herself with the skills needed to work with Sur La Table's consumer development team on child - centric tools and family - oriented digital initiatives.

The facts are not right here, energy is cheap that means the cost of manufacturing and transporting of goods is low, food and consumers staples already more affordable, so what if a few American oil companies going out of business.the cost of producing oil in middle east is less than $ 10 / bl and we were paying more than $ 140 / bl for it, with that huge profit margin the big oil companies and oil producing nations became richer and the rest of us left behind, with the oil price this low the oil giants don't want to reduce the price at pump even a penny, because they are so greedy.worst case scenario is some CEOs bonuses might drop from $ 20 million to $ 15 millions I am sure they will survive.in terms of the stock market it always bounces back, after all it's just a casino like game.

The company has been able to attract big - name advertisers like Gatorade and New Balance by offering access to its direct - to - consumer service that boasts a subscriber base full of athletes with clearly - defined interests, who could be more likely to buy athletic equipment and related products from specific sports.

Big food companies from Nestle to Taco Bell were axing artificial ingredients from their products left and right as consumers demanded «natural» foods, but would the changes affect the taste of the iconic blue box, a product that many Americans have grown up on?

While IoT is a very low - margin business compared to other digital consumer services like mobile phones, Nokia notes that healthcare is one of the big opportunities, citing analysts» forecasts of market CAGR of 37 %, making it «the fastest growing health care segment from 2015 - 2020.»

The biggest obstacle is the mostly terrible quality ratings from Consumer Reports and J.D. Power.

From film enthusiasts to gamers and theme park attendees, Chinese consumers represent a huge fan base and an even bigger disposable income.

China is becoming a key market for global oil exporters as surging output from shale fields from Texas to North Dakota allows the U.S., the biggest crude consumer, to rely less on overseas supplies.

Among other requirements, the Indian government requires big - box retailers selling to Indian consumers get 30 percent of the goods they sell from local Indian sources.

Smaller, independent brands are seen by many consumers, especially younger ones, to be more hip and healthy and rather than compete with them many big food and drink companies have looked to buy into and learn from startup innovation, a leaf straight out of Silicon Valley's playbook.

Wealthy families are now buying big into Bitcoin as a means to protect their assets from currency controls and rising consumer prices.

«With a stellar team of big data and open source veterans from companies including Hortonworks, MongoDB and MapR, Dremio is the first company to solve this challenge by empowering data consumers — business analysts and data scientists — to be independent and self - directed in their use of data, from any source and at any scale, using their favorite tools.