Video games, electronics, and apps make up a combined 22 percent of kids» licensed product dollar sales in the U.S. * — on par with the volume represented by toys, which is the number one licensed industry at most retailers, according to the U.S. Kids License Report
from global information company The NPD Group.
PORT WASHINGTON, NEW YORK, March 6, 2013 — According to Core Gaming 2013, the latest report
from global information company, The NPD Group, within the US population ages 9 and older, almost half play video games on what would be considered a core gaming device, but only 14 percent, or 37.5 million people, would be considered a core gamer *.
According to the latest NPD BookScan information
from global information company The NPD Group, when it comes to holiday reading, families favor classics over brand new seasonal titles.
Not exact matches
Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially
from those reflected in such forward - looking statements and that should be considered in evaluating our outlook include, but are not limited to, the following: 1) our ability to continue to grow our business and execute our growth strategy, including the timing, execution, and profitability of new and maturing programs; 2) our ability to perform our obligations under our new and maturing commercial, business aircraft, and military development programs, and the related recurring production; 3) our ability to accurately estimate and manage performance, cost, and revenue under our contracts, including our ability to achieve certain cost reductions with respect to the B787 program; 4) margin pressures and the potential for additional forward losses on new and maturing programs; 5) our ability to accommodate, and the cost of accommodating, announced increases in the build rates of certain aircraft; 6) the effect on aircraft demand and build rates of changing customer preferences for business aircraft, including the effect of
global economic conditions on the business aircraft market and expanding conflicts or political unrest in the Middle East or Asia; 7) customer cancellations or deferrals as a result of
global economic uncertainty or otherwise; 8) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which we operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; 9) the success and timely execution of key milestones such as the receipt of necessary regulatory approvals, including our ability to obtain in a timely fashion any required regulatory or other third party approvals for the consummation of our announced acquisition of Asco, and customer adherence to their announced schedules; 10) our ability to successfully negotiate, or re-negotiate, future pricing under our supply agreements with Boeing and our other customers; 11) our ability to enter into profitable supply arrangements with additional customers; 12) the ability of all parties to satisfy their performance requirements under existing supply contracts with our two major customers, Boeing and Airbus, and other customers, and the risk of nonpayment by such customers; 13) any adverse impact on Boeing's and Airbus» production of aircraft resulting
from cancellations, deferrals, or reduced orders by their customers or
from labor disputes, domestic or international hostilities, or acts of terrorism; 14) any adverse impact on the demand for air travel or our operations
from the outbreak of diseases or epidemic or pandemic outbreaks; 15) our ability to avoid or recover
from cyber-based or other security attacks,
information technology failures, or other disruptions; 16) returns on pension plan assets and the impact of future discount rate changes on pension obligations; 17) our ability to borrow additional funds or refinance debt, including our ability to obtain the debt to finance the purchase price for our announced acquisition of Asco on favorable terms or at all; 18) competition
from commercial aerospace original equipment manufacturers and other aerostructures suppliers; 19) the effect of governmental laws, such as U.S. export control laws and U.S. and foreign anti-bribery laws such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the United Kingdom Bribery Act, and environmental laws and agency regulations, both in the U.S. and abroad; 20) the effect of changes in tax law, such as the effect of The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the «TCJA») that was enacted on December 22, 2017, and changes to the interpretations of or guidance related thereto, and the
Company's ability to accurately calculate and estimate the effect of such changes; 21) any reduction in our credit ratings; 22) our dependence on our suppliers, as well as the cost and availability of raw materials and purchased components; 23) our ability to recruit and retain a critical mass of highly - skilled employees and our relationships with the unions representing many of our employees; 24) spending by the U.S. and other governments on defense; 25) the possibility that our cash flows and our credit facility may not be adequate for our additional capital needs or for payment of interest on, and principal of, our indebtedness; 26) our exposure under our revolving credit facility to higher interest payments should interest rates increase substantially; 27) the effectiveness of any interest rate hedging programs; 28) the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting; 29) the outcome or impact of ongoing or future litigation, claims, and regulatory actions; 30) exposure to potential product liability and warranty claims; 31) our ability to effectively assess, manage and integrate acquisitions that we pursue, including our ability to successfully integrate the Asco business and generate synergies and other cost savings; 32) our ability to consummate our announced acquisition of Asco in a timely matter while avoiding any unexpected costs, charges, expenses, adverse changes to business relationships and other business disruptions for ourselves and Asco as a result of the acquisition; 33) our ability to continue selling certain receivables through our supplier financing program; 34) the risks of doing business internationally, including fluctuations in foreign current exchange rates, impositions of tariffs or embargoes, compliance with foreign laws, and domestic and foreign government policies; and 35) our ability to complete the proposed accelerated stock repurchase plan, among other things.
Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the
Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the
Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the
Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting
from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a
global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the
Company's
information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the
Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the
Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).
Chicago, March 6, 2017 — The use of mobile apps, text messages, and the internet to order food
from a restaurant or other foodservice outlets grew by 18 percent last year and now accounts for 1.9 billion foodservice visits, reports The NPD Group, a leading
global information company.
Delegates included spokespeople
from the OECD, MirandaNet, The Association for
Information Technology in Teacher Education (ITTE), and UNESCO, who were joined by representatives
from education
companies, associations, and universities
from around the world, aiming to develop a collaborative plan for improving
global education.
1974 > The internet «took off» 1990 > The invention of the web 1990 > The LINGUIST List 1991 >
From ASCII to Unicode 1994 > Travlang, travel and languages 1995 > The Internet Dictionary Project 1995 > NetGlos, a glossary of the internet 1995 > Various languages on our screen 1995 >
Global Reach, promoting localization 1996 > OneLook Dictionaries, a «fast finder» 1997 > 82.3 % of the web in English 1997 > The internet, a tool for minority languages 1997 > A European terminology database 1997 > Babel Fish, a free translation software 1997 > The tools of the translation
company Logos 1997 > Specialized terminology databases 1998 > The need for a «linguistic democracy» 1999 > Bilingual dictionaries in WordReference.com 1999 > The internet, a mandatory tool for translators 1999 > The need for bilingual
information online 2000 > Online encyclopedias and dictionaries 2000 > The web portal yourDictionary.com 2000 > Project Gutengerg and languages 2001 > Wikipedia, a collaborative encyclopedia 2001 > UNL, a digital metalanguage project 2001 > A market for language translation software 2004 > The web 2.0, community and sharing 2007 > The ISO 639 - 3 standard to identify languages 2007 > Google Translate 2009 > 6,909 languages in the Ethnologue 2010 > A UNESCO atlas for endangered languages
Below are some highlights
from the above linked analysis:
Company Description: IBM's
global capabilities include
information technology services, software, computer hardware equipment, fundamental research, and related financing.
«The better your credit score, the better the interest rate you can expect to receive
from lenders,» notes Maxine Sweet, vice president of public education for Experian, a
global information solutions
company.
Also
from Petfood Industry magazine... The magazine and its parent
company, WATT
Global Media, have relaunched PetfoodIndustry.com — an online industry resource for
information on pet food market data, pet nutrition, pet food safety and quality, pet food production and packaging.
We are thrilled to bring you a review of MadeIn
Company's recent exhibition in Shanghai
from our brand new partner ArtSpy, a website based in Beijing, P.R.China that is committed to establish a
global artistic
information platform.
Which doesn't mean to say that
companies and organisations with something to gain
from ignoring the «
global warming story» do not make very good use of the resultant contrarian
information!
They argue that this amounts to an attempt by the oil
company to hide
information about
global warming
from consumers.
A U.K. publishing
company used data
from EPI and other sources to produce a
global wall chart showing a variety of
information on biofuels.
DEC announced that it will treat
Global Companies» air permit renewal application for its Albany Terminal as an entirely new application due to newly discovered
information and environmental conditions, and will require additional
information and testing
from Global before it will issue a permit.
CDP — Collaborator cdp.net CDP is an international NGO that provides the only
global system through which more than 5,000
companies from more than 80 countries and 207 cities report, manage and share vital environmental
information.
RE100 members, including 30
Global Fortune 500
companies, have a total revenue of more than US$ 2.5 trillion and operate in a diverse range of sectors —
from Information Technology to automobile manufacturing.
The fact is if we required the same standard of
information from climate scientists that we do
from drug
companies, the whole debate on
global warming would be long over.
The TCFD recommendations draw
from existing climate change reporting frameworks such as the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) and the
Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Standards; it doesn't seek to force
companies to invest in yet another set of surveys or
information - gathering exercises.
Our
global reputation and defamation protection lawyers protect
companies, brands and individuals
from unfair reputational attacks that present an increasing threat in our competitive, 24 - 7 news and
information environment.
Through his
company Global Science Research, Kogan built and used a personality quiz Facebook application to collect data, including Facebook page likes, location, and basic personal
information,
from millions of Americans throughout 2014.
Responding to a notice last month
from the Centre, asking Facebook whether personal
information of any Indians was stolen as part of its
global data breach involving UK data firm Cambridge Analytica, the US - based social media
company on Thursday admitted that about 5.62 lakh users in India were «potentially affected».
Collins highlighted Nix's denial that he received data
from the
Global Science Research
company, the entity set up by a Cambridge academic who created the app blamed for harvesting
information from some 50 million Facebook accounts.
Forward - looking
information is subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements of the
Company to be materially different
from those expressed or implied by such forward - looking
information, including but not limited to: risks related to changes in cryptocurrency prices; the estimation of personnel and operating costs; general
global markets and economic conditions; risks associated with uninsurable risks; risks associated with currency fluctuations; competition faced in securing experienced personnel with appropriate industry experience and expertise; risks associated with changes in the financial auditing and corporate governance standards applicable to cryptocurrencies and ICO's; risks related to potential conflicts of interest; the reliance on key personnel; financing, capitalization and liquidity risks including the risk that the financing necessary to fund continued development of the
Company's business plan may not be available on satisfactory terms, or at all; the risk of potential dilution through the issuance of additional common shares of the
Company; the risk of litigation.