Sentences with phrase «research firms ended»

Some of the market research firms ended up getting lazy and if you perform well in one focus group they start inviting you back for other similar projects.

«If ebooks can work for anyone, they are going to work for Harry Potter», said Joseph Evans, a technology analyst for media market research firm Enders Analysis.

Douglas McCabe, a media expert at the research firm Enders, reckons e-readers will continue to fall out of favour but that older readers would remain fans, not least because of the appeal of being able to «make the font bigger».

Not exact matches

Once dominant in the smartphone industry, the company has lost significant ground to the competition: RIM's chunk of the U.S. market dropped to just 12 % by year - end from 44 % in 2007, according to research firm Strategy Analytics.

The end - to - end manufacturing hype ignores 3D printing's cost and speed limitations says Duncan Stewart, Head of Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT) Research at Deloitte Canada, and author of the consulting firm's much - cited annual TMT Predictions report.

However, Zynga (znga) reported bookings of $ 196.7 million in the quarter ended Sept. 30, beating analysts» estimate of $ 189 million, according to research firm FactSet StreetAccount.

Market research firm IDC has forecast the shift will produce as many as seven million global positions by the end of 2015.

Target - date funds are growing in popularity: As much as $ 700 billion was invested in target - date funds at the end of 2014, according to investment research firm Morningstar, up from roughly $ 600 billion the year prior.

One ugly estimate from research firm BayStreet said Essential only sold 5,000 phones by the end of September.

The Taoyuan City - based firm has been attempting to refocus its growth prospects on the high - end VR business, with shipments of the Vive headset totalling more than 190,000 units in the first quarter, according to research firm IDC.

We asked the New York research firm Estimize to crowdsource an estimate among financial pros of where the S&P 500 would end up at the end of 2016.

Independent bond research firm Gimmie Credit downgraded the debt of the giant chemical company on Tuesday, saying Peltz's pressure may end up forcing DuPont's executives to do something «materially harmful» to the company.

At the end of 2012, when I heard about bitcoin, I had been working as a freelance consultant for about a year after burning out of my previous work as a partner in a research firm.

Among 7,410 portfolio managers of U.S. open - end mutual funds, only 9 percent were women, the study released this month by researchers from Morningstar Inc of Chicago, and widely discussed at the research firm's investor conference this week, found.

Research firm Gartner predicts that 6.4 billion devices will be connected to the internet by the end of this year, and Cisco forecasts 50 billion devices will be online by 2020.

Such discounting is now being done with 46 percent of all bills of exchange, up from 20 percent at the end of 2013, according to research firm CreditSights.

The debt moratorium will cause Puerto Rico to default; but the missed payments, as per the bill, will still be due when the moratorium ends, said Daniel Hanson, an analyst at Height Securities, a research firm that focuses on geopolitical and regulatory investment risk.

I did some research and read that the flakes take longer to dissolve and thicken but still the end result was not as firm as your cheese.

To Barton's point, retail sales data from IRI, a Chicago - based market research firm, show sales of most shelf - stable dry packaged sides and canned soups were down or relatively flat during a 52 - week tracking period ended Dec. 31, 2017.

«I think it will be hard to distinguish the core features of a new Xbox versus a PS4, and at the end of the day it comes down to marketing the message that your system is better,» said David Cole, chief executive of market research firm DFC Intelligence.

These include government or private nonprofit funders of basic research, such as the National Institutes of Health in the United States or the Wellcome Trust in the United Kingdom; academic scientists; multinational pharmaceutical firms and smaller biotech companies; and, at the end of the line, government regulatory agencies responsible for drug approval.

For instance, eHarmony, a prominent online - dating service, touts the results of a survey conducted on its behalf by Harris Interactive, a market - research firm, that concludes it was responsible for an average of 542 people getting married every day in America between the start of 2008 and the end of June 2009.

By the end of 2013, there will be 1.1 billion smartphones, with annual sales of 300 million units, according to research firm Parks Associates Industries.

By the end of 2013, there will be 1.1 billion smartphones with annual sales of 300 million units, according to the research firm Parks Associates Industries.

Hildick - Smith, whose New York - based company is a book audience research and pre-publication book testing firm, said that e-book sales peaked in the first quarter of 2014 and are now actually dropping, as evidenced by the results for the quarter ending September 2015.

Xiaomi had a market share of 25 percent at the end of Q4 2017, according to research firm Canalys.

Market research firm ABI Research predicts that tablet shipment is expected to reach 200 million units by end of 2014, which will mark a 20 percent increase in sales for tresearch firm ABI Research predicts that tablet shipment is expected to reach 200 million units by end of 2014, which will mark a 20 percent increase in sales for tResearch predicts that tablet shipment is expected to reach 200 million units by end of 2014, which will mark a 20 percent increase in sales for the year.

The research firm also stated the segment could end up registering just single digit growth rate by 2017, from the present 53.3 percent.

Amazon won't give out sales figures, but Forrester Research, a market - analysis firm, reckons Amazon will sell 3.5 million Kindles in the United States this year, bringing its total number in U.S. readers» hands to 6 million by the end of 2010.

Back in June, in fact, research firm IDC revealed that it believes Apple will own 62.5 percent of the tablet market by the end of this year, up from 58.2 percent last year.

Take for the instance the latest finding of the Hong Kong based research firm CLSA that claims the Apple tablet sales figure could end up being 14.4 million in the third quarter, a considerable improvement over the 10 to 12 million that was earlier projected.

Kindle Fire joins a crowded tablet market dominated by Apple's iPad, which is projected to have a 73.4 % market share by the end of the year, according to research firm Gartner.

Kindle Fire joins a tablet market dominated by Apple's iPad, which is projected to have a 73.4 % market share by year end, according to research firm Gartner.

Google's Android operating system gained US smartphone market share in the quarter which ended in July while Blackberry maker Research in Motion, Apple and Microsoft lost ground, digital tracking firm comScore said.

A recent report from market research firm Juniper Research predicts that e-reader shipments will reach 67 million per year by 2016, far above the 25 million e-readers expected to ship by the end research firm Juniper Research predicts that e-reader shipments will reach 67 million per year by 2016, far above the 25 million e-readers expected to ship by the end Research predicts that e-reader shipments will reach 67 million per year by 2016, far above the 25 million e-readers expected to ship by the end of 2011.

Consumer technology hardware sales in the United States fell 0.5 % percent in 2011, ending the year just shy of $ 144 billion according to market research firm The NPD Group.

When Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet begins shipping to end users on November 15th, it will have the potential to «radically redraw the media tablet market» according to market research and intelligence firm IDC.

Prior to joining the firm, Chris did research for Foothill Group, an investment management company specializing in distressed debt, and he worked at La Jolla - based Multiple Peptide Systems where he marketed custom molecules to research institutions and other end - users (1989 — 1992).

The country's largest ETF provider now has 10 funds with a history that goes back to at least 2001, and according to the research firm Fundata, six of them were first quartile performers for the decade ending June 30, 2011.

As of the end of the third quarter, the average fund in the same category as Pimco Total Return had more than one - third of assets in bonds with maturities of 20 years or more, according to data from Chicago - based research firm Morningstar Inc..

The latest available data by global research firm Cerulli Associates indicate that by the end of the third quarter of 2015, the eight largest managed account providers had a total of $ 180.6 billion in assets under management, marking a 34 % increase from the same period in 2013.

According to condo research firm Urbanation, there were roughly 15,552 unsold Toronto condo units on the market as of the end of March.

In contrast, any Wall Street firm can publish «research reports» making unsubstantiated claims (e.g., «Apple's share price will hit $ 1,000 by the end of the year»).

The authors of the study point to other regulatory and legislative acts, including the «order precedence rule,» commonly known as the «Manning Rule» after a legal case against Charles Schwab, the Gramm - Leach - Bliley Act, which saw the end of the Glass - Steagall Act of 1933 and formally allowed the combination of commercial banks, securities firms and insurance companies, Regulation Fair Disclosure, which devalued stock research, and the Global Settlement ruling, which has made research coverage tougher for issuers to secure.

LONDON — July 13, 2016 — ETFGI the leading independent research and consultancy firm on trends in the global ETF / ETP ecosystem, today reported assets invested in ETFs / ETPs listed in the United States reached a new record high US$ 2.256 trillion at the end of June 2016, according to preliminary data from ETFGI's June 2016 global ETF and ETP industry insights report (click here to view the ETFGI asset growth chart for US listed ETFs / ETPs).

LONDON — October 19, 2016 — ETFGI, the leading independent research and consultancy firm on trends in the global ETF / ETP ecosystem, today reported assets invested in ETFs / ETPs listed globally reached a new record high US$ 3.408 trillion at the end of Q3 2016.

LONDON — October 20, 2016 — ETFGI, the leading independent research and consultancy firm on trends in the global ETF / ETP ecosystem, today reported assets invested in ETFs / ETPs listed in the United States reached a new record high US$ 2.416 trillion at the end of Q3 2016.

Ihor Dusaniwsky, head of research at S3 Partners, a financial analytics firm, says that short interest has more than doubled since the end of March to equivalent of $ 787 million.

LONDON — June 9, 2016 — ETFGI the leading independent research and consultancy firm on trends in the global ETF / ETP ecosystem, today reported assets invested in ETFs / ETPs listed globally reached a new record high US$ 3.143 trillion at the end of May 2016, according to preliminary data from ETFGI's May 2016 global ETF and ETP industry insights report.

On the business front, Brian Donahue, a partner at CRAFT — a political consulting and public affairs firm — discussed the dos and don'ts of digital brand management, and Nathan Richter of Wakefield Research book - ended his popular presentation on marketing to Millennial pet owners with a presentation on older pet owners.