Sentences with phrase «research firms still»

But countless market research firms still seem to think smartwatches sales are indeed set to explode.

Not exact matches

Katz has hit on a growing — if still small — market, says Darren Seifer, a food and beverage industry analyst for the New York City - based research firm NPD Group.

But despite that, and giving up $ 41 million, Stumpf is still walking away with a pay package that goes into the nine figures, according to executive compensation research firm, Equilar, showing how large CEO pay packages are, even after executives are punished for significant mistakes.

«I call it the atomization of the economy,» says Birch, who now runs the research firm Cognetics, based in Waltham, Mass. «You're still looking at an explosion of entrepreneurship.»

The reason is that despite the small rebound of overall personal computer sales, as research firms like International Data Corporation have shown, HP Inc. is still facing challenges.

According to the research firm, there are a number of obstacles facing Apple Pay, including the fact that iPhone 6 penetration is still small among mobile users.

The vast majority of U.S. households still use traditional ground or instant coffee, and a survey by research firm Mintel found that about 36 percent of people who do not use single - cup brewers said these machines were too expensive.

JPMorgan, along with all of the other major Wall Street firms, is still allowed to issue research ratings on stocks despite the firms being charged by the Securities and Exchange Commission in 2003 in the epic research scandal on Wall Street.

Over the next decade, as many as half of all U.S. bank branches could still disappear, according to Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, a financial services research firm.

Research by McKinsey & Company, the global management consulting firm, shows that a strong majority of Canadian households are on track to maintain their standard of living in retirement, but that still leaves some gaps.

Still, Microsoft's number one priority must be its own strategy, according to Michael Gartenberg, an analyst at market - research firm Gartner.

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.

According to market research firm Mintel, there is still a real sense of «carbophobia» going on across the globe.

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.

Rob Allen, who was elected mayor last month and ran unopposed when Borge decided not to seek re-election, said he's still researching work the law firm and Behan Communications did for the village.

Although they are still dwarfed in most respects by the bulky lead - acid batteries found in almost every car on the road today, in 2015, lithium - ion batteries will account for around a third of the money spent on rechargeable batteries globally (see «Turn it on»), and just under a sixth of the total energy stored, according to French research firm Avicenne.

This budget shift still won't come close to solving the problem, says Marco Caceres, a senior space analyst at the Teal Group, an aerospace and defense research firm.

Well, I guess there's no easy answer except to say that, whilst still keeping on top of our primary research, we somehow need to amass other, possibly unrelated, results that are a) firm enough not to vanish into the ether at the third replicate and b) novel enough to warrant your favourite funding body throwing a quarter of a million at it.

This opinion is echoed by Stephen Dunn, director of research at Boca Raton, Fla., securities firm Dawson James: «The embryonic stem cell scene still is in that science phase.»

Giving Apple still another accolade, DisplaySearch said Apple was the top - selling mobile PC shipper during the fourth quarter of 2010, in a Feb. 16 report in which it - like research firm Canalys - decided the time was right to begin folding figures for tablets into mobile PC tallies.

The research firm says that iPads are still leading the way, with a chart - topping 14.1 million units sold last quarter, but that Apple's market share fell to 29.6 percent within that time frame.

While there will still always be a niche for active management with a proven track record or strategies that an ETF can't employ (which are few), as outflows continue, the cost structure of many of the largest mutual funds will become less attractive and firms will have to either continue to run them as loss leaders, increase add spending — or actually outperform benchmarks, which decades of research has shown to be very difficult.

That also seems to be a major theme of your post and it is interesting to think about how both (the Efficent Market hypothesis and trading) can be true, i.e. prices can be reflective of information, retail investors can benefit from the research done by firms and yet still there may be opportunities to invest profitably.

November 2009 by Wayne Thorp Despite the stock market's recent wild ride, many still believe that stocks are the best investment vehicle available — including Charles Kirkpatrick, president of Kirkpatrick & Co., a technical research firm, and publisher of the Kirkpatrick Market Strategist.

A new carbon tax calculator from the research firm E3 lets you model carbon tax rates in a national setting; in one test scenario a flat $ 5 per ton carbon tax still generates about a 6 % CO2 reduction.

Martin Hoerling, a research meteorologist with NOAA's Earth System Research Laboratory, thinks it's still too early to draw firm conclusions about the cause of the Texas heresearch meteorologist with NOAA's Earth System Research Laboratory, thinks it's still too early to draw firm conclusions about the cause of the Texas heResearch Laboratory, thinks it's still too early to draw firm conclusions about the cause of the Texas heat wave.

Jacob did some research and found that McCarthy's had acted for Northland and its underwriters on several transactions while Mr. Heintzman was still a partner of the firm.

Expressed in that way, the research retrieval system does not sound that bad, because the fee was reduced for the second client but the level of profitability for the firm remained the same (assuming that the associate had other work to do and that the firm still collected the same hourly rate for the time spent).

Our discussion this time around focused on the frustration some research lawyers still feel in their role not being fully understood by others in their law firm or by clients.

The research, based on the most recent accounts filed with Companies House (which cover the 2014 - 15 financial year rather than the 2015 - 16 figures still being announced by some firms), ranks the 47 firms within the UK top 50 that are registered as LLPs, on a host of metrics.

Research published three months ago revealed that at the time, three quarters of law firms were still unprepared for the GDPR, potentially opening them up to large penalties.

Still, FindLaw research has identified some useful general patterns, and this next one is particularly important for those law firms interested in serving the Spanish - language market.

The programme will give students a foundation in LRW that still leaves lots of room for our instructors in the upper year Advanced LRW classes, and our law firm librarian and research lawyer colleagues to build on.

It is perhaps more comparable to the firm's usage fees for legal research facilities such as Westlaw, which would naturally still demand a junior lawyer to pore over what the search engine could find, read through it and isolate the key issues in the text.

If all your reviews and trust signals across the web are positive towards your firm, then your potential can do their research and they will still pick you.

Despite our best efforts, our colleagues in the law firms still complain about summer and articling students» lack of research skills.

Moreover, the research firm also coughed up other details about the screen, such as the lack of a physical home button in place of virtual on - screen buttons, which in the end will render a more compact handset — in fact, even with its large display, the overall device footprint might still be the same as the 4.7 - inch iPhone 7, instead of the Plus model.

Still contending with the fallout from its leak of data to Trump - linked research firm Cambridge Analytica, Facebook on Wednesday announced a series of changes to its service designed to limit the amount of data on its users that developers can access.

Research firm IHS claims that activity at display suppliers in Asia indicates Microsoft might still be working on a Surface Mini tablet for a launch later this year.

«To be sure, many Blockchain projects globally are still in their infancy, but the complexity of Chinese bank legacy systems could make it even tougher to apply the technology successfully,» said Zennon Kapron, founder of market research firm Kapronasia.

The feature phone is still the preferred device for many, and smartphones prices haven't really come down as drastically, according to the research firm.

The latest numbers from research firm Net Applications show that the combined market share of Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 in the PC market are still well behind that of Windows 7 and the now support-less Windows XP.

Last month an independent research firm, aptly named the Smartwatch Group, revealed figures showing Samsung and their Gear line of smartwatches are still king, but that the Moto 360 was a distant second, making it the smartwatch to beat when it comes to Android Wear devices.

«We're still in early days, but shopping isn't yet one of the big uses of the devices,» Victoria Petrock, principal analyst at research firm eMarketer, said on Tuesday.

Even then, though, the midrange tablet space is still looking spartan, the research firm points out.

Another reason why the tech giant may have opted against a direct acquisition of HTC's phone unit is the fact that the firm wanted to avoid positioning itself as a clear competitor to its OEM partners, ABI Research Director speculates, noting how such a scenario is still a realistic possibility.

Still, the research firm projects that bitcoin prices could rise dramatically on the off - chance a positive decision is made, perhaps prompting demand for bitcoin in advance of this date.

Europe is still way behind the United States and certain Asian countries in the global 5G race, new findings from market research firm CCS Insight show, suggesting the Old Continent will only manage to surpass 100 million 5G connections in early 2023.

«The market is still a little bearish right now, but it presents a good opportunity [for stock buybacks and property acquisitions],» says Niti Nguansiri, manager of real estate research with SNL Financial, a Charlottesville, Va. - based research firm.

And with a total of $ 210 billion in 2006, online sales still represent just 5.25 percent of all U.S. retail sales, reports JupiterResearch, a division of Jupiter Kagan, Inc., a New York - based research and analysis firm.