Atlassian, with its Confluence offering, has deep market penetration among IT organizations and is now breaking out to the broader organization.
The subscriber base has been steadily increasing because of greater rural market penetration and increased development of number of applications by the company.
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In fact, I strongly believe any nascent technology that cannot exist without subsidies beyond an introductory period will not gain market penetration, and is not worth supporting.
Despite the uncertain macro environment, we expect Apple to sustain above-peer revenue growth, upward-trending margins, and incremental market penetration opportunities to fend off competitive and economic challenges.
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That big caveat aside, the report somewhat persuasively puts the Chinese economy in context by comparing market penetration in various sectors with the history of U.S. economic development.
In recent years, this dynamic has become especially problematic as technological advances have accelerated market penetration of customer-sited solar photovoltaics, combined heat and power and other genres of distributed generation.
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On the revenue line, this can come in the form of greater market penetration (both through increased presence in existing markets and expansion into new ones) and cross-selling opportunities to existing customers.
But with higher-than-average pricing, fewer desktop options (Vaio recently switched to an all-in-one design, just like the iMac), lackluster market penetration, and a weak presence at retail, Vaio machines have yet to take off.
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As Sift expands scale and deepens its market penetration, it could attract takeover offers from email marketers like Constant Contact, Vertical Response, and Vocus, all of which are looking for new ways to reach consumers.
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Although there has been some cable cutting, in which consumers drop pay TV and either use antennas or run a service like Netflix through an Internet connection, traditional TV distribution has an insanely high rate of market penetration.
Even in 2015, with passenger car sales projected at 23.8 million per year twice the 2010 U.S. market Chinese market penetration would still be only 11%, compared to 83% in the U.S. at the end of 2009.
It is possible that since the iPhone market penetration is markedly lower in Nordic countries than in America, the pool of iPhone users in Finland includes a bigger proportion of more tech-savvy consumers who are migrating away from text-messaging more rapidly than average mobile subscribers.
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Acquiring U of M allows greater market penetration into the Washington DC and Baltimore areas, whereas the Rutgers merger captures a good chunk of New Jersey and portions of the five NYC boroughs (how thoroughly Rutgers penetrates the NYC market is keenly addressed by Darren Rovell of ESPN).
"The near term will obviously be challenging, but when consumer spending resumes its long-term uptrend, we expect Polaris to get back on a growth track, as there remains plenty of room for market penetration abroad as well as with the military and right here in the U.S., " says Hare.
After speaking with several companies it seems like everyone is in wait-and-see mode right now, they'd like to see what the market penetration of the PSP is first, whether the demand is there for UMD movies, and of course whether Sony is going to add support UMD drives to set-top boxes or the PlayStation 3.
With a lower online penetration (compared to US), a fragmented hotel market and low OTA penetration in Eastern Europe, we believe that the European online travel market offers considerable growth opportunities for OTAs.
However, he warned that intense competition, changes in the telecommunications market and increasingly high mobile penetration could limit growth.
We think that this concern is overblown because of the large size and fragmentation of the commercial reverse supply chain segment, high barriers to entry for successful penetration into the market, and the incompatibility of an online surplus liquidation business with the aforementioned potential competitors.
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From tiny Palm, the struggling smartphone pioneer, to Research In Motion (RIM), the BlackBerry manufacturer, and the dozen or so handset makers who build smartphones based on Microsoft's Windows Mobile, as well as the 800-pound gorilla of the business, Nokia all have been forced to react to the iPhone's touch screen, intuitive software and iconic appeal, not to mention its rapid penetration of the market.
With an expanding travel and deals market combined with a lower online penetration (compared to the U.S.), we believe Europe offers considerable growth opportunities for Travelzoo.
One of them is penetration of the enterprise market with solid state drives, an area hotly contested now by big storage and computing players like EMC, Dell and IBM.
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Every year Sirius XM pays a large sum to its OEM (original equipment manufacturers) partners to keep its radio equipment flowing into the new car market at around a 60% penetration rate.
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On top of this, Research in Motion is expected to launch its PlayBook tablet in March 2011, and could leverage its dominant position in the enterprise segment to accelerate penetration of the tablet market (See Can RIM Leverage its Enterprise Market Presence to Lift Tablet Sales?).
The 220 million was an increase of 92 million since the beginning of the year and increased the 3G penetration of the cell phone market from 13% to 20%.
Founded in 2009, with headquarter in Tianjin China, branch offices in London, Beijing, New York, Shanghai, and Shenzhen China, the Company has made major strides in achieving meaningful penetration of the Chinese smartphone market, which will be its foundation to expand to other markets.
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High penetration levels in the U.S. market enabled Home Depot to offset its losses from the hard-hit housing markets such as southern California and Florida.
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Compare this to a mature market like the U.K. which has a penetration of around 14% and you can see the potential that the country holds especially considering the higher expected growth rate of GDP over time.
Rising disposable income, the growth of the middle class and a relatively low penetration rate for appliances are making the Philippines a hot market for consumer durables.
China, for example, is poised to overtake the U.S. as the biggest market for smartphones by the end of 2012 despite having a 3G penetration of only about 18% currently.
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