Display ads are generally targeted towards users based on their current context (contextual targeting), past behavior (behavioral targeting), or a combination of the two.
Gone from last year: Lance Armstrong (our list is for active athletes only), White (now that we're a year past the 2010 Winter Games), Ohno (ditto), and NBA stars Kevin Garnett, Dwyane Wade and Kobe Bryant (probably just random, though Wade's stature decreased a tad with LeBron James joining his team, and Garnett is another year older).
The relative performance, or RS analysis, has formed lower highs over the past four months (line a) and has been testing its uptrend, line b, since May.
Two factors boosting earnings growth that are not sustainable indefinitely are a declining tax rate (over the past two years) and a lower provision for doubtful accounts despite higher writeoffs.
Just remember: never sit down (it will cost more), pay for your coffee separately (then hand the receipt to the barista) and never have a cappuccino past 11 am (it is just not the way things are done).
These levels are calculated in weekly (W), monthly (M), quarterly (Q), semiannual (S) and annual (A) time horizons, based on the past nine closes in each time horizon.
Walmart (WMT) was a favorite shopping destination, with Nikki willing to drive past rivals Target (TGT) and Costco (COST) just to get there.
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Scott Styris (41) and Gareth Hopkins (45) pushed the total past 200 with a stand of 67 but the Kiwis failed to use up their full allocation and were all out in the 47th over when Shane Bond was caught behind off Johnson, who finished with 3-41.
Many will also now see his past Google (GOOG) success as a function of the AdWords business model and him being in the right place at the right time, rather than innate sales and leadership skill.
For those with cast-iron stomachs, and a memory of how banks have snapped back from past downturns, Zions Bancorporation (40, ZION) is worth a look.
But still, 3:1 is a tidy margin of superiority. (UPDATE) Over the past twelve months the iPhone has maintained about a 2.8:1 advantage and currently stands at about 2:1 in terms of search interest on Google.
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" Past champion Kenneth (Buster) Hyman, a general contractor, saw a pipperoo of an accident in January: "Some guy crashed about 10 feet out of the gate.
So it was to everybody's disappointment that Mariner 4, the first space probe to fly past Mars (in 1965), revealed a place with a surface that appeared to have been static for billions of years.
The risk is that failure to agree on a new wave of openness during a period (the past two years) in which the world economy has been growing at its fastest for three decades, with more countries sharing in that growth than ever before, will set a sour political note for what may well be tougher times ahead.
On a cold day this past January, Melissa (full name withheld) loaded original artwork into her vehicle to start her trip to a storage unit she has rented.
The weekly on-balance volume (OBV) has been in a narrow range for the past four months, and is now testing key resistance (line c).
Having been in power for the past 12 years (and for most of the past century), the Social Democrats also had a privileged position as natural rulers of the country.
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The rebels' advance started last week when they pushed past Damara, a town 75 kilometers (47 miles) to the northeast.
With age, such concrete becomes brittle and is easily shaken loose by the vibration of a train racing past at 250kph (155mph).
Likewise, Millennials may party at the same nightclub, but only the affluent are escorted past the velvet rope to a separate (often elevated) section.
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His newest riff on Woodford (released this past November 2012) features a finish in maple barrels and old barrels used to age sherry and port.
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We used a simple 46-year lag for the peak in spending of the average household, what we call The Spending Wave (which we covered in a past blog).
It acts as a link to a more glorious past (real or imagined) and leads people to attribute - justifiably or otherwise - to the possessor positive qualities the name might have once stood for.
Long-time readers are likely well aware that the period beginning November 1 through April 30 historically has been very good for our newsletter portfolios (past performance never a guarantee of future performance) with returns over the last 22 years averaging 22% per annum!
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Just yesterday I was crossing the street in front of my apartment when a rider blew past me wearing a big set of headphones and (here's another classic maneuver) holding his helmet in his hand.
Flora has a brother (Max Minghella) who is shopping around for religious experience, and a mother (Juliette Binoche) whose kleptomaniac leanings point to a calamity in her past.
These include the transaction costs inherent in a trading strategy (even if the cost of a trade has dropped dramatically in the past 10 years) and limited or no access to the vast computing power that competitors will be using to crunch the numbers.
Recently, he expanded his reach with the colorful book "Decades: A Century of Fashion" (Bloomsbury, 2012) a look back at styles over the past century.
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It certainly isn't inconceivable that Apple will start selling high-def video through some sort of iTunes-like online store ( Steve Jobs talked a lot about HD during his Macworld keynote this past January), but an Apple satellite network (at least as described) just sounds like some Apple fanboy's wet dream.
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While such a portfolio would have required a much higher outlay of capital in the past (especially before the advent of commodity and currency ETFs), she can now build a portfolio incorporating all of her views through the use of ETFs.
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