With the proliferation of Android application stores in China, the quality control over the applications offered in the stores has lagged, with users and regulators reporting difficulties with pirated software, spyware and viruses.
Burberry and has bought back full control of stores from a Chinese joint-venture partner.
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By introducing a little high-tech, stores can simulate the control and self-empowerment men crave after a long day of PowerPointlessness.
He added that one of the biggest challenges facing tablet makers in the U.S. is how best to sell the devices when they don't control the stores.
Apple has been relying on selling third-party products related to home control in Apple Stores.
For some of its functions, like email and the calendar, you can control how much data it stores by going into settings and specifying how many messages it should show from each account, or how far back in time its calendar should sync with the calendar service it uses.
Not only is that real estate a great inflation hedge, it gives the company total control over both the upkeep of stores and occupancy costs.
The Supreme Court agreed to wade into some of the biggest and most contentious issues facing corporations today when it accepted appeals of a massive discrimination suit against Wal-Mart Stores and a lawsuit by states seeking to control utility carbon dioxide emissions.
Operating margins improved in the third quarter thanks to expense control measures in the company's stores.
Apple has always kept close control over its own brand, opening stores would ensure that carried through to the end user.
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Sell-by and display-until labels - used by retailers for stock control - could be phased out completely if stores agree.
The chips also let phones talk directly to card-swipe terminals in stores, which has set off a race to organize and control the new world of mobile payments.
Private labels also offer more control over product development and distribution, enabling department stores to release new products as much as 60 to 90 days ahead of their name-brand competitors.
When Apple opened their stores 12 years ago, Steve Jobs knew that he had to control his distribution and his product.
Teens also visit stores in greater numbers than any other age group and have more control over buying decisions than they used to.
Gun and ammo manufactures put on a second shift, knowing that any time gun control leads the news, worried gun fanciers rush to stores to stock up.
Compared to Department Stores and Brands, Specialty (and Vertically Integrated) Retailers have the most control when it comes to pricing.
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That gave him control over lucrative, shore-based properties, like Lane Crawford department stores.
For the moment, Web sites represent an exception, but before much longer the three companies that control 85% of the browser market will likely put up their own app stores.
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To control how the Swatch was marketed, he began selling through his own branded Swatch stores.
To control quality (and avoid malpractice suits), AmeriDoc records all visits electronically and stores the data for seven years.
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Apple Stores were conceived as a way for Apple to promote its entire smorgasbord of products and to control their presentation.
Because many owners of sari-sari stores are housewives, the Hapinoy program could also provide women with more power and capital to take control of their own businesses.
He has aggressively exploited falling asset prices in Asia to take control of franchises, brought licensed-out products back in house and increased the proportion of directly operated stores.
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