The approach is in lockstep with the device's target market -- busy and less technical consumers, particularly young mothers, who find themselves increasingly dependent on e-mail and don't want the complexity of a smartphone or the high cost of running one on a 3G network.
It seems to be to target the after-school market and disrupt the world of homework.
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Because LivingSocial is going after a more affluent lifestyle-oriented target market, whereas Groupon is going for more of a land grab, he said.
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Although the devices do not have the most advanced specifications, they are competitively priced to help deliver Huawei's target 18-34 year old market.
Thus the interest rate that the Fed pays should tend to put a floor under short-term market rates, including our policy target, the federal-funds rate.
They go fishing with below-market rates and target buyers who don't qualify for regular health insurance.
Three years ago it changed focus to target a wider market: fitness-conscious consumers.
Both Caterpillar and Deere are investing in manufacturing operations in the country to better target its fast-growing construction equipment market.
As a result, Target Corp. offers an above-market dividend yield of 2.1%.
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Even when an exclusive partnership is the right way to enter a target market, the start-up must still keep in mind the further growth of the company.
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Retailers were among the biggest pre-market movers: Target and Gap reported stronger-than-expected same store sales.
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For board games for example, a top game could realistically expect to reach 1.5-2% of the target market.
Young Asians, in particular, appear to have an open mind and they, not the older generation, are the target market, says Yuwa Hedrick-Wong, Asian economist at MasterCard.
We have forgotten that regardless of the target market, the key decision-maker, whether he or she is a financial adviser, a hospital administrator, a CEO, a mom buying a toy for her child, or the head of a large contractor for the military, is first and foremost a human.
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Prioritizing pre-build solutions for Microsoft CRM, Salesforce, Exact Target, and QuickBooks is based on market demand, yet fine-tuning Scribe Online takes an entirely deeper level of customer intelligence and insight.
Blackberry believes that its target market is people that are hyper-socially connected and true multi-taskers that need to get things done.
Continental Europe's underdeveloped personal-finance market should be another target.
The firm is expected to target a lower-priced section of the luxury market with its new Mercedes luxury line, and develop cars for sale at a price in the 100, 000-300, 000 euros range.
Amazon had been hoping to target the market with its 9.7-inch screen Kindle DX e-book reader, for example, but schools said the device wasn't sufficiently interactive and lacked basics such as page numbers and color graphics.
As part of a broader strategy involving impact investing and the market-based solutions of target recipients, PRIs stand to tackle tough social issues on a scale never before seen by moving beyond traditional notions of charity that, in many ways, continue to restrain large-scale progress.
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There may be times when a long-term bull market periodically consolidates but fails to avoid getting out and staying out of a long-term bull market that periodically consolidates but fails to meet your 10% target to re-enter, consider putting 5% back to work for each quarter where the total return is plus or minus 5%.
And this new bear-to-bull ratio indicates a more positive market outlook rather than a pessimistic one from the usually on-target contrarian point of view.
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Home Inns was spawned to meet the stay-over needs of Ctrip's target market of individual travelers.
Perhaps Bear Stearns--the smallest of the major investment banks, but among the most heavily exposed to the mortgage market--was the easiest target.
And they make up exactly the market the ECB are trying to target - cricket fans who never go to see the county game.
Lai's latest target: Hong Kong's oligopolistic grocery-store market.
Marketing in English (to target both 2nd-generation Latinos as well as the broader market) captured some of this burgeoning group.
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Microsoft could win big by keeping the price of two-screen interaction low using high-quality devices that are rapidly penetrating their target market.
Ken Auletta recently reported that the big boxers account for 30% of all sales while Wal-Mart and Target combine for 45% of the market.
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Still, if it can manage this feat, Microsoft could win big by keeping the price of two-screen interaction low using high-quality devices that are rapidly penetrating their target market.
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