He cited mobile payments and outbound travel and tourism as two promising market areas.
"This is a promising market that needs to be a humanized form of work, " he said.
Amkor operates in a promising market, but its finances may frighten even battle-hardened investors.
India is a promising market: most tobacco is chewed, or smoked in hand-rolled bidis.
In the long term, however, aircraft manufacturers reckon that China will be a promising market.
Mr Hauser says there is scope for mergers, pointing to America as a particularly promising market for deals.
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Nevertheless, studies by the Futron Corporation, an aerospace consultancy, suggest that suborbital space travel is a promising market.
Hundreds, if not thousands, of other companies are eyeing this promising market.
At first glance, China is a promising market: last year app downloads shot up by 300%, rising to 18% of the global total.
Mexican sellers are also making inroads in Australia, another promising market.
Some entrepreneurs see a promising market in selling technologies to small businesses that might help them to streamline operations and do away with low-wage workers, or retrain them for higher-skilled jobs.
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The ruling class in Angola is another promising market.
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But these institutions, as well as others in the Muslim world, would like to pick up where the first Islamic banks failed, to tap into a promising market of pious Muslims, in some cases flush with petrodollars.
While emerging markets like Brazil--with 131, 000 HNWIs--and the rest of Latin America are "poised to grow again" according to the report, another promising market--India--experienced the second-largest drop in millionaires, decreasing by 31.6% to just 84, 000 after an increase of 22.7% in 2007.
Before then, China had been viewed simply as a promising commercial market.
Truth be told, more and more executives are locked in on the energy market and are promising to leverage that market to improve sustainability at their firms.
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Martin says that analysts weren't factoring the costs of bringing to market promising new drugs for bacterial infection, schizophrenia, and osteoporosis.
The vaccine, Gardasil, is the most promising product brought to market by drugmaker Merck in years.
Strength in the tech sector was the latest promising sign for the market.
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The vaccine, Gardasil, is the most promising product brought to market by drugmaker Merck (nyse: MRK - news - people ) in years.
HMOs have captured most of the corporate-benefits market by promising to keep in check the health-insurance premiums paid by America's large firms, which were once escalating rapidly.
Some firms think the domestic market more promising than exports.
Indeed, in Dr Moran's opinion, current proposals such as advanced-purchase commitments, in which governments try to create a paying market by promising to buy large amounts of new products designed to combat neglected diseases run the risk of swaying industry toward for-profit, do-it-yourself drug development.
"At CES last year, we introduced ourselves to the US market, promising that we would make significant progress within the year, and we have delivered on that promise with new customers, innovative new capabilities and the most flexible and commercially attractive payment platforms available today, " said Stephen Petheram, Marketing Director at PayWizard.
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Sales had fallen and prospects for making any dent in the e-book market were not promising.
The China market is particularly promising because of government efforts to promote renewable energy.
The market is indeed promising, but some experts believe that mandates have artificially inflated the drive to adopt RFID.
Meanwhile, some promising news for the housing market- the National Association of Realtors said that pending home sales increased 7.3 percent in November to 100.1.
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