New orders for durable goods rose a seasonally adjusted 3.4% in June from a month earlier, the Commerce Department said.
VIEW ALL SEARCH RESULTS This copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers visit www.djreprints.com. www.barrons.com/articles/apple-google-et-al-in-land-grab-for-home-automation-says-raymond-james-1401205748 By Text Size Large Raymond James's Tavis McCourt today reflects on the prospect of a "land grab" in home automation that is underway, with reports of Apple ( AAPL ) entering the fray, going up against the Nest…
VIEW ALL SEARCH RESULTS This copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers visit www.djreprints.com. www.barrons.com/articles/internet-of-things-mammoth-morgan-stanley-note-tries-to-explain-it-1380235443 By Text Size Large It's a question with too few really clear answers: What exactly is this stuff everyone keeps referring to as "The Internet of Things"? Into the fray late yesterday slipped a 29-page research note from…
The internet is a great place to shop. You can have access to almost any product and goods in the world. With a simple tap on the screen, you can visit any store and buy anything your heart desires. For business owners, this is why it is essential to have a good web design. The page layout is the first thing people notice when they open a page. That is why websites need to follow and adapt to new trends. Good website design…
While purchase intentions can help forecast future sales, they are “imperfect” measures, and managers should exercise caution when using intentions data, says Vicki Morwitz, New York University. Her conclusion is based on meta-analyses of data from 50+ research articles and a dozen industry data sets (Excerpt from Consumer Insights: Findings from Behavioral Research) . Stated purchase intentions are strong, but imperfect, predictors of purchasing. On average…
These companies have been raising dividends significantly and steadily for at least five years.
Huck Boyd National Institute for Rural Development Let’s go to New York, where an excited consumer has just made a purchase. It is a cellphone case for an iPhone – and not just any cellphone case, but one that is made of bioplastics. Where do you suppose those bioplastics came from? Would you believe, rural Kansas? Today we’ll meet a company which is specializing in the type of renewable, compostable, bio-based technology which is helping more businesses go green. Mark Remmert is chief…
Customer satisfaction (often abbreviated as CSAT, more correctly CSat) is a term frequently used in marketing . It is a measure of how products and services supplied by a company meet or surpass customer expectation. Customer satisfaction is defined as "the number of customers, or percentage of total customers, whose reported experience with a firm, its products, or its services (ratings) exceeds specified satisfaction goals." [1]…
A new study finds that fluorescent light can degrade the flavor of milk in supermarkets—and offers some solutions.
Tinkerers source carbon dioxide from welders and string connector hoses to carbonated water machines in bid to cut cost from company’s 25 cents a liter; ‘I’m sticking it to the man.’