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US companies are expected to
spend over a third of their annual marketing budgets in the fourth
quarter, a 50% increase over what they spent in an average quarter in
2005, according to the latest Blackfriars Communications report
"Marketing 2006: A Make Or Break Fourth Quarter".
Automotive executives worldwide strongly
agree that high oil prices have permanently changed consumers' purchasing
habits globally, driving them toward more fuel-efficient vehicles,
including hybrids, according to an annual global survey of industry
leaders by KPMG.
Middle
managers spend up to 2 hours a day searching for information to do their
jobs, and more than 50% of the information they obtain has no value to
them, according to results of a recent Accenture survey.
Continue reading... "Parks Associates: U.S. Home Controls Market to Exceed $3 Billion in 2007" »
For
the full year 2006, total online non-travel (retail) spending at U.S.
sites increased 24% to reach $102.1 billion, marking an exceptional year
for online retailers as e-commerce spending crossed $100 billion for the
first time, according to comScore Networks. Online holiday e-commerce
accounted for $24.6 billion, up 26% versus last year.
Here
is a quick summary of the key U.S. economic indicators released today: ISM
Services Index slows; Factory Orders increased; Pending Home Sales eased;
December retail sales rose 3.1%; Auto Sales decline; Challenger layoff
report; and Monsters Online Employment report.
Overall
U.S. music sales, including album sales (CDs and digital albums) and
single digital track sales, rose 19.4% to 1.19 billion units in 2006,
according to music tracker Nielsen SoundScan. Digital track sales rose 65%
to 581.9 million units, while digital
album sales more than doubled to 33 million units d in 2006.
Continue reading... "31% Price Decline to Slow DRAM Revenues Growth in 2007: iSuppli" »
As
wireless handsets continue to gain computing power, the number of
mobile-gaming users worldwide will increase threefold during the next five
years, reaching 134 million average users a month by 2010, up from 38
million average users in 2005, according to iSuppli.
Continue reading... "Mobile-Phone Gaming Market to Grow at 27.2% Annual Clip: iSuppli Report " »
U.S.
regulators approved 18 new drugs in 2006, close to an eight-year low, as
the number of medicines recommended for sale in 2006 and 2005 dropped from
the annual average of 26 drugs recorded in the previous six years,
according to U.S. data.
Continue reading... "U.S. New Drug Approvals at 8 Year Low; R&D Spend Hits $40B" »
Planned
job cuts in U.S. declined 22% in 2006 to 839,822, about 232,000
fewer than the 1,072,054 cuts in 2005, according to the job-cut report
by Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc., the global outplacement
consultancy. It was the first time since 2000 that annual job-cut
announcements came in under 1,000,000.
Continue reading... "HEADS UP! 'Thought Grenade' Tops British Jargon Poll" »
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