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The general direction of a market or of the price of an asset.
Trends can vary in length from short, to intermediate, to
long term
ë prevailing direction of the market, either up or down,
during the course of a term. Thus the trend is always
relative to the term; ie, short term, medium term or long
term.
ë trend can also apply to interest rates, yields, equities and
any other market which is characterized by a long-term
movement in price or volume.
ën emerging trend is a topic area that is growing in interest
and utility over time.
Knowledge of emerging trends is particularly important to
individuals and companies who are charged with
monitoring a particular field or company.
For example, a market analyst may want to review
technical and news-related literature for recent trends that
will impact the companies he is watching and reporting on.
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Telecom has shown the highest growth in
terms of competition, benefit for end users,
and pricing, social policies, etc.
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Úew players entering rural markets - biggies like ëirtel, BSÚ and
Reliance leading in the race to access rural markets.
DoCoMo witnessing the biggest jump in proportion of subscribers
coming from the rural areas
Prepaid tariffǯs 40% lower than Postpaid -. More number of players,
per second plans has reduced the pre-paid rev/min saw a sharp fall
from 76p/min in Mar-09 to 55p in Mar-10; a fall of 30%.
Úow the majority of postpaid subscribers have no incentive to cut
tariffs as MÚP and 3G will take some time.
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High market concentration results in lower incidence of multi-SIM
and prevents leakage of minutes
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The retail scenario is one of the fastest growing industries in India over
the last couple of years. Currently the share of retail trade in India's
GDP is around 12 per cent, and is estimated to reach 22 per cent by 2010.
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ë new marketing concept - where a store pops up for a few days at a
major city or a mall and disappear after creating interest among
consumers.
aunch, sell or just promote the products or services at unique
destinations and then wrap up as quickly after generating the desired
buzz.
For a nascent category, a pop up store help in generating the much
desired curiosity around the product or service. opportunity to study
and test customer behavior
Used to promote or educate consumers and drive trial.
In markets like India. the distances and climate doesnǯt allow
customers to venture out very easily. Hence, itǯs of greater interest if the
showroom can betaken to the customers, it also shortens the sales cycle
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ED TVs are the new breed of televisions that have arrived
in the market. ED TVs are somewhat similar to CD TVs.
The innovative backlighting feature has made ED TV an
advanced version of CD television models. The CD
panels of ED TVs are lighted by ight Emitting Diodes.
Compared to the conventional CD TV, ED TVs have
better contrast ratio causing loss of image detail by
reducing the contrast ratio.
ED TVs through the local dimming effect produces better
black areas by dimming the backlight behind dark areas.
This produces better contrast and more detailed image in
the dark areas.
The major players in the market are Samsung, Sharp, Sony
and G
ë 3D television (3D-TV) is a television set that employs techniques of 3D
presentation, such as stereoscopic capture, multi-view capture, or 2D plus
depth, and a 3D displayȄa special viewing device to project a television
program into a realistic three-dimensional field.
Sony Corporation brought Indiaǯs first three-dimensional television in March
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3D TV market is expected to grow with greater availability of 3D content.
Úearly 16 new titles from Hollywood are expected to be in the 3D format this
year.
The trend is people can see movies and things within the premises of their
home.
But the sad truth of the matter is as of now there is little or no 3D content
available for television viewers in India as itǯs costly to make and
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The marketing world is changing: many marketers now
perceive other brands not simply as rivals, but as potential
partners in mutually beneficial projects.
There has been enormous growth in co-branding over the past
three years:
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India budget airline company ëir Deccan got into a deal with
the Cafe Coffee Day chain.
ës per the deal Cafe Coffee Day will now become the single
point vendor to supply a range of food and beverages to the
passengers on ëir Deccan flights.
Biggies like Cavin Kare and Dabur are also not far behind in the race
of attracting the valuable customers of small town who have a
constant urge to look like models and bollywood beauties and
become stunning Sushmitas and ëishwaryas of their localities.
Domestic FMCG companies are now looking at ayurveda to drive growth for their
products.
ënalysts attribute the rising interest in ayurveda to the fact that consumers are now more
health conscious and prefer medicines with no-side effects
Major FMCG firms including Dabur and Emami are stepping up focus on their ayurveda
portfolio.
In addition to launching newer products and extending their existing brands to other
categories, the companies are also setting up their own health camps and ayurveda
centres for consultation.
Dabur and Emami are looking to enter the `services' sector with their range of health
camps, spas and gyms.
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business in Maharashtra, Gujarat, Karnataka and Kerala.
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the next big hope in retail, with an increasing number of corporates
foraying into the segment.
analysts say that branded outlets would co-exist hand-in-hand and not
result in the phasing out of the chemists because such outlets would
cater largely to the upper and middle-end of the population.
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From being a portable option for executives, the laptop is now striking a strong
note with regular consumers.
Seeing huge sales, brands are pushing style, feature varied, price friendly
choices
The number of brands vying for a share in the expanding laptop pie has gone
up manifold. Brands such as Toshiba, G, Samsung, Sony, MSI, ësus, Fujitsu,
Panasonic and Indian brands such as Zenith, Sahara, Intex, have come in with
laptop and netbook options for every kind of aspiration and pocket power, in
addition to the already present HP-Compaq, IBM, ëcer, HC , Dell and enovo.
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ës Ketan Patel, head, mobility business, HP India, said, DzConsumer
trends with computers, especially laptops, are changing very fast.
Things like style quotient, body colours, excellent sound and graphics
quality, besides the regular stuff including internet access, are
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writes a tweet describing the issue.
@ The Dell support team is actively monitoring Twitter conversations around
Dell products through the Service Cloud application. They can setup custom Twitter
searches inside Salesforce (like Dzdell laptopsdz or Dzdell monitordz) so even if the tweet is
not directly addressed to Dellǯs official account on Twitter, it will still show up in Service
Cloud.
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case from the tweet with a click.
STEP4:The Salesforce app will intelligently parse the tweet and all the visual
information that may be embedded in the tweet (like product pictures and
customerǯs location) is also added to the case as seen in the following
screenshot.
@ Úow the rep. will send a public tweet to the
customer with an hyperlink to the knowledgebase article
and all this is again done using the Service Cloud app
itself. Salesforce for Twitter is also integrated with bit.ly so
support teams can also track clicks in tweets
Wright had an idea to shoot video of the operation and post it online.
Its YouTube site has 200,000+ subscribers, and it has been featured
on major mainstream media outlets like The Today Show, The Tonight
Show, The History Channel, The Wall Street Journal and others.
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MTV wants MTV and VH1 viewers to be able to track
the moves of their favourite reality TV stars. Through
MTV's relationship with coursquare, personalities from
shows such as Jersey Shore, The Hills, The City and Real
World: New Orleans will receive 'celebrity mode'
coursquare accounts that are publicly accessible to fans.
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Starbucks is one big brand that has embraced social media
and so it's no surprise that it brewed up a presence on
coursquare. Caffeine addicts can become coursquare
'maristas' by checking in at five different Starbucks
locations. Starbucks is also considering ways to reward
customers who check-in
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One company that is already rewarding customers for
checking in on coursquare is yogurt chain Tasti D-
Lite. It allows members of its TreatCards loyalty card
program to earn extra points by connecting their
TreatCards to their coursquare accounts and letting
the world know when they make a purchase
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A revolutionary concept to change the face of business
process outsourcing. Energy efficiency and Cost savings
form to be the two most important sides of green
computing. few green computing trends:
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important trend, especially for servers, virtualization also is
increasingly used for storage and server network
environments.
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'net' from someone else, who is then responsible for the
security, power, and care and maintenance. It's also cheap,
depending on the scale, sometimes as little as $5 a month
for an unlimited amount of backup storage
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or single-instance storage. New technology eliminates this
waste, drastically cutting the total data storage needed.
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! ùSolid-state disk is a huge change in the
way that storage systems will be utilized. No moving parts
and is not magnetic, so it is a stronger, safer, faster way to
store and access data.