Mekko Graphics 6.9.1.2022 Release Notes
Mekko Graphics 6.9.1.2022 Release Notes Overview – This major release introduces several new features: Ability to import Mekko Graphics-supported chart types from Microsoft Graph and create a...
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Mekko Graphics 6.9.2.2033 Release Notes Overview – This release is minor update to 6.9.1 This version is adapted for handicapped users. Specifically fixed: Important elements in the application were...
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Mapping the Boston Commercial Real Estate Market
Determining which part of Boston to relocate to can be daunting. Most firms want to be near a cluster of similar firms to make it easier to partner and to attract talent. Transwestern RBJ sent me...
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Facebook Government Data Requests
The United States government made the over 15,000 data requests to Facebook in the first half of 2014 and Facebook provided data for 80% of these requests. The US made the most data requests and the...
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US Electric Vehicle Market
The electric vehicles market is one of the few growth sectors in the automotive market. Its highest growth comes from two relatively new segments, plug in hybrids and 100% electrics. These markets...
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Where Billionaires Live
If you’re targeting billionaires or other ultra-high net worth individuals in your sales or marketing, you might want to know where to find them. In turns out that Europe has the most with North...
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The Most Profitable College Football Program–U Texas
How profitable is college football in the US? The University of Texas had revenues of almost $110 million in 2012-13 and expenses of only $27 million as you can see in the cascade chart below. The...
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Unauthorized Immigrant Executive Action–Who Benefits?
President Obama ‘s new executive action will benefit 3.9 million of the estimated 11.2 million unauthorized immigrants in the U.S, leaving 5.8 million still ineligible for deportation protection. The...
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Unauthorized Immigrants from Mexico and Central America Benefit Most from...
While over 55% of the unauthorized immigrants from Mexico and Central America are eligible for deportation relief under President Obama’s executive actions, under 35% of unauthorized immigrants from...
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Christmas Trees Do We Prefer Real or Fake?
Americans spent almost the same amount of money on real and artificial Christmas trees in 2013. While they bought more than twice as many real trees, they paid more than double on average for...
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The Top 5 PC Makers Are Growing While the Market is Shrinking
Led by Lenovo and Dell, the top 5 PC makers shipped between 5 and 11% more units in Q3 2014 than in Q3 2013. All other PC makers combined shipped 18% fewer units. The overall market was almost flat,...
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Extreme Poverty Declined 48% Over the Past 30 Years
The increase in prosperity in China and India has led to a 48% decrease in the number of people living on less than $1.25 per day. The declines were steepest in East Asia and the Pacific (85%) and...
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How Do We Spend Our Music Dollars?
Americans spent $109 on music in 2014 with a little over 1/2 spent on live events and the rest on recorded music. By far the single biggest item of spending was live concert admissions which accounted...
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US Auto Industry Market Map
With one major exception, the US auto industry is quite fragmented. The top 5 car and Crossover/SUV models account for under 30% of 2014 sales. These are by far the two largest segments of the US...
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Who’s Buying Super Bowl Ads?
Auto and food and drink companies are the two biggest spenders on ads for Super Bowl 2015. Tech firms come in a strong third place. Surprisingly, only one beer company is represented. The only beer...
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IT Budget Trends: CIO Spending Now and in 2018
CIOs predict that, as a percentage of total IT budget, spending on innovation, analytics and security will increase over the next three years, while spending on infrastructure and core transactional...
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Valentine’s Day Spending: What Are We Buying and Who Are We Buying For?
Americans will spend almost $19 billion on Valentine’s Day gifts. Spouses and significant others will get almost $12B, while pets will get over $700 million. More money will be spend on jewelry, even...
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Where is the Growth in the Luxury Goods Market?
Surprisingly, three of the highest price-point segments in the luxury goods market—jets, cars and hospitality—are experiencing rapid (9+%) growth, while the lower price-point personal goods segment is...
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Facebook’s Geographic Mix of Revenue and Users
While Facebook’s users are distributed relatively evenly around the world, it relies heavily on the U.S., Canada and Europe for its revenue. Three-fourths of the company’s revenue comes from these...
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Who Watches American Movies?
The international box office for US films was over $26 billion in 2014. China and Japan were the two largest markets with the Asia Pacific region as a whole surpassing EMEA in total box office revenue...
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