Richard Mead, a managing director at Jordan Edmiston Group, a New York firm that advises on media deals, says there are another 5,000 or so trade publications and 12,000 trade and consumer conferences still out there and ripe for the picking.
Only 11 percent of teenagers use e-mail daily, Ms. Sandberg told Nielsen's Consumer 360 conference last week.
Sony and Samsung, among others, got a jump on things last week with announcements of new tablets and phones at a consumer electronics conference in Berlin.
Last Thursday, Handspring executives demonstrated a new version of the company's Treo Communicator line at a consumer electronics conference in Carlsbad, Calif.
At the annual consumer electronics conference, CES, in January, US-based retailers Lowe's, Home Depot and Staples each expanded their smart home offerings by forming partnerships with technology providers and ramping up their in-store marketing.
A director at a private equity firm, he was taking part in a panel discussion at a consumer goods conference last summer in New York when an entrepreneur raised his hand with a question: Where could a young company with just a few million dollars in sales go for money to grow?
The pair announced the collaboration in a press release today, ahead of the IFA consumer electronics conference where they will be showing off an early beta of their first jointly created app.
This is also our intent when we speak to consumers at conferences sponsored by state securities regulators or in libraries across the country.
The company may try to make a decision before its second-quarter earnings announcement on Feb. 8 or a consumer products analyst conference later that month, one of these people said.
As if to confirm the BlackBerry's new role as a consumer product, the conference call was peppered with references to the company's promotions for Mother's Day and the return to school in September.
As an Associate Professor at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business in North Carolina Dr. Chopra teaches the MBA Health Sector Management program and he is also the founder and host of Duke University's Consumer and Wireless Healthcare conference.
