Sentence examples for ring market from inspiring English sources

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Fabrice Grinda, founder and chief executive of the ring-tone seller Zingy Inc., says most of his customers are hip-hop fans who want the cachet of having the latest single on their phone, so hip-hop tunes dominate the ring market more than they do the Billboard charts.

And while U.S. diamond sales plummeted 25% in the fourth quarter, the company's stock has doubled to $37 since its January low; last year its share of the U.S. engagement ring market rose to 4.5% from 4%.

With revenues of $319m in 2007, 70% of which is from sales of engagement rings, it is now the biggest online specialist jeweller, and has a 4% share of the engagement-ring market in America.

Despite that less-than-ringing market success, America Online has come forth with a me-too product dubbed AOLTV, which it would not make available to me for review.

After years of double-digit growth rates, the global ring tone market appears to have come to the end of its crescendo, according to a variety of measures.

The American ring tone market is a couple of years behind Europe and Japan's, and is just beginning to take off, with an estimated $80 million to $100 million sold over the wireless Web last year.

But even more important to the record companies is the ring tone market.

The labels want to push the ring-tone market toward recorded music and away from synthesized ring tones, or computerized versions of songs.

"The ring-tone market is getting more sophisticated," he added.

But she said that was too much for the ring-tone market.