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...About 60 per cent of Google’s Russian users only access its services on mobile, whereas Yandex’s users were more concentrated on desktop searches, TNS said....
...Our calculation shows a significant decline in domestic bond investment (-¥34 tn), with the largest increase for foreign equities (+¥13 tn), followed by domestic equities (+¥12 tn) and foreign bonds (+¥5...
...A poll by TNS in February found that 71 per cent were happy for the government to erode personal privacy to deal with terrorists and serious criminals....
...According to a survey from TNS, part of Kantar, the consumer research group, 33 per cent of people worldwide admit to showrooming....
...Schlumberger, which used EIA data for the report, said Los Monos could contain 59 tn cubic metres (2,083 tn cubic feet) of gas in place with 14.8 tn cubic metres (521 tn cubic feet) technically recoverable...
...EMCF cleared more than one billion transactions last year, with a gross value of more than 5.4 tn....
...“Misguided digital strategies are generating mountains of digital waste, from friendless Facebook accounts to blogs no one reads,” TNS said....
...Brazilians on average have the second most friends on social networks with 231 (Malaysia is first at 233), according to a study by TNS Digital Life....
...Even though research is proving a drag on WPP’s overall growth, which lags behind that of rivals such as Publicis and Omnicom, Sir Martin said that he did not regret spending £1bn on TNS in 2008....
...More people learnt the identity of the footballer behind a recent gagging order by chatting with friends than by using Twitter, according to a survey by TNS....
...Its brands include Grey, JWT, Burson-Marsteller and TNS....
...That is likely to reassure investors that Sir Martin will not expend a vast sum of their cash on another big, risky acquisition – even though the last such deal, TNS, is delivering returns ahead of schedule...
...TNS also said it would buy back up to $50m of its own stock. In technology, Apple said it planned to relax restrictions for iPhone application developers....
...If concluded, the deal would mark the latest in a string of small acquisitions for WPP, whose TNS research company on Wednesday announced the purchase of a majority stake in Research and Marketing Services...
...Sir Martin reminded the audience that before WPP bought TNS, the market research group, it had achieved dividend growth of 20 per cent....
...Even within the faster-growing markets, attitudes to advertising and brands online can vary widely, TNS found....
...Artie Bulgrin, ESPN’s head of research and analytics, said the broadcaster had been encouraged by research from TNS suggesting the number of “avid” football fans had grown in the past four years from 6 per...
...Klaus Paur, of TNS automotive consultancy, said: “This is a short cut for Geely to get access to world-class technology and mature auto markets.”...
...Traders also noted industry data from TNS confirming a strong December, with sales up more than 8 per cent for the big four grocers....
...However, stripping out currency effects and the TNS acquisition, organic revenues fell 8.7 per cent, which was worse than the first-quarter decline of 8.3 per cent but better than the second-quarter decline...
...The change reflected WPP’s “weakening operating performance related to the global advertising downturn and still elevated debt levels from the mainly debt-financed TNS acquisition”, said Moody’s....
...A recent survey by TNS Emnid, the pollster, revealed that two-thirds are opposed to state subsidies for Opel....
...Carmakers accounted for 9 per cent of all US media spending last year, according to TNS, even after domestic manufacturers cut their spending by 21.3 per cent to $5.51bn....
...TNS itself could prove to be a greater problem. “Market research generally has turned out to be more cyclical than was expected to be at the start of the year,” said Mr Kirby....
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