Well, now comes word via IHS Technology analyst Kevin Wang that Apple this year will, at long last, up the storage on its entry-level models iPhone from 16GB to 32GB.
Stephen Dutton, an analyst with Euromonitor International, wrote in a recent research note that hotpot restaurants have become omnipresent nationwide, serving as go-to spots for social events and adapted for regional preferences.
Its 2016 applicants include 223,849 undergraduates applying for summer jobs and new analyst positions, as well as 30,542 MBAs looking for summer jobs and new associate positions.
"The Chinese market is certainly tightening now," Graham Deller, an analyst at CRU, said.
"It is impossible to lose money in the animal-feed industry in China right now, unless you have an internal management problem," said Wang Qian, a Shanghai-based agriculture analyst at Guotai Junan Securities Co.
"We think the Chinese are making moves to expand further into the west and we think they have a very good chance to take market share, if they are fully committed to doing so," said Steven Fisher, UBS analyst.
"There's a clear bifurcation and growth within the wearables market," said IDC analyst Jitesh Ubrani.
Michael Wittner, analyst at Société Générale, said: "We expect global crude markets to continue to be driven by supply disruptions, especially in Nigeria and Canada.
Mark Mahaney, an analyst at RBC Capital Markets, recently outed some of the large-cap tech groups that are the biggest payers of stock to their employees.
"The fees create a barrier to funds leaving, so it incentivises users to keep their money inside the WeChat ecosystem," says Li Zhefeng, analyst at iResearch in Beijing.
The Foundation's senior policy analyst Laura Gardiner said: "Frequent job moves are the main route to the rapid pay increases young people should experience as they begin their working lives, so it is a real concern that job switching slowed down for all groups, and particularly for young people, even before the recession hit.
Traffic congestion eased greatly during the first quarter, as large numbers of people working in cities traveled back to their hometowns to celebrate the spring festival, AMAP analyst Fang Yiduo said.
, a Morgan Stanley analyst.
"The cuts were not a surprise," said NPD analyst Stephen Baker.
The cuts were "not a surprise," said NPD analyst Stephen Baker.
Ant Financial, Alipay's parent group, declined to comment, but an analyst at iResearch, a Beijing-based consultancy whose statistics were used by Credit Suisse, said that the large number is partly explained by the large amount of non-ecommerce payments that Alipay handles.
"We're talking about the emergence of chat commerce," said Lily Varón, an analyst at Forrester Research.
Gao Shuang, an analyst with China Internet Network Information Center, said the main reason is simple: Women are more decisive when it comes to shopping.
"The adaptive lacing system is an excellent first step towards truly adaptive personalized footwear," said Matt Powell, sports industry analyst at NPD Group Inc.
Neil Cybart, Apple analyst at Above Avalon, said next week's break with tradition was "a recognition that recent iPhone sales trends are a bit different than [Apple's] management was expecting".
