On 27 May 2009, Caltex Oil Australia Ltd. announced it would be acquiring 302 Mobil service stations in Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney and Adelaide, subject to approval of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.

After exhibiting at the Consumer Electronics Show in January 1999, Mike Ramsay announced to the company that the first version of the TiVo digital video recorder would ship " In Q1 ," ( the last day of which is 31 March ) despite an estimated four to five months of work remaining to complete the device.

The Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act ( or CBDTPA ) was a United States bill proposed in 2002 that would have prohibited any kind of technology that could be used to read digital content without digital rights management ( DRM )— which prohibits copying and reading any content under copyright without permission of the copyright owner.

Consumer surplus or consumers ' surplus is the monetary gain obtained by consumers because they are able to purchase a product for a price that is less than the highest price that they would be willing to pay.

On June 26, 2006, Pfizer announced that it would sell its Consumer Healthcare unit ( manufacturer of Listerine, Nicorette, Visine, Sudafed and Neosporin ) to Johnson & Johnson for $ 16. 6 billion.

At the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show, Dish Network announced that they would be dropping the “ Network ” and going solely by Dish ( along with a new logo ) in their marketing.

The OPA itself – through its Consumer Division – mobilized the public on behalf of these guidelines, reducing the likelihood of " cheating " by those who would seek higher wages or prices.

Stable measuring unit assumption: financial capital maintenance in nominal monetary units or traditional Historical cost accounting only under the traditional Historical Cost paradigm ; i. e., accountants consider changes in the purchasing power of the functional currency up to but excluding 26 % per annum for three years in a row ( which would be 100 % cumulative inflation over three years or hyperinflation as defined in IAS 29 ) as immaterial or not sufficiently important for them to choose Capital Maintenance in units of constant purchasing power in terms of a Daily Consumer Price Index or daily rate Constant Item Purchasing Power Accounting at all levels of inflation and deflation as authorized in IFRS in the original Framework ( 1989 ), Par 104 ( a ) Conceptual Framework ( 2010 ), Par.

At a July 13, 2004, Senate Banking Committee hearing on the effects of the GLBA five years after passage, the Legislative Director of the Consumer Federation cited Roger Ferguson ’ s 2003 speech and stated the “ extravagant promises ” of universal banking had “ proven to be mostly hype .” He noted that advocates of repealing Sections 20 and 32 had said “ anks, securities firms, and insurance companies would merge into financial services supermarkets ” and, after five years, some mergers had occurred “ but mostly within the banking industry, not across sectors .” Within the banking industry, Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan testified to Congress in 2004 that commercial bank consolidation had “ slowed sharply in the past five years .”

4173, the bill that became the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010, Representative Maurice Hinchey ( D-NY ) proposed an amendment to the bill that would have reenacted Glass-Steagall Sections 20 and 32 and also prohibited bank insurance activities.

Everyone agrees that repairs and maintenance expenditure of owner-occupied dwellings should be covered in a Consumer Price Index, but the spending approach would include mortgage interest too.

A Consumer Price Index compares how much it would cost now to do exactly what consumers did in the reference-period with what it cost then.

Since these accounts include the equivalent rental value of owner-occupied dwellings, the equivalent rental approach would have to be applied in the Consumer Price Index too.

Lucent would become independent in 1996, and sold / spun off more assets into Advanced American Telephones, Agere Systems, Avaya, and Consumer Phone Services.

Adjusted for inflation using the Consumer Price Index ( CPI ), that would be the equivalent of $ 215 million dollars in 2007.

Senator Lautenberg, who has a pro-environment voting record, co-sponsored the Consumer First Energy Act of 2008, which would have repealed $ 17 billion in tax breaks for oil companies and reinvested the $ 17 billion in renewable energy development and energy efficiency technology.

Over what would have traditionally been the 2011 – 2012 winter recess of the 112th Congress, the House of Representatives did not assent to recess, specifically to block Richard Cordray's appointment as Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

4173, the so-called Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2009, which included a revised version of the Treasury Department ’ s proposed legislation that would repeal the same provisions of the CFMA noted above.

The committee approved a competing, less comprehensive bill, the Consumer Access to Information Act, which dealt only with " time sensitive " information, and would have instructed the Federal Trade Commission to take action against unfair trade practices.

The bill would also require all crews to register with the Department of Agriculture, Trade, and Consumer Protection before going door to door in state communities.

Consumer Reports ran an article in April 2006 stating that hybrid vehicles would not pay for themselves over 5 years of ownership.

She would later serve as President Jimmy Carter's Director of the Office of Consumer Affairs.

On July 1, 2010, Christgau announced in the introduction to his Consumer Guide column that the July 2010 installment would be his last on MSN.

The Benefit Authors without Limiting Advancement or Net Consumer Expectations ( BALANCE ) Act of 2003 is a bill that would amend Title 17 of the United States Code, " to safeguard the rights and expectations of consumers who lawfully obtain digital entertainment.

A prototype of the full computer was shown to the public for the first time at the Summer Consumer Electronics Show in 1984.

Epyx first showed the Handy system at the Winter Consumer Electronics Show ( CES ) in January 1989.

Kazaa was introduced by the Dutch company Consumer Empowerment in March 2001, near the end of the first generation of P2P networks typified by the shutdown of Napster in July 2001.

The term PDA was first used on January 7, 1992 by Apple Computer CEO John Sculley at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada, referring to the Apple Newton.

* January – The world's first personal all-in-one computer ( keyboard / screen / tape storage ), the Commodore PET, is demonstrated at the Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago

Consumer psychologists suggest that most buyers tend to enter the store and shop to their right first.

It was first shown, privately, at the Chicago Consumer Electronics Show in 1977, and soon the company was receiving 50 calls a day from dealers wanting to sell the computer.

The BluFin India Consumer Confidence Index is the first monthly, statistically robust index of consumer sentiment in India.

The game was first shown by Bullet-Proof Software at the 1992 Consumer Electronics Show.

It is divided into two parts, the first being " The Consumer ", a series of short stories from the early 1990s, the second, " Various Traps, Some Weaknesses ", made up mostly of prose-poems and vignettes, all dating from 1983 – 1986.

Airborne's first of 30 total 767's arrived at Wilmington, and the airline won an award by The Business Consumer Guide.

We did Looking Back and Consumer Guide features that beat the competition out of sight, and we did this not just to surpass our rivals but because we reckoned that rock had finished its first wind around 1969 / 70 and deserved to be treated as history, as a canon of work.

The first ReplayTV model was introduced in January 1999 during the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, at the same time as a competing DVR model from rival company TiVo.

Perc, however, was incidentally the first chemical to be classified as a carcinogen by the Consumer Product Safety Commission ( a classification later withdrawn ).

Consumer privacy concerns date back to the first commercial couriers and bankers, who in every culture took strong measures to protect customer privacy, but also in every culture tended to be subject to very harsh punitive measures for failures to keep a customer's information private.

Many systems were sold in the New Orleans area in the ensuing years before the first public demonstration of this integration occurred in 1982 at the Summer Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago, Illinois.

On January 6, 2011, Los Angeles based technology company, Recom Group introduced the first small screen consumer application of the OLED at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

At the Consumer Electronics Show in 2012, Recom Group introduced the World's first Video Mic Flag incorporating three 2. 8 " OLED displays on a standard broadcasters mic flag.

The chip, like the first product using it ( the Commodore 64 ), was finished in time for the Consumer Electronics Show in the first weekend of January 1982.

Consumer prices doubled between May and August, alone, and though sharp, mandatory wage hikes had been negotiated between the government, labor and employers, the resulting shock ( known as the Rodrigazo ) ignited protest across Argentina, including a two-day general strike by the CGT ( the first ever against a Peronist administration ).

In 2009, the Consumer Price Index fell for the first time since 1955.

The well-known Nankai Institute of Economics was established in 1927 and soon became one of the most prominent in China being the first non-foreign entity to calculate a Chinese Consumer Price Index.