The Federal Trade Commission has revised its guidelines for developing apps targeting children. The move follows an FTC lawsuit against Amazon for allowing its apps to be too accommodating for children to make online purchases without parental consent.

Faculty at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business have summarized 2012 forecasts for individual sectors of the national economy. “Several important dynamics frame the 2012 economic outlook,” said Cliff Rossi, Tyser Teacher Fellow and executive-in-residence. These factors include:

P.K. Kannan, Harvey Sanders Associate Professor of Marketing and director of the Center for Excellence in Service, and Ai-Mei Chang, professor of systems management at UMUC , is studying how the web affects interactions between government agencies and the public.

Research by P.K. Kannan and Amna Kirmani Consumers are willing to buy multiple formats of content when they can count on consistent quality and use the formats in different ways.

January 11, 2011: MEDIA ALERT UMD Marketing Expert Says Verizon’s Success with iPhone Will Depend on Performance P.K. Kannan, Ralph J. Tyser Professor of Marketing Science and Chair, Department of Marketing at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business, reacts to Verizon Wireless’ announcement today that they will now carry Apple’s iPhone. He says the carrier’s success will depend on its network performance.

Research by P.K. Kannan

Broadcast Dates: Thursday, May 14, 2009, 7:30 p.m.Sunday, May 17, 2009, 7:30 a.m. Monday, May 18, 2009, 4:30 a.m. Economic woes have 73 percent of consumers cutting back on household expenditures, according to the Consumer Technology Pulse recently released by the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business and research firm Rockbridge Associates Inc.

College Park, Md. – June 24, 2008 – P.K. Kannan, Harvey Sanders Associate Professor of Marketing at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business, has won the John D.C. Little Award for co-authoring the paper "New Product Development Under Channel Acceptance," published in the March/April issue of Marketing Science. Kannan and his co-authors accepted the annually awarded prize and highest honor given by the College on Marketing of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) at the Marketing Science Conference on June 13.

Curt Grimm, Dean’s Professor of Supply Chain and Strategy, received his PhD in economics from the University of California-Berkeley, with primary focus on industrial organization.