Exchanges also are permitted to distribute customized market data products directly to customers.

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So what I think is needed in the short term, very much so and almost desperately, is first the ability of the government and responsibility of the government to command and receive on a continuing basis significant market data about all sorts of products and services whether they are regulated or not.

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Not to be left behind the upstarts, Brocade, IBM, and HP all announced products aimed at the big data market.

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It competes with IBM, EMC, NetApp, Hewlett-Packard and Hitachi Data Systems in the storage hardware market by selling products like flash drives, magneto-optical drives, magnetic tape drives and compact drives that are used for backing up data on servers.

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It allows entrepreneurs to quickly get products and service offerings into the market to collect real-time data and feedback.

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One smart proposal has at least some support from both sides: a confidential data-collection system to identify defective products that are still on the market, track cases and determine how well the directive is working.

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One smart proposal has at least some support from both sides: transparency, a confidential data-collection system to identify defective products that are still on the market, track cases and determine how well the directive is working.

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Cox Communication used GIS software from MapInfo to combine data about its customers, service offerings and broad demographics to figure out what products to market where and even where to build its networks next.

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New empirical techniques in merger evaluation, fed by scanner data and advances in the econometrics of differentiated products, are genuinely productive tools for estimating the market power of merged firms.

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