Patents can bolster a company's strategic position, and they can also attract partners.
Apple Inc. is still the world's most valuable company, a position it's held for more than a year.
The 30-year venture to treat the potentially deadly gases in Bab also puts Europe's largest energy company in a strong position to renew its role in the UAE's largest onshore oil concession, on which the Bab field stands, when that contract comes up for renewal early next year.
By the middle of the last decade, overseas contract orders exceeded domestic sales, and the company's position as a major player in the international telecoms market was cemented.
Jack Remondi was named the company s CFO, a return to a position he held from 2001 to 2005, while the company shedded its government-sponsored enterprise status to become a private company in 2004.
The investment is "part of Huawei's long term commitment to position its operations in India as a hub for the company's global operations, " said Ross Gan, a spokesman from the Shenzhen-based company.
If they'd managed to get a fake deal with their chums on a company's preference shares, that was how their position was valued.
This kind of use of Google's technology puts the company in a position where it could be seen as siding politically with the organisations featured in a partciualr layer.
With a 17% stake, a position on ImClone's nine-member board and a partnership to market the company's blockbuster cancer drug Erbitux, Bristol-Myers isn't just any shareholder.
While there are limitations in using higher bandwidth spectrum in terms of penetrating buildings and covering large geographic areas, Clearwire controls a bigger spectrum position that almost any U.S. company.
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David Krell , ISE's chief executive officer, said stock trading would add breadth to the company's product offerings and position it to capture a greater share of equities trading volume.
This puts the company in a strong position for the future, despite last year's investigation by Congress.
The purchase, which raises Yukos's holding in the company to a controlling 54%, strengthens its position in Russia as second only to Lukoil as an oil producer.
Amazon's position as a leading online retailer of books helped the company offer a wide selection of e-books to Kindle buyers that were competitively priced and easy to download.
Three-quarters of the company's sales are of nitrogen fertilizers, and it has a big position in domestic production, with two of the three largest nitrogen fertilizer plants in North America.
Marshall Murphy, spokesman for Exelon's nuclear business, said his company "is not in a position to talk about" the Japan accident or its similar units, a list that includes its Quad Cities plant in Cordova, Ill.
Nine years later I moved to DC and, after failing to score a job with USAID as my intention had been, I had the fortune to land a position with a private company who was hired by the U.S. government to help train the Afghan National Army.
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Hsieh, 42, is the president of online lender lendingtree.com, a position he attained two and a half years ago following the company's acquisition of homeloancenter.com, the mortgage lender he founded in 2002.
He decided to look outside his company, and now he's in the final round of interviews for a position at a business school.
Following the company's latest deployment of a commercial LTE dongle, Samsung reasserts its industry-leading position in next generation mobile technology with the largest line-up of devices.
In his first appearance before Congress, Microsoft President Bill Gates said his company's dominant position was due to rapid changes in technology, not a desire to monopolize the computer industry.
During his tenure, he and Tunnell's representatives got to know one another, and in 2003 the company created a position for him.
It is believed Virgin's managers feel the business would be in a better position to grow as a private company, BBC business editor Robert Peston says.
"We don't take a position or a side in the views expressed by the organisations, " says the company's Rebecca Moore.
With the strong support of his board and an another supposedly positive earnings call coming later today, it's hard to call Steve's position as "shaky" at the company, but with whispers of infighting, a symbolic battle with Apple over market capitalization, and a do-or-die mobile launch coming up, it's clear that he's under a lot of pressure to deliver.
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Canada's highest court is moving to settle a dispute over the buyout of the country's largest telecom company that could set an important precedent on the legal position of bondholders.
Instead, try to position yourself for a raise at your next review by asking for opportunities to contribute to the company's growth, says Mr. Summer.
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