There may be a smaller vendor among these dozens whose technology is just as solid and whose vision and culture is better aligned with the acquiring company.
The Internet may not be about to take over, but at these prices, it's hard to imagine how a PC vendor can be a sales leader without an Internet distribution strategy.
On Tuesday shares in Akamai Technologies, a software company that helps media to stream quickly, fell 4.8% on speculations that it would be dropped as a vendor by Netflix.
Essentially, through these types of affiliation agreements, a vendor can be considered to have established an in-state sales force.
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By integrating all these parts of the company, HP hopes to be known less as a hardware vendor, and more as a higher-margin strategic partner on big projects.
Retailers may be better off paying for a vendor's services or taking a stake in an early-stage startup rather than buying the firm outright, says Richard Brail, managing director at investment bank Peter J.
Video can be a great way to give a reference for an employee or vendor.
It's a little like the urban legend about a garment vendor who sent a designer coat overseas to be copied, only to get back 10, 000 coats with an identical stain on the sleeve.
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There will be some required purchases: some items, you will be required to procure from a specified vendor.
You can also refer a vendor who might be interested.
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He said the timing of any agreement would be a matter for the galleries and the vendor.
If trustees are not permitted to limit their liability to pensions or pension participants, why should any vendor to a pension be so permitted?
Every agreement, item, code and vendor must be manually put into a Word form.
Be sure that the vendor you select offers a true, shared multi-tenant platform that can grow (or shrink) with your business and budgetary needs as they evolve.
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At GM, he consolidated SAP systems, which should give him more clout with customers "Microsoft has wanted to be viewed like IBM--a strategic enterprise vendor, " Helm says.
And in the case of energy service providers, whether a utility or another vendor, there are a range of questions about how that data could be used that must be answered to avoid the mis-steps and abuses of privacy that we have seen from some social media sites.
To be sure, struggling server vendor Sun Microsystems sounded a downbeat note during its earnings call last week, sending technology shares broadly lower.
Earlier this year, names and sensitive medical information for over 20, 000 Stanford Hospital emergency room patients were discovered to be available online, thanks to the carelessness of a vendor that Stanford worked with.
The dream is that, eventually, everything about you--name, address, Social Security number, credit card accounts, medical history and more--will be instantly recognized and ready for secure delivery to a vendor with whom you'd like to do business.
Of course, getting into a vendor tent Saturday afternoon is proving to be a challenge.
Even in a bad economy, the cheapest vendor may not be worth it if their services are subpar.
SlideRocket, an online presentation vendor just bought by VMware, can be used as a tripwire to indicate whether a consumer viewed a presentation.
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"From a vendor's perspective, it's good to be in the top five and better to be in the top three, " says Milanesi.
It is vital that they are built in a such a way that they can be deployed according to user needs, not vendor dictates.
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Even after the fraud detection third party vendor flags a transaction as fraudulent, every attempt should be made to ensure a wrong denial is not made.
Samsung appears to be the primary vendor in the Android ecosystem which continues to grow share with a comprehensive product portfolio and aggressive pricing.
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As a result, the Hearsay Social Enterprise Architecture is thought to be the only vendor with proven scale, for brands with high volumes of social media pages.
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