Put them through a competitive bid process (sealed bid or auction), with pre-set milestones.
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Verizon Wireless bid at auction to acquire that spectrum, understanding that it was accompanied by open device and application obligations.
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Apple has taken the view the 800MHz and 2.6GHz bands, for which O2 and Vodafone and other operators will be able to bid at auction in spring 2013, are not "developed enough", according to Matthew Howett, an analyst with research firm Ovum.
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Twitter also dropped the minimum bid for its auction-based ad system from 50 cents to a penny.
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But many phone companies who are likely to bid at the auction think that kind of openness is a bad idea.
The complex will feature four restaurants, champagne and wine bars, an enormous wine store run by Majestic Wines, and opportunities to enrol in wine classes or bid in an auction.
Google will not only bid in the Federal Communications Commission's upcoming 700-megahertz wireless spectrum auction, but it will bid big, and win.
Under the auction, banks bid for dollars and know how much the central bank is selling that day.
Time was running short, with Borders set to address a bankruptcy judge early Thursday to seek approval of Mr. Najafi's bid and procedures for an auction next week.
The lawsuits against Chu and Kish are the first civil cases filed by SIIA against suspected pirates who find customers by sending e-mail to people who bid on software at Web auction sites.
Indeed, both Bradesco and Itau are registered to bid in a much-postponed auction for Banerj, the first of Brazil's state banks to be privatised.
That means, for example, you can't use it to pay for tickets to a charity dinner or bid for items at a charity auction.
Tuesday's winning bid came only several minutes before the auction closed at 4 pm ET.
Consequently, the auction process encourages companies to bid so low that they drive out legitimate suppliers.
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The deal could be disclosed as soon as Tuesday and would serve as the opening bid in a coming bankruptcy-court auction for the assets, which include Dolly Madison and other brands.
BusinessWeek is reporting that a couple of sources have relayed that Apple is contemplating a bid in next year's FCC auction for the coveted 700MHz band, spectrum being freed by the move from analog to digital television.
Someone else bid on the car in the September 2010 auction and then disappeared out the back door.
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"I always wondered why someone would come to an auction, raise their hand and bid, and decide not to pay afterward, " says Curiel.
Golf nuts got a chance to glimpse how their forbearers played the game last week at Sotheby's (nyse: BID - news - people ) auction house in New York.
Fans can bid on hundreds of items in an online auction, including attending a NASCAR race with WWE superstar John Cena, meeting Tyra Banks on the set of "America's Next Top Model, " or pitching entrepreneurial ideas to Mark Cuban.
The base at Neatishead, Norfolk, was put up for auction last week and received one anonymous bid.
In Adwords, businesses use an auction system on the Google site to bid for the most popularly searched words and phrases.
After a good deal of financial negotiations, creditors rejected a bid from Direct Brands and Borders filed for an auction.
Wroclaw, the fourth-largest city in Poland, won the photographs for 6.4 million zlotys, a record bid for any individual lot sold at a Polish auction, Windorbski said.
China is expected to put up 17 shale gas blocks for auction in the coming weeks in a bid to develop a robust shale gas industry.
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The so-called stalking horse bid could be topped by other suitors at the auction, in which case Apollo and Metropoulos would likely be entitled to what's known as a breakup fee.
El Al has seen cases in which friends traveling together bid against each other to see who can win the auction.
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