Anonymous bidders suggest designs, a process that lets companies quickly spot the most talented prospects.
It grew to 100, 000 bidders in ten months, and thousands more advertisers are still signing up.
Mr Brown made the funding announcement as he unveiled the shortlist of bidders for the contract.
The deal was costly: King paid four times revenue, edging out more than 15 bidders.
Consequently, there were fewer bidders and more opportunity for value creation for the eventual acquirer.
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Experts say the challenges of building out such a network has scared bidders away.
Britain's BAE Systems, Rolls-Royce and others will share in the profits whichever US bidders is chosen.
Not all of the executives will get winning bidders the same amount of time.
Pipeline politics and eager Asian bidders may leave the United States literally out in the cold.
Cohen is also one of the leading bidders to buy the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Gazprom promised this week to come up with a short list of five bidders for Shtokman.
Gauna cites Intel, Qualcomm, Cisco, Huawei and ZTE as potential bidders.
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We met the bidders and gave them every chance to make improvements to their applications.
Westview recently competed with 25 bidders, nearly all investors, for a three-bedroom home in Escondido.
Analysts pointed to big drug firms like Pfizer, GlaxoSmithKline, and AstraZeneca as potential bidders.
The carrier had said it was in talks with a number of potential bidders.
Though there were many star-struck fans who won auctions, just as many winning bidders were businesses.
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Russia was selected ahead of co-bidders Spain-Portugal and Holland-Belgium and England, which won only two votes.
Of the mooted bidders, Wrigley is keenest on Halls, to cut its reliance on gum.
One compromise might be for the bidders to invite local or mainland partners into their consortia.
Bidders have until 1000 BST on 13 June to put their tenders forward for Ark Royal.
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John Leibovitz is executive vice president at Frontline Technologies, which is among the bidders.
The Bracknell-based firm was chosen from six bidders including private companies by NHS Berkshire.
Many bidders are brokers like Sotiris Vogiatzis, a 43-year-old skin dealer from Kastori??, Greece.
The bidders say they hope to have the products back in stores as soon as possible.
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Bayer has already been approached by potential bidders, rumored to include Aventis, Roche, GlaxoSmithKline and Novartis.
Bidders had until 23 January to register an interest in the former Devonport-based ships.
The potential bidders are waiting for Railtrack's administrators to make information on the company's finances available.
The BBC's Robert Peston says all four bidders were given erroneous information by civil servants.
With some misgivings, we required our bidders to propose a largely generic prescription program.
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