Meanwhile, a big offering on tap is FireEye, a leader focusing on next-generation threat protection, focused on stopping advanced malware and zero-day and persistent attacks that bypass traditional cyber defenses.
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Here in Britain, a group of eight companies, household names all, including Barclays Bank and British Gas, are running a big campaign offering costumers various ways to cut carbon emissions.
In the DC area, big builders are offering up to 30% discounts on their fancy homes.
It will also be easier to spot big bettors, offering them tickets to shows or dinner reservations.
Of course, a highly motivated carrier could decide to take a major hit by offering big rebates or promotions.
Zane is talking to telecom providers and other big firms about offering the service to their customers and employees.
And Swartz has engaged these big companies by offering its software, dubbed MetraNet, either through a perpetual or term-based license or as a managed service.
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David Maister, a leading adviser to professional-service firms and a former academic at Harvard Business School, says that there is a yawning gap between what the big firms are offering and what their corporate clients want.
With 10-year Treasury bills offering pitiful yields, a lot of investors are no doubt perusing the charts for big, solid companies offering hearty dividends.
Flubs include allowing for more orders than can be delivered on time, buying more inventory than an entrepreneur can sell and offering too big a discount.
But just as often, free spending clubs get burned by offering long-term deals to big name stars, since landing such players usually necessitates offering more years than the player has left in him productivity-wise.
Datamark, a start-up in London, has begun offering a more big-brotherish approach with software designed for use by picture libraries.
He schmoozed owners of big marine equipment outfits, offering them a 10% cut for every new member they signed up (industry retailer Boaters World brought in 10, 000 or so last year).
With the new platforms, he is able to get in on these deals, alongside big- name investors, offering smaller amounts than he had to before, and without any special invitation to do so.
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Haitong pulled its offering last fall amid market turmoil and then, when it came back to the market, pushed the nine bankers on the offering to find big investors to buy shares or risk being thrown off the deal.
For instance, Yahoo has been offering some tracks from big artists - I mean, Norah Jones, Jessica Simpson - as MP3s.
Unfortunately, one-fifth of shares that began public trading in the 1990s have declined more than 90% from their offering price, what big institutional investors and Wall Street insiders paid before the company went public.
On the Internet platform, companies get developers by offering them access to big databases they could not afford on their own (such as map coordinates, calendar information or sales tracking information) and letting them build things against it.
The SGH-T639 for T-Mobile looks like a fitting big sib to the Stripe, offering Bluetooth, a 1.3 megapixel camera, 220 x 176 primary display, changeable faceplates, and microSD expansion with 30MB on board -- all curiously without any mention of that beloved AWS band WCDMA we (and the FCC) heard this phone would rock.
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Cornelia is only the most recent offering in the increasingly diverse Big Apple spa market.
The deal means Amazon is now the only company offering tracks from all four big music companies free of DRM.
By virtue of its size and authority, every new online offering it creates will make big ripples in Web traffic, Sterling adds.
Branch-based players entering the industry in the last 10 years have grown only slowly despite offering better terms than the big four.
So for round two of the push to 3D, some big players in the TV industry are offering up alternatives to active-shutter sets.
But when a company gets to a critical mass with its product offering, then there are big-time benefits from the heft and credibility of a strategic investor.
Rather, it'll be be those traditional and not-so-traditional CE players offering set top boxes with big disks and HD video on demand that form the roots of your demise.
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For that to happen the big retail chains would have to start offering a sliding scale of discounts or other incentives to consumers at the cash register for using one card instead of another, or cash.
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What is more, the government bought big employers' agreement to the law by offering tax breaks.
Now many are thinking that the next big product would be a revamped Apple TV offering.
Ms. Rees-Mogg, who has five full-time employees, says cost was a big factor in recently choosing SAP's offering.
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