The proposal to buy information from outside vendors could raise privacy, as opposed to paperwork, concerns.
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This ambiguity serves him well, though, because his first loyalty is to his company, and both Democrats and Republicans buy information technology.
Sahlman pointed out that the goal here is to buy information as inexpensively and quickly as possible by building prototypes, observing how customers react to them, and adapting accordingly.
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Software companies themselves can also buy information about flaws in their own programs, but rarely do, for fear that offering a bounty would only draw more hackers to their products.
The latest urgent call: Buy the information technology stocks and bail out of the stodgy utility sector.
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When you buy inside information from rogue employees at law firms working on deals, you corrupt the whole process.
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And in February, consumer data company ChoicePoint (nyse: CPS - news - people ) revealed that it had been taken in by a ring of identity thieves who used fake business licenses to buy personal information concerning 145, 000 people.
The officials had federal approval to buy stolen bank information leaked from Credit Suisse in 2010, a move that triggered a wave of tax declarations by Germans seeking to avoid tax evasion charges.
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The more books you buy and the more information you give Amazon about your tastes, the better it will become at finding things you might like.
If an insurance company decides to charge you higher rates based on information they buy about your magazine subscriptions, would they have to let you know?
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So far, no one has solved the most basic drawback: Most people regard TV as an entertainment box and the Internet as a separate place to get information or to buy things.
This is affecting your IT just as much as your business: As an indicator, Forrester finds that 48% of information workers already buy whatever smartphone they want and use it for work purposes.
So far, no one has solved the most basic drawback: Most people regard TV as an entertainment box and the Internet as a separate place to get information or to buy things like books and airplane tickets.
Many buy-siders already believe abusing information is all too often in a day's work on Wall Street.
For people less familiar with online shopping, the package includes a multimedia tutorial from U.S. Robotics with information on how to buy online and on various security issues.
That's because forming a joint venture with a company before trying to buy it gives a company inside information about the target's worth and the value of the research it is seeking to acquire.
Many consumers, in the market for big-ticket electronic items, shop Best Buy stores and then use the information and advice received to make informed on-line purchases at lower prices from retailers with less overhead than Best Buy.
Investors utilize all of that information when deciding whether to buy a stock.
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Like many consumer apps, Chemical Cuisine is made to use while shopping to access more information on the products we buy.
An Internet ad banner provides a direct link to the advertiser's site, offering interested consumers an easy way to go there for more information or an opportunity to buy.
Yet we continue to buy paper because we believe we give readers information on it that they need and give advertisers markets they desire to reach.
LeMond and his in-laws, minority shareholders in the Yellowstone Club, claimed that Tim had withheld financial information from them and tried to buy back their shares for far less than they were worth.
In a recent research report, Morgan noted that two-thirds of 50 chief information officers surveyed expect to either buy tablets for some of their employees within 12 months or allow employee-owned tablets onto their networks.
Buy-side firms are asking for more information on where trades are executed but the data from brokers is hard to use, not standardized and filled with gaps such as how long the broker held a trade to try executing it in its own dark pool before sending it on.
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My guess is that your best sales person is someone who sets the stage for the customer to buy simply by being available when the customer wants information.
When viewing an episode of TV's Mad Men, for example, consumers could tap on objects, such as Don Draper's hat, to get more information about the items and where to buy them.
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