Some insiders even believe the group buying model will never make money in China due to heavy competition.
He considered buying an advanced SLR model from Nikon but opted for a mirrorless model from Sony.
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Instead of buying parts for his Model Ts from suppliers--each with its own price markup--he could keep cars affordable by making the parts himself.
Both Hewlett-Packard 's (nyse: HPQ - news - people ) Utility Data Center model and Sun Microsystems ' (nasdaq: SUNW - news - people ) N1 approach stress filling computers with the heaviest possible workloads--a change from the standard model of buying new servers when they run at 30% of capacity, for fear of hitting the occasional spike in activity.
The Premji foundation is buying its own land for its model schools rather than renting.
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Are they willing to prove their readiness to accept a different ideal of beauty by buying a magazine featuring a amputee model.
And if you're thinking of buying a full-body glass model like Mrs.
Many car buyers wait for a second- or third-generation of a model of interest before buying to give the makers a chance to smooth out undetected problems.
The Groupon business model is that the person buying a Groupon for a discounted service pays Groupon directly.
Bilton then shows how the 99-cent iTunes model got people pirating less and buying more.
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Today, the Air Force is buying hundreds of Reaper drones, a newer model, whose video feeds could be intercepted in much the same way as with the Predators, according to people familiar with the matter.
However, the lack of a chance to try before buying can be a huge downside to this mail order model.
The game hopes to earn revenue using freemium model in which consumers have the option of buying in-app currency should they wish to fast-track through the game.
The quant fund model over at ClearStream Investments in Boston has been buying in and out of the big emerging markets for the last month, but never convinced to hold onto those equities packed in the popular exchange traded funds for longer than a couple of weeks, tops.
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Because I think the Anglo-American model will win, I think fortunes will be made buying the euro at depressed levels.
While the studies may be disparate in nature, we do see a common thread in all of them: that the issue may not really be piracy, but the effects modern technology has had on buying habits- habits based on immediate availability as opposed to an economic model based on physical copies.
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Does the fact that the buying portion of the public is football fans change this time-honored success model?
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Why was H-P buying it, was the price realistic, would it fit into an existing business model?
Their model of copying the most popular games on the market, or simply buying them outright, has yielded less than stellar results as of late.
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This is your rollout of the new product offerings, business model updates, and process changes to map to the new understanding of the customer buying process.
With its asset-light, debt-free business model, the transport and logistics company is taking advantage of lower costs and prices, buying up businesses and stretching its reach to become the premier courier service linking the emerging and fast growing Asian and African economies.
The combined forces of the Software-as-a-Service deployment model, the role of Salesforce.com as the master data aggregator and integration point, buying habits of marketing departments and cooperative efforts among vendors have created a situation in which IT plays almost no role in supporting the use of marketing technologies.
But Enterprise Inns said the tied house model was working for thousands of publicans, offering a "low cost of entry", as buying a lease was far cheaper than having to purchase the building outright.
"The idea of buying a company, moving it to Redmond, making it part of 'the Borg' is no longer the model, " he says, referring to Microsoft's unflattering corporate nickname.
Beware of buying golf clubs for your giftee, unless you have very specific marching orders, such as a particular new driver model with a certain shaft, loft, lie angle and grip size.
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