Nokia got a taste of their wares back in 2004, but today announced they were buying Loudeye outright.
Right now Plank is trying to sell other companies on letting Apache manage their oilfields, instead of buying them outright.
So in reality the cost of many cloud based applications is higher in the long term than just buying something outright.
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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Alternatively, strategists could be hedging short positions in the stock, reducing the cost of protection by establishing call spreads rather than simply buying calls outright.
Parker was also interested in buying Chatroulette outright, sources told me.
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It's illegal under federal law to pay doctors directly for referrals or to refer to a clinic in which a doctor has a financial stake, so Dosoretz has been busy buying practices outright, which is fine by regulators as long as he does not overpay.
Eventually, this type of buying will run its course and a market could stall without fresh outright buying.
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If possible, it negotiates easements as a cheaper alternative to buying the properties outright.
But buying technology companies outright is another, perhaps faster, way to do it.
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Mr Brown is convinced that convergence in the energy industry may lead to some oil firms buying power firms outright.
Whole ownership involves buying an aircraft outright and placing it into service.
Again, each payment goes toward buying the system outright, and a typical family will have paid for it after 18 months of use.
The verbal intervention, coupled with the unveiling of an open-ended sovereign bond-buying program (Outright Monetary Transactions, or OMT) pushed skyrocketing yields across the PIIGS down dramatically.
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Smith added that some might have anticipated some kind of quantitative easing, or fresh outright buying of Treasury securities, on top of the action the Fed did take.
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These include building stadiums, buying cars and outright fraud.
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He then announced a bond-buying plan (Outright Monetary Transactions, or OMT) that, coupled with strong hints by Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke had his finger on the QE-trigger, sparked an impressive risk rally.
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Retailers may be better off paying for a vendor's services or taking a stake in an early-stage startup rather than buying the firm outright, says Richard Brail, managing director at investment bank Peter J.
Only a few weeks ago, ECB chief Mario Draghi announced his own open ended bond-buying plan, dubbed Outright Monetary Transaction.
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Options on futures are an alternative to buying a futures contract outright.
Another criticism is that the ECB has not done more to ease credit conditions by buying government and corporate bonds outright, as the Bank of England and the Fed have done.
If the U.S. gets into outright deflation, I expect the Fed to react by increasing their assets and by outright monetization, buying treasuries from insurance and other companies, as putting more money into banks when they are not lending does not seem to be helpful as far as deflation is concerned.
Partnering with or buying Bayer's drug division outright would also give it a bigger share of Levitra sales.
The currency outright is expected to find strong buying interest on pullbacks, as the market anticipates further easing measures at future meetings, and of the arrival of a more dovish BoJ governor in April.
Only 27% considered the iPad an outright replacement, while only 14% said buying an iPad delayed another purchase.
The trader significantly decreased the cost of taking a directional stance on the stock by employing a call spread instead of buying the closer-to-the-money calls outright.
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But predictions for when the country would turn to the eurozone's rescue fund -- triggering the ECB's Outright Monetary Transactions (OMT) bond-buying programme -- have repeatedly proved wrong.
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 new confidence around the euro stems largely from the ECB's commitment to Outright Monetary Transactions (OMT) - to acting as a backstop for countries in the markets by buying their government debt.
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