It boosted the growth at two of his businesses, Health Plans Today (a marketer of health insurance) and Speed Anywhere (a broadband buying service).
The company also owns and operates its own gaming platform, a group buying service called Nuomi, a video sharing site called 56.com and a professional networking site similar to LinkedIn called jingwei.com.
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Instead of spending a loathsome afternoon with a salesman, customers of Auto-by-Tel, the leading Internet car-buying service, simply tell the service what kind of car they want, and wait for nearby dealerships to make their best offer.
In Japan, where Softbank is the favored partner for U.S. high-tech firms, Microsoft introduced CarPoint, its Internet auto locator service after offering 50% to Softbank and another 10% to Yahoo Japan, where CarPoint will be the exclusive car-buying service.
He suggests buying energy service companies, particularly those involved in deep offshore drilling.
The fund held a big chunk of cash for a while before going out to the fringes of the sector and buying tech service providers.
This, he seems to be saying, creates a moral void, and in that void the financial community is buying into the service infrastructure around us, like energy generation, in a way that makes us ever more vulnerable to their needs.
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By wrapping the entire purchasing process in a hashtag, the service makes buying fast and easy.
Conceivably, he hears about it when a secretary gets shoddy service while buying sneakers in the Finish Line or another employee comes across a great wireless gadget over the weekend.
But he too brought no market guidance or new direction to HP, merely continuing with adjacent market expansion by buying a traditional IT service organization (EDS) to support field-based PCs.
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For now, EarthLink doesn't plan any changes to the PeoplePC service, though it says it can use its buying power to turn a profit on that service.
Extra tax guidance for more than 35 life events, including college, marriage, military service, home buying, and job changes.
Skype is buying the group-messaging service GroupMe , just a year after it was founded by Jared Hecht and Steve Martocci.
An insurance company, for example, could hone its underwriting expertise and deliver this as a web service, while buying in credit-rating, human-resource or news services from other providers.
Sensing the need for clubs in markets big and small to provide the service, the company rolled out a "managed service" option, with which teams essentially lease the service instead of buying.
The Groupon business model is that the person buying a Groupon for a discounted service pays Groupon directly.
In addition, VMware has championed much open source software creation, buying SpringSource, a tools and service provider for open source communities.
They are providing a product or service that you are buying.
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The postal service helps employees move by buying their homes and selling them at a loss.
Whole ownership involves buying an aircraft outright and placing it into service.
The revelation followed a BBC report which found that every service in the UK has started buying specialist equipment to deal with the increasing number of overweight patients.
Nandon Unikrishnnan, director of the Eurasia Research Fund Observer, told the BBC that India wants to reassess its arms-buying process so as to include delivery and service in a single package.
Our tipsters have told us that the company is pitching (via a survey, of course) to hit three price points for customers, each fee buying a smartphone and the first month's service.
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Instead he is trusting the "many little make one big" approach of buying little firms like Blogger, a personal publishing service, or Keyhole, the basis for the popular Google Earth service, which has more than 100 million users.
He and his research team are in the final stages of developing a PlatinumFish, for those who think that gold is a little downmarket, and they soon expect to be able to match any metallic shade that a fish-fancier fancies (though this service will be significantly more expensive than buying an off-the-shelf colour).
Look for a boom in team buying and cyber-fleet sales. n Brand and service will not protect companies from rude, disruptive change.
Mr Milburn also announced that older people in need of care could choose whether to have a direct service or cash to cover the cost of buying care.
Accidentally omit income and you could be buying yourself grief sometime next year when the Internal Revenue Service starts matching billions of W-2s and 1099s against income taxpayers have put on their 1040s for 2010.
The service center advised that I could ship the unit to them for repair. (Now, this is a mixer that is heavy with a capital H.) The CSR at the service center also explained that I would be buying the entire assembly.
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