On Sun's part, the acquisition gives the server and software company a database offering that is capable of storing and manipulating the information used by its software tools, a role it has largely handed to Oracle.
And Oracle, the software, hardware, and database company, recently announced its Cloud API managing infrastructure.
The database company ProQuest digitized old New York Times stories from 1851 on.
Testifying in January, Sobelson said Pfizer probably bought that information from a database company that in turn buys prescriptions from pharmacies.
There, with technology first developed in the 1960s for a local Air Force base, 1, 000 engineers work to hone the company's database search systems.
The new service is Advice IQ, the only financial service and database company that performs advisory due diligence work across all primary U.S. regulators.
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Billy Bosworth, chief executive of San Mateo-based database company DataStax Inc.
After the breach, Fidelity revealed that the culprit was an employee at the payment processing company, one whose job granted him access to the company's database.
Among the first to go were Metromail, a direct-mail-database company, and Donnelley Enterprise Solutions, which ran copy departments and mail rooms for law firms and the like.
One stock that Gibbons is particularly bearish on is Incyte (nasdaq: INCY - news - people), the first gene database company and one of Celera's rivals.
Square believes the future of payments isn't swiping a card but merely giving a cashier your name, which is stored within the company's database and linked to a credit card.
Houston's Compaq is developing the supercomputing technology in collaboration with genetic database company Celera Genomics (nyse: CRA - news - people) and the Department of Energy's Sandia National Labs.
The simplest, cheapest way to add customers to your company's database is by asking every paying customer for their e-mail address--no matter if the sale was made face-to-face, by phone or online.
Another feature called "Expert On-Demand, " sorts through a company's database of experts to create a video connection between a user--say, a confused customer in a bank's branch office--and the person best suited to answer his or her questions on any given topic.
After all, the company has an unparalleled database of student loan payment behavior, vital in predicting delinquencies.
It lost more than circulation revenue, too, since Reader's Digest exists so that the company can mine its database to cross-sell books, videos and CDs.
Should prosecutors be allowed to subpoena a company's DNA database of thousands of people if they suspect it contains a match to a crime suspect?
Mining the company's rich database to develop compelling customer initiatives.
By automatically linking a company's edits with a database of its registered trademarks, Wikiwatcher can automatically flag a company editing its own entries.
The company split itself in two, one half publishing the magazine and the other managing the mainframe database of content that powered the magazine (and eventually, on-screen listings.) Benefitting, perhaps, from the fact that the content of the magazine was highly structured (and repetitive) to begin with, the database part of the company set out to abstract the ongoing production of the listings from their printed form.
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Supporting this infrastructure the company offers cloud-based database, social networking, analytics, and even a new social networking analysis service.
It found that the site did not have record company permission to create the database that makes this service possible.
The company wanted to create a database archive for its operational data systems as it was filling up its storage capacity.
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The US Senate has been hearing testimony from executives at LexisNexis, a database and information company owned by publishing giant Reed Elsevier.
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In just a little more than a year, the company has built a menu database that enables it to know pricing details at almost every restaurant across the United States, says Marcus.
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To provide answers that aren't already in Google's ever-expanding database, the company will blend new semantic-search technology with its current system to better recognize the value of information on websites and figure out which ones to show in search results.
Nielsen says it was unable to remove the scraped data from its database, but a company spokesman later said Nielsen had found a way to quarantine the PatientsLikeMe data to prevent it from being included in its reports for clients.
In this new world of immediate experience and gratification, the database is rapidly becoming the company.
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Quietly, a little company called Locu has built up a database of over half a million businesses in the restaurant industry.
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