For Boeing, running a consumer service company is a break from tradition as well.
According to the CBI, the number of people employed in bars, restaurants and other consumer service businesses fell over the quarter.
The question is, can you actually achieve better integration, better streamlining, better efficiency, and ultimately better consumer service and better payoff for taxpayers.
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However, what few American investors are aware of is that Taobao is really using its popular consumer-to-consumer service to slingshot its business-to-consumer business.
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Its Tmall business-to-consumer service, where they can charge up to 15% take-rates for certain products in certain prime locations on the website is also a growing force.
When a communications system becomes a new consumer service, it benefits society: businesses can offer their goods and consumers can express their opinions simultaneously, giving everyone more choice.
While some of the slowdown came primarily from a decline in farm inventories, due to the drought in the mid-west, consumer service spending, exports and durable goods all declined as well.
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"We agree that social networks provide a valuable consumer service, but that they also raise privacy concerns, " an FTC spokesperson said, adding that it had already brought several cases against social networks.
It also has GPS for tracking your location, and fully supports over-the-air synchronization of email, contacts and calendars -- through Microsoft Exchange in corporations or via a similar new consumer service from Apple called MobileMe.
Founded in 2000 as a wholly owned subsidiary of TMC, Toyota Media Service is a consumer IT service provider for Toyota automotive customers that actualizes the connected, in-car experience.
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But both look cheap compared with consumer-service companies like McDonald's, which sells at 28 times forecast earnings.
New consumer cloud service works across devices to help busy people simplify their lives and get more done.
Mayer has received several awards, including the Betty Furness Consumer Media Service Award.
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The trial is part of a rapidly growing consumer-service trend of skipping cash, and even credit cards, in favor of a quick tap from a mobile phone.
Apple has executed and leveraged a retail strategy with unique success. iTunes is the most highly utilized consumer cloud service: it is unequalled as a content delivery platform, and Apple has special relationships with the music and video industries.
Last month, the Consumer Credit Counselling Service (CCCS) said that the cost of consumer credit licences should be raised in order to deter loan sharks and other unscrupulous lenders.
We have made it very easy to exit and rejoin our service and believe that this type of consumer-friendly approach to providing our service has benefited our overall consumer appeal.
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Earlyman is focused on consumer brands and service firms, specializing in branding, positioning and marketing.
He decided to seek help and joined a debt elimination program with the Consumer Credit Counseling Service.
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Thanks to the Consumer Credit Counselling Service his creditors are currently kept at bay with very small payments.
And this is significant because a voucher program puts the power into the hands of the consumer of the service.
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Instead, she was directed to the debt management program of the nonprofit Consumer Credit Counseling Service, part of Money Management International.
It will be a mixture of the worker, the pensioner, the public service consumer, the taxpayer and the banker - and all politics right now is about what the mix should be.
WePay is a consumer-focused service that makes it easy for groups to quickly set up joint accounts, multiple ones if needed, to simplify the tedious task of money collection for trips or events.
Otherwise, layers of hidden sales taxes can get built into the final product or service the consumer buys.
Google expects a consumer version of the service to be available in 2014.
It runs the consumer e-mail service for dozens of carriers worldwide and recently bought a Web photo- and video-sharing site called Twango.
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