The largest marketing-database companies in the U.S. include Acxiom, Alliance Data Systems Corp.
Another company that Sakhrani says could be significantly impacted by the fee change is Alliance Data Systems.
Other competitors in the financial sector include: Alliance Data Systems Corporation (ADS), MasterCard (MA), and American Express (AXP).
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Blackstone Group 's ( BX - news - people ) acquisition of Alliance Data Systems while selling the stock short.
On the left point are companies that measure the actions and preferences of individual consumers such as Epsilon (owned by Alliance Data) Acxiom and Experian.
Among the largest underlying components of FAS, in trading today Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. ( NYSE: ARE) is down about 2%, Alleghany Corp. ( NYSE: Y) is up about 0.5%, and Alliance Data Systems Corp. ( NYSE: ADS) is higher by about 0.5%.
Will it be big, stand-alone (mostly) boxes by EMC, pure networking schemes like Network Appliance or hybrids from the new Hitachi Data Systems and Sun alliance?
Earlier this morning, 5 of the larger HIT vendors announced a collaborative effort around data exchange called the commonwell Health Alliance.
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For TV's with data-sharing standard DLNA (Digital Living Network Alliance) compatibility, the SE-208BW features DLNA Apps, such as Allshare, which enables users to view drive content through the TV menu to play multimedia files on CDs and DVDs.
But Data Distilleries has one big advantage: a strategic alliance with Accenture (previously Andersen Consulting), a global consulting group that also owns an equity stake and is busily putting its new partner in touch with senior managers in client companies.
The LG V300 also includes full support for Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) to enable sharing of data between devices as well as Intel's Wireless Display, also known as 'Wi-Di' to wirelessly stream content to a TV.
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Now in an alliance with IBM, it can provide advanced analytics on the data prior to visualization to provide greater insights.
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Interestingly, Koppel was directed to a white paper with data on horse abandonment by John Holland, president of the Equine Welfare Alliance, presumably to round out the WSJ piece that would appear later that week.
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Cisco will soon start selling servers, and has formed an alliance with several smaller hardware and software firms to build, in effect, a data centre in a box.
The Better Business Bureau's Wise Giving Alliance has a free Web site, www.give.org, which pulls together data on hundreds of U.S. nonprofits.
As reported by the Wireless Broadband Alliance, smartphone sales have overtaken PC sales in 2012 and in the future will dwarf the amount of data used by laptops.
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