Emachines will market its new desktop business systems through retailers, direct sales, and value-added resellers, Dukker says.

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That will put HP in more direct competition with IBM for value-added services.

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SanDisk today also unveiled a new worldwide distribution channel, "SanDisk for Business, " which offers OEM and enterprise-grade SSDs to value-added resellers (VARs), system integrators and direct market resellers (DMRs).

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In fact, most of the value-added uses for space today (GPS navigation, communications, direct broadcast TV and Radio, weather, photography and mapping) owe little to the Apollo program.

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It purchases products from over 100 OEMs, including Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, Lexmark, Xerox, Lenovo Group and Microsoft, and delivers them to 15, 000 value-added resellers, corporate resellers, government resellers, system integrators, direct marketers and retailers.

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Gulf States in the GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) are said to be considering plans for a value added tax (VAT) by 2015 while also lowering corporate tax rates to increase foreign direct investment, according to the Paying Taxes 2013 report conducted by the World Bank, IFC and PricewaterhouseCoopers.

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