But if you have the technical know-how, why not try your hand at creating the next great gadget or electronic service?
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This gem, however, traded in a nether region of the investing world called the OTC Bulletin Board, a newly popular electronic service that links marketmakers in the shares of small companies.
Infosys developed Dell Computer Japan's website and is designing the electronic investment service site in Europe for Franklin Templeton's mutual fund operation.
The match will be shown on the website www.ukrainevengland.com and viewers will be able to subscribe to it using PayPal, the electronic payment service.
Later this year it will add computer-packaged stock portfolios (of the sort pioneered by FolioFN) and then electronic advice service, with combined debit and credit cards to follow.
You upload it to your electronic signature service provider.
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Shares in the 35 suspended firms - which are not traded on stock exchanges - are listed instead on the so-called Pink Sheets electronic quotation service, which does not require brokers to investigate the background of the companies.
In the past two months Solectron, the biggest of them also known as electronic manufacturing service (EMS) companies announced that it would miss analysts' revenue targets for the current quarter and lay off 9, 000 employees, 11% of its work force.
Perhaps not in some derivatives products, where counterparty risks make an electronic-broking service difficult, but certainly in bond markets.
Meltwater is a 12-year-old electronic news clipping service that helps its clients monitor how they are covered in the press.
The company is a 12-year-old electronic news clipping service that helps its clients monitor how they are covered in the press.
The electronic mobile parking service ParkNow allows users to reserve a parking space in advance, at a guaranteed, clearly-defined rate in accordance with the driver's personal preferences.
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Most of the online firms are now rapidly transforming themselves from low-cost trade-executors into electronic financial-service companies offering a full range of retail products, from share-trading to insurance.
Another is PublishOne, which provides a similar service for electronic publishers of such things as business reports.
Even the smallest independent bookstore will have access to a sophisticated electronic-book sales service with a vast selection of titles.
The consultants had, after all, worked with the postal service on electronic tracking and with electric utilities on using smart meters.
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Once the Service received the electronic return, the refund was wired to the financial institution.
Meanwhile, online rights group the Electronic Frontier Foundation described the service as "creepy".
Technologies that continuously monitor alertness and compliance with regulations are sorely needed -- like in-vehicle drowsiness detectors and electronic hours-of-service recorders.
The return is a nullity because the electronic file submitted to the Service is a document unknown and unverified by the taxpayer.
However, DirecPC tries to deliver the next best thing to a persistent connection by offering a service called an Electronic Program Guide.
One programming tactic is called messaging, which involves electronic documents from a Web service to a queue that then processes each message in periodic batches.
But the fact that the prosecution won its computer sabotage case last month sends out a good message, according to Ed Lugo, a special agent in the U.S. Secret Service's Electronic Crimes Branch.
The service typically uses electronic devices and key cards to make it possible for renters to unlock cars, which ideally should be within walking distance (actual car keys should already be inside the vehicles).
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The SEC and FINRA regulations already require financial service companies to review electronic messages of employees.
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The service also will provide electronic sell-through and video on demand versions of new releases from Lionsgate, NBCUniversal, Paramount Pictures, Relativity and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.
This means processing electronic waste properly is often more a service industry rather than profit-from-product industry.
At the height of the short-lived B2B boom there were at least 2, 500 would-be electronic emporiums to sell every good and service you could think of.
Microsoft is phasing out the email service Hotmail, a pioneer of electronic mail accessed on the Web, in favor of a new-but-old brand: Outlook.
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