Even if app producers or operators offer an option to block the collection of user contextual information, consumers will simply not exercise that option if it will adversely impact their mobile experience.
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Others may exercise their option to "go nuclear, " contributing to regional arms build-ups and proliferation.
But BSkyB indicated it would exercise its option to sell the stake back to Kirch later this year.
Being told that I could not exercise this option chafed me and represented a disservice to the community.
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He also may exercise an option to purchase the building his company rents.
In May 2012, however, Morgan Stanley can exercise its option to buy an additional 14% stake in Smith Barney.
If the underwriters exercise this option in full, Pfizer is expected to retain an approximately 80 percent ownership of Zoetis.
It will certainly lack the ability to exercise the option to increase its arsenal should that prove necessary in the future.
This time, the issue is whether to exercise the option it created in 1994 by building a second increment of 20 B-2 aircraft.
But I also fear that the lack of political consensus at home can drive us to routinely exercise an option whose long-term effects are hard to discern.
Comcast CFO Michael Angelakis said last September that it would happen sometime before a deadline in 2014, at which point GE could exercise an option forcing Comcast to buy half its stake.
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In August, Aventis (nyse: AVE - news - people ), which had originally developed pagoclone and had licensed it to Indevus, decided not to exercise its option to develop the drug.
The common units being offered represent a 43.0 percent limited partner interest in the Partnership, or a 49.4 percent limited partner interest if the underwriters exercise their option to purchase additional common units in full.
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William Hill said that it would seek a valuation of the 29% stake in its online business that is held by joint venture partner Playtech, and that it may exercise its option to buy Playtech out.
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The common units being offered to the public represent a 53.3% limited partner interest in the Partnership, or a 56.7% limited partner interest if the underwriters exercise their option to purchase additional common units in full.
Upon conclusion of the offering, the public ownership will represent a 43.0 percent limited partner interest in the Partnership, or a 49.4 percent limited partner interest if the underwriters exercise their option to purchase additional common units in full.
Brokerages automatically exercise an ITM option contract unless the contract owner instructs them otherwise.
After his big stock option exercise, Zuckerberg can walk in the footsteps of hi-tech icons such as Bill Gates and Steve Jobs.
If Montoya chooses to leave, Williams can exercise a contractual option to bring back Jenson Button, who is on loan to Renault.
For those who exercise the account option for fewer years and later in their careers, the account would finance proportionally less under a statutory formula.
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When its profitability dipped last summer, according to its SEC filings, Inktomi was forced to exercise a purchase option--in essence to repay Deutsche Bank for the loan on the building.
Mr. Zuckerberg currently holds in aggregate approximately 444 million shares of Class B common stock as well as 60 million shares of Class B common stock issuable upon the exercise of an option.
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And even if the company is successful, the unanticipated tax consequences of an option exercise or vesting of restricted shares, or the inability to immediately sell shares to pay taxes may create challenges for the employee.
If you purchase an option, you have the right to exercise it (with an American style option as most equities are) at any time in the expiration cycle.
It can happen if, say, the stock price and the exercise price are so close that the option holder sees no value in paying the commissions to exercise.
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The lack of a public market for the shares at the time of exercise may prevent a contemporaneous sale to produce cash to cover tax liabilities or to immediately recoup the exercise price paid by the option holder.
The lower the exercise price, the more the option is worth as the stock price rises.
Start by addressing each of the terms of stock-option programs--exercise price, vesting, time to exercise, eligibility and grant size.
With a Chicago put you might get stuck with the stock in question if it dips and the option holder decides to exercise.
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