Some 590m people visited the company's sites in June, including its popular news and finance services, generating 78 billion page views.
In a separate case, the BBC's economics editor was found not to have been biased when she said London's finance services accounted for "a tiny fraction" of the UK economy.
Microsoft's online car, travel and finance services all leave third parties to handle the final transactions, but Microsoft retains the bond with the consumer thanks to the value it has added.
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They also have inquired whether Google grants preferential placement on its website to its own products, such as Google's "Places" business listings, its "Shopping results" and Google Finance services above most other results.
Web-based, personal finance management services, similar in purpose to Quicken and Quickbooks software, are increasingly adding travel-related features to their offerings.
The problem is Congress never said it wanted to finance public services this way and only a part of what these deals cost the Treasury gets to the not-for-profit.
The company's industry segments are primarily financial services and insurance comprising enterprises providing banking, finance and insurance services, manufacturing, enterprises in the energy, utilities, communication and services and retail, consumer packaged goods, logistics and life sciences.
He was director of Finance and Property Services, HM Household, from 1990-96 and Keeper of the Privy Purse from 1996-2002.
Manufacturing companies need efficient telecoms, insurance, finance and software services to succeed.
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Productivity growth fell in distribution (from 2.4% in 1970-95 to 1.7% in 1995-2004) and in finance and business services (from 1% to 0.3%).
In America the annual growth rates of output per hour leapt from 2.6% to 4.4% in distribution and from 0.2% to 2.6% in finance and business services.
Offshore finance and information services are important foreign exchange earners and thrive from having the same time zone as eastern US financial centers and a relatively highly educated workforce.
As far as public expenditure is concerned, we have said that we are able to finance the frontline services in education and health and policing, and what we've said is for other areas there is so much uncertainty about what's likely to happen to the economy at the moment that we will make these decisions in a spending review at the appropriate time.
The Lib Dem version is an Infrastructure Bank to direct private finance into new rail services and green energy.
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Political cultures everywhere have one common characteristic: finding additional ways to pick taxpayers' pockets to finance ostensibly worthy critical services and programs.
The large business services and finance sector grew by 0.9%, but there were falls in transport, storage and communication - down by 1.5%.
The APT tax can therefore be viewed as a universal brokerage fee levied by the state to finance the panoply of services it provides.
Higher-wage industries, such as technical services and finance, showed weak growth.
The share of Britain's GDP accounted for by insurance and finance, including retail services like arranging mortgages, has already dropped to just under 8% from above 9% in 2007.
One in five work in such fields as management, business services or finance, where the percentage of people working for themselves rose from 28 percent to 40 percent between 2005 and 2010.
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Tradable sectors include manufacturing, commodities and services such as finance and engineering that compete globally.
It plans to branch out into power generation and services, particularly finance and banking.
Germany has deficits in education, immigration and finance, but regulation of services is a big issue.
Then there is GE Capital Services, the finance giant that now delivers 40% of GE's pretax income.
Assistant chief constables will straddle the two forces along with the director of finance and director of enabling services.
But the biggest British successes now seem, precisely, to be in the field of services, from finance to fashion.
In future, Hong Kong's competitiveness will be judged mainly by its ability to sell China services such as finance and management skills.
Many businessmen praise Invest Northern Ireland, the agency charged with regional development, for pulling in high-quality inward investment, especially in finance, technology and business services.
If you have consolidated IT processes and systems and generated significant savings, this translates especially well to the other shared services such as finance and HR.
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