The Alliance Support for High Availability segment engages Microsoft Certified Support Center high-availability providers to offer service-level commitments based on system availability.
For those willing to take more risk and dabble in the high yield segment there are an array of choices.
At the high-end segment of the market, the wines are meant to age for years or even decades.
At the opening of the High-Level Segment on 4 July, Ms Bokova called for a new global solidarity compact.
Microsoft currently operates only in the high end smartphone segment while the budget smartphone segment is dominated by Android and Symbian.
China Telecom is looking to tap into the high-end segment as it attempts to drive further adoption of its stand alone wireless service.
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While price may not be as important in the high-end segment, trying to sell against established brands like Audi, Buick, Mercedes and BMW with a significant price disadvantage will be challenging.
In his video message during the high-level segment, the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon called upon the scientific community to help make sense of the complex and interconnected challenges --including climate change, the financial crisis and food, water and energy insecurity -- that threaten human well-being and civilization as we know it.
They focus more on the high-end luxury segment but they do focus on active adults.
The risk here is that as Huawei and ZTE continue their assault on low-end smartphone market, the arrival of iPhone 4S will suck the oxygen out of the high-end smartphone segment, triggering order cancellations from Samsung, Nokia, LG, Sony Ericsson and HTC.
We think that this concern is overblown because of the large size and fragmentation of the commercial reverse supply chain segment, high barriers to entry for successful penetration into the market, and the incompatibility of an online surplus liquidation business with the aforementioned potential competitors.
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That was the period of excesses in one particular segment of the high yield market, namely, telecommunications.
That would seem to create an inherent bias toward owning the worse-performing segment of the high yield universe.
On the other hand, Matt is avoiding a smaller segment of the high yield market consisting of riskier CCC bonds with spreads below their historical levels.
Priceline has a strong foothold in the high-margin hotel bookings segment outside the U.S., facilitated by the acquisition of Bookings.com (for European markets) and Agoda.com (for Asian markets).
The airport express bus segment has unusually high margins.
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"We see a stabilizing trend in the ultra-luxury segment, as high-net-worth buyers pursue the very best properties at opportunistic price points, " says Bill Fandel of Peaks Real Estate Sotheby's International Realty, who handled the sale of the Bootjack Ranch, via an e-mail.
The margins in the energy drinks segment are so high that although TNT only holds the third position with a bit more than 4% of overall market share, Petropolis Group has announced it will sponsor Scuderia Ferrari Formule One team for the next three years.
Nissan has high hopes for growth in the compact segment that Honda dominates in the U.S. with its Civic model.
Apple sells high end products mostly to the affluent segment of society.
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We expect the nutritional segment to continue to post high single-digit growth on back of Similac and other pediatric nutritional products like PediaSure, Ensure and Glucerna.
Qualcomm smashed analyst estimates, benefitting from the floodtide of demand in the high-mobility (smartphone and tablet) segment.
The Asset Management Group segment includes personal wealth management for high net worth and ultra high net worth clients and institutional asset management.
But high programming costs are squeezing margins, and that segment of the business is less and less profitable.
In return, cable companies will be able to lock consumers into multi-year contracts and get first dibs on high-volume streamers, the most profitable market segment.
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When complete, the acquisition will be integrated into Corning's Life Sciences business segment, providing a much broader portfolio of high-quality laboratory research products and expanded global market reach.
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The revenues from this segment grew by 9%, which was unusually high given the trend in the past three quarters.
Verizon Wireless generated record-high margins and strong operational results, and Verizon's Wireline segment generated continued increases in revenues from FiOS fiber-optic services and strategic business services.
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In most cases, only a small segment of the China market will be able to afford such a high price.
His view is that Apple and Samsung will continue to dominate the high end of the handset market, but he cautions that growth in that segment is likely to slow to the 10%-15% range, down from the 50%-100% range.
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