This suggests that one element of the solution will be labelling when Google's in-house services -- such as maps, airline flight details or shopping comparison information -- are artificially given a higher billing than rivals.
Several people familiar with the deal told the Financial Times that the US internet giant will revamp its results page to include prominent links to rival search engines and clearer signposts for its own in-house services.
Hillcrest also offers fully designed reference remote controls for those companies that have limited in-house design services, leveraging Hillcrest's expertise in industrial design, MEMS electronics, and mass scale manufacturing.
Of course, IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people ) and HP are much bigger and have in-house professional services and consulting divisions that help customers figure out their problems and integrate a wide variety of technologies.
The fund, called BMW i Ventures, will develop some of these services in-house, but will also invest in start-up providers of innovative services.
Idealab's young firms share basic office overheads--everything from photocopiers and accounting services to an in-house designer.
In future, councillors will judge whether services should be provided in-house, by private contracts, with the voluntary sector or in partnership with other local authorities.
Members have also voted against leaving all services in-house.
We recently carried out a survey of in-house lawyers (the buyers of services from law firms) and found that more than two-thirds were willing to pay more for higher-value legal services if they could pay less for lower-value legal legwork.
Norman Schwartz, joined Air Force officials in voicing strong support for the purchase of at least 20 more C-17s in 2 March testimony before the House Armed Services Committee.
It is common practice for public services to mount in-house bids when offering contracts for public competition.
He said that 50% of environmental services are still in-house, which he thinks that through better organising and planning, it can be done less expensively.
These actions on Brilliant Pebbles are the more remarkable for their inconsistency with the 1991 Missile Defense Act, a legislative initiative authored in part by then-Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee Aspin.
The approach and required activities will be different depending on whether services will be brought back in-house or migrated to an alternative provider.
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In addition to building a data platform to enable a holistic view of the customer, Neolane also offers consulting services, either through an in-house capability or through partners like Axciom or Epsilon to help append customer data to provide further insight into how to create ever-more compelling personalized offers that lead to higher conversion rates, and more importantly, happy customers.
In-house rivals suddenly turn collegial and pool their expertise and services for a knockout bid.
But their services also rely on code developed in-house, which is not given away free.
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Joel Brubaker, the 41-year-old chief of staff to Rep. Shelley Moore Capito (R, W.Va), a member of the House Financial Services Committee, made money trading in financial-services firms in 2009.
As more enterprises shut down their in-house data centers and turn to on-demand storage and computing services delivered via the Internet, their storage needs become more variable and less predictable.
At the moment, no one has taken a more prominent, informed and vociferous role in opposing such self-inflicted wounds than the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, Representative Howard "Buck" McKeon .
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Online brokerages are digital real estate firms that source listings from local multiple listing services, aggregate them for users and then offer in-house agents to broker deals.
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Weibo service, one of China's most popular microblogging services, with one post on Sina's in-house top-news feed racking up more than 60, 000 reposts and 15, 000 comments in less than three hours.
"This is really a kind of thrown-together operation, " Kelly told the House Armed Services Committee in March.
According to the plan, when the homeless have found a permanent place to live, the state will offer them whatever social services they need to succeed in that house, from substance-abuse counseling to simple help in learning how to shop or how to balance a checkbook.
Somebody who's been working tirelessly on your behalf, doing a great job -- the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius is in the house. (Applause.) One of the finest governors in the country, Ed Rendell is in the house. (Applause.) Everybody notice how good Ed is looking, by the way?
In addition to the House Financial Services and Senate Banking Committees, where the semi-annual remarks are delivered, Fed chairmen often face the Joint Economic Committee and the budget panels of both chambers.
"Merrill Lynch secretly moved up the planned date to allocate bonuses and then richly rewarded their failed executives, " Cuomo wrote in a letter to House Financial Services Committee Chairman Rep. Barney Frank, D-Massachusetts.
The Obama administration's top-priority plan to shutter the detention facilities at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, suffered another major setback in Congress last month as the House Armed Services Committee approved by a unanimous 59-0 vote legislation that would prevent creation of a replacement prison in the United States.
Sixty-two legislators sit on the House Armed Services Committee, the largest committee in Congress.
If your business is building products, why divert from your core competency to develop in-house software tools when you can hire a company like Salesforce.com to deliver the services you need from the cloud?
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