B, a satellite company, saw its share price rocket after announcing ambitious Internet expansion plans.
But the fact that the bill's chief author cannot offer a direct assurance that it won't happen is one of many reasons why the Senate should be skeptical about this Internet sales tax expansion.
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At the same time, TUI said it would combine its airlines into a single brand called TUIfly.com, and unveiled plans for a internet flight portal, an expansion of its hotel business.
Schmidt, who oversaw Google's expansion into a global Internet giant, speaks frequently about the importance of providing people around the world with Internet access and technology.
Exploding usage of the Internet in the early 1990s drove the expansion of the network core, giving rise to the long-haul backbones of newcomers like WorldCom, Qwest, Williams Cos. and Level 3.
This is the story of many a telecom and cable provider expansion history, as well as a few recent Internet companies.
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But when you boil it down to its elements, the Internet of Things is, today, little more than an expansion of traditional telematics, security and asset control applications.
As competition for consumers intensified amid the growth of the book superstore in the 1990s, Borders made a number of crucial gaffes including transferring its Internet operations to Amazon in 2001 and embarking on an overseas expansion that swelled its debt.
This expansion is necessary because the current number of addresses under Internet Protocol version four (IPv4) is gradually being exhausted.
The biggest driver of datacenter expansion are the pervasiveness of smartphones and a new class of devices, nicknamed IoT, or Internet of Things.
The reason: Hastings had decided to forge ahead with costly expansion outside the U.S. and escalate spending to license more compelling material for Netflix's Internet video library, shriveling the company's profits.
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