How, the thinking went, could you survive as a media conglomerate without such an Internet presence?
It has also jumped ahead of Martin in the race to develop a meaningful Internet presence.
Using elastic cloud resources from Amazon Web Services, for example, a tiny software developer can scale its Internet presence as fast as it wants.
To help the company improve its image and internet presence, he creates and writes content for a website called GEAdventure.com, which tells stories of cool (and heart-warming) products the company makes, like incubators for premature babies.
According to survey of more than 15, 000 small- and medium-sized enterprises, those with a medium or heavy Internet presence expect to grow by 17% over the next three years, compared with 12% for those less engaged online.
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Catching up with Amazon.com, which has just launched new online bookshop sites for Germany and Britain, will be costly for Bertelsmann but its increased Internet presence is bound to add to the overall marketing effort put into book sales.
Orlando lawyer Mark O'Mara told CNN's "AC360" that George Zimmerman told him Wednesday of the donations as they were trying to shut down his Internet presence to avoid concerns about possible impersonators and problems with his Twitter and Facebook accounts.
Accordingly, in the space of less than two years, it is adding to its two existing television channels five free-to-air channels, including a 24-hour news channel, five commercial channels produced through a joint venture, and a large and expensive Internet presence.
As I wrote in a December 2012 post, any company with an active Internet presence which means just about any company that has moved beyond inkwells and telegrams is creating constant digital footprints, large and small, concerning every aspect of its business.
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Along with that carrot, the states are hoping for a stick: authority from Congress to force catalog and Internet merchants without physical presence in their states to sign up to collect simplified taxes.
Web.com Group ( WWWW) specializes in providing small businesses with programs designed to increase their presence on the Internet.
They intend to push Britain's bid for the 2006 World Cup and its presence on the Internet, to try to sharpen the country's image.
And Amazon and other Internet retailers are making their presence felt.
In addition, Sephora has a strong presence on the Internet.
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Lippman wrote that the world has changed dramatically over the past two decades, where an entity can have a profound impact elsewhere through the Internet, and the physical presence test may now be outdated.
Netflix tries to minimize its presence on the true Internet backbone.
Though being in hiding, the Internet tycoon has kept an active online presence.
Microsoft, and other leading Western companies including Yahoo and Compaq, were among those already with a presence in China's rapidly developing internet market.
In a campaign reminiscent of the Taliban, these shadowy organizations are now making their presence known through terrorist attacks on video stores, Internet cafes, and other establishments deemed blasphemous.
If approved, we intend to invest in the NGO community to offer online tools to help organizations more effectively build their online presence and capitalize on the immense power of the Internet.
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Lawyers and experts on internet policy say no court case has ever turned on the presence or absence of such an automatic e-mail footer in America, the most litigious of rich countries.
But the greatest increases in productivity have come with internet technology, hosted CRM, social media, immediate response, local presence, and telephony tools integrated together.
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Previously, stores were only required to collect sales tax on goods shipped to states where they have a physical presence, however now state governments would obtain the ability to collect an Internet sales tax from businesses headquartered outside of their respective state borders.
Consumers are drawn to the mobile Internet because it can be highly contextual and leverages information such as geo-location, presence, and user-specific information to deliver a rich and intensely personal experience.
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Where it gets a little fuzzy, as with Amazon, is whether a business has a presence inside a state where the only contact might be a sale over the internet (in most cases, the answer is no).
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Under current law, a state collect sales tax from companies that have a physical presence in the state, which hits brick-and-mortar retailers but not Internet retailers that ship to customers with the state.
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Sales transacted on the Internet would be treated the same as catalog or phone sales: Unless a seller has a physical presence in the state of the buyer, no sales tax can be collected.
Later during the round table, to the minor chagrin of two Internet journalists present, Grant turns his opinion on another issue unrelated to his movie: the growing media presence on the World Wide Web.
Internet retailers claim that their transactions are exempt from sales tax in locations where they do not have a physical presence.
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