Its largest such partnership is its deal with Verizon Wireless to bundle its VoIP service with high-end Android and BlackBerry handsets.
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Brazil then sees Africa as a means of diversifying its export markets in such sectors as food, seeds and agricultural machinery while internationalising production of its major companies such as oil and biofuels giant Petrobras and mining colossus Vale.
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The Welsh government said thousands of jobs had been created through its schemes such as Jobs Growth Wales and its business start-up programme.
This includes shutting some overseas plants and selling off some of its businesses, such as its healthcare and logistics unit.
Eastern Germany may never overcome some of its disadvantages, such as its relative lack of big cities and the exodus of its elite.
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However, its network equipment is supplied by outside firms such as Ericsson, its customers are often acquired by thirdparty dealers such as Carphone Warehouse and its software applications are sourced from a range of third parties.
Of course, the United States will need to do much more to secure its interests, such as increasing its miniscule public diplomacy budget for the region, and invigorating state-to-state diplomacy to deny foreign states the opportunity to advance harmful agendas.
Several of its recent releases, such as its Droid smart phone, appear to be selling briskly.
The country that tut-tuts at Europe's mega-holidays thinks nothing of giving its children such a lazy summer.
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Yoga Journal, which is owned by Active Interest Media, produced its first such event 18 years ago.
Analysts say Infosys suffered more than some of its rivals such as Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.
Zynga makes most of its revenue selling virtual items for its games such as tractors for Farmville or weapons in Mafia Wars.
Rubbermaid also announced it was cutting its quarterly dividend to 5 cents, from 10.5 cents, its second such move in three months.
And adding more products will only increase potential conflicts of interests between its different units, such as its advisory and buy-out arms.
The protect part means the PC maker plans to defend its traditional strengths, such as its China business and corporate computer Thinkpad brand.
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OptumHealth : Provides a range of specialized health and wellness services to its customers such as mental health and substance abuse treatment and counseling.
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Tata will either reproduce that car or, more likely, install the MDI technology in one of its existing cars, such as its recently unveiled Nano.
However, for the joint venture to succeed, Novell may need to junk some of its own products, such as its GroupWise messaging system, in favour of Netscape's versions.
Amazon can identify which passages of digital books are popular with readers, and shares some of this data publicly on its website through features such as its "most highlighted passages" list.
But Twitter has since worked to beef up its security, in part through adding well-known white-hat hackers to its staff such as cryptography-focused Moxie Marlinspike and former NSA analyst Charlie Miller.
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We believe the company has established a critical mass in the market with its properties and resorts and that has helped it take market share away from its competitors such as Wynn Resorts.
They directed me to Schedule 2, paragraph 16, where it states: "An NHS trust may pay its staff such remuneration and allowances and employ them on such other terms and conditions as it sees fit".
While some of its partners such as Anadarko and Transocean are covered to a certain extent by insurance, BP, like many of the major oil companies, has a negligible amount of its exposure insured, says Syme.
Though most of its competitors such as Intel and Texas Instruments are being hurt by the slowdown, AMD has been the worst hit so far, posting negative cash flows for two consecutive quarters amid declining revenues.
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Since then a number of players the club brought through its academy such as Stewart Downing, Lee Cattermole, David Wheater and James Morrison have left, and Hasselbaink believes the club have paid the price for selling their home-grown stars.
The Nikon D600 has advanced video features that are ideal for those ready to embrace the world of HD-SLR video, as well as those already enjoying its benefits such as manual control, depth of field, low-light ability and lensing options.
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The amendments require that mutual fund financial data reflect amounts the fund would have paid to its service providers, such as its custodian, transfer agent, law firm or printing firm, if a broker had not paid those providers on behalf of the fund.
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Since its founding in 1980, the festival has been expanding its offerings such that in recent years, the highly anticipated centerpiece is an eye-popping, lavishly staged Baroque opera, supported by the Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra, an ensemble of internationally acclaimed Early Music specialists.
The project -- which lists among its primary objectives the elimination of nuclear weapons, the elimination of nuclear weapons testing, and the creation of a new "architecture" for global security -- features among its advisors such "national security experts" as former DemocraticSenator Dick Clark, former Democratic Representative Mel Levine and former liberal RepublicanCharles Mathias.
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