Last year Alliance UniChem, which had a generics and wholesale business and 1, 300 pharmacy stores, merged with Boots.
Last year Alliance revamped the site and put in a new database that cut the time needed to add and delete listings from an hour to just minutes.
Sony, Samsung, Nokia and others formed the In-Location Alliance last fall to advance indoor mapping.
During the last quarter, Alliance increased its exposure to information technology, while selling down telecoms, industrials and material holdings.
Last month the alliance served court documents on England's exams regulator, Ofqual, and two exam boards, AQA and Edexcel.
Mr Sharif chose to form an alliance last year with the Mohajir Qaumi Movement, the main political party in the city.
In the last quarter, Alliance grew its net asset value (NAV) by 3.3% and delivered a total return of 5.7% for shareholders.
The other party Mr Obuchi needs to woo if he is to keep his grip on power is the New Komeito, which he lured into his ruling alliance last October.
Last September, the Alliance Party voted in support of legislation to allow gay civil marriage in Northern Ireland.
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Several strategies, including an alliance unveiled last week with telecom services provider Avaya, focus on business customers.
And last month the Global Alliance for TB Drug Development, another fledgling nonprofit, licensed a promising TB drug from biotech firm Chiron.
Last year, an alliance of technology companies including Samsung Electronics Co.
And last month the Global Alliance for TB Drug Development, another fledgling nonprofit, licensed a promising TB drug from Chiron, a biotech company.
Last week, the Alliance Party quit the Stormont community relations working group arguing that its recommendations on issues such as flags were not strong enough.
Nuristan was handed over by Nato last year and the alliance will be hoping it is not a template for other security transfers to Afghan forces as foreign troops prepare to leave by the end of 2014.
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However the Wales Tourism Alliance reported a last-minute boost in bookings as the sun came out last week.
The Alliance was launched last year at the Clinton Global Initiative forum.
The Countryside Alliance voiced that last week with its revelations that work had yet to start on the government's fast broadband pilots.
To shore up its international position, Varig last year joined the Star alliance, a loose association whose members include United Airlines and Germany's Lufthansa.
Mr Chalabi, who has close relations with the Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani as well as Muqtada al-Sadr, a militant cleric, helped broker the Shia alliance that dominated last January's election and helped draft the new constitution.
The alliance that Facebook announced last month with Unity Technologies could help make this a reality.
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Sun pulled in 33 big companies, including UAL, General Motors, Vodaphone and Sony, and last September they formed the Liberty Alliance .
Despite the almost permanent state of war between the Wazirs and the Mehsud, these commanders forged an alliance with Baitullah Mehsud last February.
Last year, Qantas announced an alliance with Emirates in an attempt to strengthen its hold on the Australian market and boost its international operations from the country.
The suspension last week came hours after an alliance of about 20 Muslim groups objected to the film despite Haasan putting on a special screening for them, reports said.
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So interest may focus on the relative ranking of the Ulster Unionists and the SDLP and whether Alliance can build on last year's success, when they toppled Mr Robinson in East Belfast.
In the last election, in 2000, the Alliance won 25.5% of the vote, double that of the Progressive Conservatives.
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