"For almost 10 years, the cartelists carried out the most harmful anti-competitive practices, including price fixing, market sharing, customer allocation, capacity and output coordination and exchanges of commercial sensitive information", the commission said.
With growing awareness and popularity, the car sharing market has recently witnessed the arrival of several P2P services like RelayRides, Getaround and Sprideshare and Jolly Wheels.
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Zipcar recently invested in the first peer-to-peer (P2P) car sharing company targeting college campus communities, Wheelz, acknowledging the potential of P2P sharing in contributing to the expansion of the overall car sharing market.
The big holdup for both the NFL and NBA is the natural tension between the big market and small market owners on revenue sharing.
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It is a major competitor in the e-commerce industry as well, sharing the market with eBay and discount retailers like Best Buy and Wal-Mart for its electronic products, books and apparel.
But five of the eight most valuable teams--the Yankees, Red Sox, Dodgers, Braves and Cubs--own cable channels or are owned by companies that also own cable networks, letting them reduce revenue sharing and market themselves without having to show the value on their balance sheets.
By sharing information with the market, companies reduce investor uncertainty and prevent stock prices from swinging wildly upon unexpected bad news.
"If some authors find it good to market their products using file-sharing or whatever, they are free to do that, " she added.
Parties should be on the phone weekly sharing demand forecasts and market pricing, discussing cash-flow issues, updating pricing, and providing continuous feedback and updates on current business conditions.
The CFTC recently announced several measures to increase market transparency, including more information sharing between U.S. and European markets and a re-examination of how certain index traders are classified.
They also show the necessity of sharing rewards in a market economy--and the essential flaw in systems like communism, where people are expected to share resources without regard to how much work they do.
Revenue sharing is helping small market teams like the Florida Marlins, Pittsburgh Pirates and Tampa Bay Rays make money according to the financials on Deadspin.com (Miami is a big market, but the Marlins revenues put them in the small market category).
Piracy is one thing, but account sharing is the great grey market of streaming services.
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Can you guess which city is not sharing in the depressed commercial market?
If and when the promised power is taken offline, Enernoc gets paid again, at a market rate per kilowatt-hour, sharing that with clients, too.
Then there's the revenue sharing model that has smaller market clubs--those that figure to be hit hardest by the downturn--getting reimbursed by the big boys.
"Integrated with LG, this team will be the heart and soul of the new LG Silicon Valley Lab, focused on bringing innovative technology solutions to market through the most popular platforms for sharing and consuming content and experiences, " he said.
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Because the new operations are based on a "peer to peer" business model, "issues can arise that are out of your control, " says the 25-year-old Mr. Smith, who launched SpotHero in July 2011 as a driveway-sharing service for the Chicago market, but has since shifted its focus.
Commissioner Bud Selig has pushed through a substantial revenue-sharing system to help small-market clubs in recent years.
Does that mean the bigger market clubs will call for adjustments to revenue sharing under the next collective bargaining agreement?
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Muxlim.com is trying to tap into a parallel market with a site that offers file-sharing, streaming video, search and social networking, all for a Muslim audience.
Reaching 250 college campuses, the deal is a win for both Ford and ZipCar, giving the automaker exposure to a younger market and lowering costs for the auto-sharing company.
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Like other new services such as space-rental service Airbnb or car-sharing service RelayRides, Gobble distributes a market to a wide variety of people and makes a market much more accessible.
Not only is this a model for other entertainment brands but also for any business that wants to fuel growth by hosting the most popular online community in its market, a place where all stakeholders benefit from sharing, collaborating and recruiting new members.
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For example, a somewhat aggressive team salary cap, coupled with a higher minimum salary for players and revenue sharing that redistributes money from large-market teams to small-market teams, may be in the interest of a majority of owners and players, but would be unacceptable to the folks at the table.
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But no market value has been put on them (although loss-sharing agreements in part serve that purpose).
Facilitate the gathering of specific feedback to the key questions during the meeting, and the sharing what your SAB sees out there in the market on the competitive front.
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The Mets, historically a rich franchise, will likely face a further financial slide this year, and the revenue-sharing checks the team cuts to its small-market brethren will shrink the difference between a good left fielder and a poor one for a team like the Pittsburgh Pirates.
But when Texas and Oklahoma decided to stay put, as the conference added West Virginia and regionally-based TCU, and as new conference leadership realized that greater revenue sharing must be attained, this enabled the media market place to feel more secure about the long-term stability of the conference.
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