Employees there are said to want to cut loose from the beleaguered mother ship.
The team is then airlifted back to the mother ship and the relationship effectively ceases.
That means users will be able to set up storefronts, create gifts--and share revenues with the mother ship.
You have to wonder if Samsung might spin-off their Apple-like beast from within the mother ship to unlock value.
The Virgin Galactic experience is a two-parter: the mother ship, Eve, will carry SpaceShip Two to 50, 000 feet before releasing it.
Your iPhone is only smart and fast enough to connect in real time to the Mother Ship of Smarts in the Cloud.
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And his core stock pickers at the Gabelli mother ship Gamco Investors are similarly equipped with the ability to spot smart investment opportunities.
It was about a year ago, when I saw SpaceShipOne and the mother ship, Eve, named after my mother, coming out in the Mohave.
As a further precaution, United Space Alliance technicians started pawing through the entire inventory of watertight reusable wires used to connect boosters and mother ship.
Experts suggest the pirates have become more organised deploying at least one "mother ship" from which attacks can be launched across the Gulf of Guinea.
Meanwhile in Egypt, the agenda of the Islamists' mother ship - the Muslim Brotherhood - is being adopted even before elections formally bring it to power.
As time goes by, the China Rich List increasingly comes to resemble our U.S. mother ship's original, The Forbes 400, which we'll republish in our October issue.
Beyond drawing the ire of unsatisfied customers, franchisees also risk falling out of favor with the mother ship, says Christopher A. McElgunn, a franchise attorney in Wichita, Kan.
It envisions a behemoth mother ship with twin, narrow fuselages, featuring six Boeing Co. 747 engines attached to a record 385-foot wingspan, plus a smaller rocket pod nestled underneath.
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But the main means of communication with Beagle 2 was always intended to be its mother ship, the European Space Agency's Mars Express, from which it was released on December 19th.
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It's hard to overstate Burt Williams's influence: Since its creation, Williams Selyem has been the mother ship of Sonoma Pinot Noir and, more recently, of Mendocino Pinot training and spinning off several generations of winemakers.
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After studying a few exceptions to the pattern of disruption, Christensen concluded that the only way a big company could avoid being disrupted was to set up a small spinoff company that would function as a start-up, make the new low-end product, and be independent enough to ignore what counted as sensible for the mother ship.
By providing a standardized product backed by big national or even global brand advertising, the mother-ship corporation provides franchisees with a way to start a business with a brand that customers already know and trust.
In the suit, Christian's mother accuses Hansen of negligence in allowing the ship to sail.
She spent her 21st birthday on board the rescue ship Carpathia, from where she wrote a letter to her mother, who had remained in Cornwall, saying she had been "thrown" into a lifeboat wearing just her nightdress and boots.
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