Google offered to help Yahoo fend off Microsoft's offer with an advertising alliance with Yahoo.
Egypt's new leader made the first foreign visit of his presidency to Saudi Arabia in what is seen as an effort to renew an alliance and offer assurances about his aims as the most visible symbol of the rise of political Islam in the region.
Habibie, are loathed by most of the voters, an alliance with them would offer Indonesia's Islamist parties their first real taste of power.
Peugeot is working on plans to deal with the chronic overcapacity that is hobbling car manufacturers in Europe, but the alliance with GM doesn't offer short-term solutions to the problem.
The Detroit-based Automotive Women's Alliance Foundation and the Women's Automotive Association International both offer scholarships to help women pursue careers in the industry.
Another factor propelling Sprint into the arms of a suitor is the seemingly inevitable dissolution of Global One, the firm's ill-fated alliance with France Telecom and Deutsche Telekom that was supposed to offer a one-stop communications shop for big corporate customers.
The United Launch Alliance in which traditional providers Lockheed Martin and Boeing are partnered to offer both Atlas and Delta launch vehicles has had 50 successful launches in a row.
But that, which might offer Mrs Fernandez a point of attack, reveals rather her main weakness: the alliance has no coherent economic plan.
Along with Cuba, Ecuador, Bolivia, Nicaragua and some Caribbean countries, Chavez formed the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America, or ALBA, a group intended to offer an alternative to U.S. influence in the region.
The Alliance Support for High Availability segment engages Microsoft Certified Support Center high-availability providers to offer service-level commitments based on system availability.
Starting this month, Ovi Mail moved from its own platform and began migrating to Yahoo, the fruits of a " worldwide strategic alliance" between the two companies announced in May of last year in which Yahoo agreed to offer its Mail and Chat services to nine million registered Ovi users in exchange for access to Nokia's navigation and map services.
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To avert that, Mr Dombrovskis could offer Harmony Centre a deal, perhaps in place of the smallest coalition party, a new ultra-nationalist alliance which has eight seats and an unpleasant fringe.
But a survey by the AMD Alliance, an umbrella group of eye charities, found that even patients who live near hospitals that offer PDT are going blind because they are waiting too long for treatment.
As with the original phone alliance, other companies that contributed to Google Television are required, after a certain period, to offer their intellectual property efforts up for open source licensing, meaning others can mix and match their own devices down the road.
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