More than 300, 000 people around the world have signed up for online courses run by Edinburgh University.
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It has grown into a company of 800 employees and is giving companies like America Online a run for its money on the Web.
To ingratiate themselves to college customers, online booksellers run ads in school newspapers and hire students to act as roving ambassadors tactics that are long on cool and less expensive than traditional marketing methods.
When I ran into issues I was able to reach world class experts, at no cost, through an online portal run by a nonprofit advocacy organization, to get expert advice on a medical opinion I got in Phoenix which seemed off track.
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Both run online modeling companies and a unique partnership formed from their shared business interests.
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These e-readers also can't run advertisements in the same way that they can run online, Jayson adds.
On Thursday, it was the turn of Netease, an online gaming company run by William Lei Ding.
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The new online petition website, run by DirectGov, has replaced the former Downing Street online page.
If you want to build some experience first, then you hit up the online tournaments that run daily.
It will enable Ubuntu users to run online applications like Facebook, Twitter, Last.
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You can now manage your e-mail, write documents and edit spreadsheets using online services that run inside a web browser.
Hawkins' firm is converting games built for mobile phones into Flash versions that run online, and adding MochiAds to sweeten the results.
Efforts by Google to build an online archive have run into legal problems over the Internet search engine's proposed use of copyrighted materials.
But Pikmin is already a multiplayer title, and it may have been worth the effort of tweaking it to get it to run online.
Meanwhile, the league itself has benefited from Mr. Lin's emergence: his jersey has been the NBA's top-selling jersey online since his run began Feb. 4.
TORwallet has just announced an online bitcoin wallet run as a TOR hidden service (to access the service users must run the onion proxy software on their computer).
But while the technology to run online education programs is getting less expensive and easier to employ, some education experts argue that many services don't focus enough on how to teach students effectively over the Internet.
Not only does this strategic move bring new unserved customers into the WordPress fold, it paves the way for the online publishing platform run by parent company Automattic not to be restricted by the choices of its payment partners.
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You can download free marketing materials including online banners and logos, signage, and social media and email templates from the Shop Small website and even create a free personalized ad to run online - but hurry because you can only sign up until November 19th.
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Online advertising seems to run contrary to the magic of advertising, he says.
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LinkedIn's profits also will be lowered by the expenses for expanding the company's payroll and building data centers to run its online services.
Historically, January is the month when tour operators, both online and offline, run the greatest number of deeply discounted holiday packages, where flights are sold along with hotels.
Yet for a general retailer, the transition to the internet is by no means easy, says Bill Bass, who joined Sears from Lands' End to help run its online businesses.
Microsoft is more interested in selling premium online ads, which run on highly trafficked areas such as the MSN home page or are shown on its Xbox 360 video game console.
Equally interesting is QuickBooks Online which allows business users the flexibility to run their company finances from wherever they have online access.
After considering the options, they selected the Windows Azure Platform to run their new online 311 service.
We run overnight for online services and we have to be prepared with all our data at 8 a.m.
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