Google has traditionally leased its overseas offices but in the past two years has purchased premises in Paris, Dublin, and now London.
In mid-1998 when Virginia-headquartered AOL bought Israel-based ICQ, it was the first outside-United States acquisition by AOL. In late 1998 Netscape would come into the AOL fold with several overseas offices.
In the past two years, as groundwork for the creation of a new branch, Mr Wu travelled to China monthly, making presentations to regulators and cultivating the overseas offices of existing clients.
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All three are US-based companies, though they operate on the ground foreign offices overseas.
They have offices overseas, and they have to abide by the local laws.
Not only is stimulating off-shoring bad policy, it is unfair to small U.S. competitors who cannot afford offices overseas to avoid visa constraints.
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The NBA has done this by amongst other things, establishing league offices overseas, developing training facilities outside of the United States and supporting various goodwill initiatives globally.
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They had factory reps flying from overseas to their corporate offices and showing them their goods.
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Nab every sales call, land the biggest accounts, open offices in every major city overseas.
He now helps run a 400-employee firm with offices in the U.S. and overseas.
In 1998, looking to turn itself into a global firm, Razorfish, based in Manhattan, quickly established an overseas presence ( see story )--six foreign offices--by acquiring web development shops in Britain and Sweden.
In Eastern Europe's small towns, Western Union offices have sprung up to disburse funds from relatives working overseas.
Opening the debate, Mr Hague told MPs that, far from shrinking, the FCO's presence overseas would be bolstered by "up to 11 new British embassies and eight new consulates for trade offices" by 2015.
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