If Fiat had no engineering partner to share the cost of vehicle development, fixing Alfa would be impossible, he said.
That euphoria of having a working partner to share the responsibilities, coupled with cash to grow the business, evaporated in less than six months.
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Until now he has been hard pressed to garner a real deep pocketed partner to share the burden of the program at a price he found acceptable for the risks he took to get to this point.
The group recently sold off a 30% stake in one of its Greenland exploration licences to Norwegian group Statoil as part of a plan to bring in a partner to share the costs of exploration in the Arctic.
And news that Sprint may find funding for its partner Clearwire sent its share up about 2% too.
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"As our first U.S. 4GLTE smartphone, we're proud to launch the Anthem 4G with our long-time partner MetroPCS because we share their goal of providing consumers with outstanding value and a strong 4GLTE experience, " said Lixin Cheng, CEO, ZTE USA, and president, North America Region, ZTE.
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It has just 4% market share, and its closest hardware partner, Nokia, has 8.2% market share.
But a recent exit of a short-term venture capital partner, and a significant share buy back by Kaspersky ownership means that the initial idea of listing shares has been shelved.
CNN.com is one of several dozen sites that partner with Facebook to display and share users' interests.
This collaborative approach also stretches to financing the project, which West is apparently hoping to share with a regional partner.
The FBI's Los Angeles office is investigating allegations that a former KPMG senior partner passed inside information to a share trader.
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Draack thinks Nokia has a good opportunity to build market share with its new partner and of course save costs in research and development when the two eventually bring a phone to market (most likely at some point next year).
Google is experimenting with other types of advertising, such as its AdSense program, which allows partner sites to host keyword ads and share revenue with Google.
The founder-entrepreneur purchases his stock for a penny a share and the VC general partner is allocated a percentage of the stock (if the VC firm is profitable) without paying extra for it.
In this setup, if you want your share to pass to your partner you must say so explicitly in a will, or it could go to your parents, forcing your significant other to move.
Eventually I applied for the YouTube partner program, so I can get a share of the advertising.
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Motorola is losing market share to Eastcom, a distribution partner that now makes and sells its own competing mobile phones for less than the American firm.
On the side, he starts another company with a partner that makes it easy for people to share pictures, videos, and all sorts of other electronic files.
Morgans has a management contract to run the properties and is a real estate equity partner in all of them, shouldering its share of all operating expenses including its own management fee.
McDowell, who was second overnight, regained a share of top spot when playing partner Johnson dropped three shots on the second hole and, as the American fell further behind, the European Ryder Cup star was never again headed.
In one study published recently in Biology Letters, chimps and bonobos presented with a food-based ultimatum game would accept any food reward on offer - no matter how meagre their share was in comparison to their partner's.
Not only did the partnership give Nokia a better smartphone OS and hence more of a chance to stake a claim on the lucrative smartphone market, it also gave it a deep-pocketed partner that was as desperate for a bigger share of the market.
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Wireless distributor Brightstar reportedly ordered 1 million BlackBerry 10 devices, as part of a bid to share some distribution risk with its carrier partner Verizon.
In March he announced that T-Systems would be looking for a strategic partner to help it expand internationally, as its share of the German market appeared to be under pressure.
Oil and gas services is a highly consolidated market where Schlumberger has more than 60% market share, making entering this market without a partner nearly impossible.
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But Schering-Plough will have to share those revenues with Merck, its marketing partner, which also has the option to buy the entire joint venture should Schering-Plough ever merge.
Typically, the foreign partner puts up 100% of the capital for a 50% share of the profits.
What is particularly striking is that in eight years German trade with China alone is projected to be 15.6% of the total, according to the trends, or not far off double the share represented by Germany's most important eurozone trading partner, France.
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