Much of this decision process about whom to short list may have been informed by digitally available information, peer-set company stories, and relevant industry influencers with a point of view on technology solutions.
The company also claimed industry support from large vendors such as Intel and Yahoo that peer-to-peer technology will revolutionize company models for doing business on the web.
Then there's a case involving Grokster, the peer-to-peer file-sharing company.
The San Francisco company's peer-to-peer data transfer technology has been blamed for helping online piracy to flourish, thanks to its use by several copyright-infringing media sites.
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But I think it helps to imagine if Bitcoin were a startup company rather than a peer-to-peer network.
Over time the tremendous amount of innovation across the company (and gentle peer pressure on those departments not innovating) will create healthy competition.
Zipcar recently invested in the first peer-to-peer (P2P) car sharing company targeting college campus communities, Wheelz, acknowledging the potential of P2P sharing in contributing to the expansion of the overall car sharing market.
Like most companies that run pay and performance market comparisons, ISS uses a peer group to assess pay for the company in question.
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But the company cannot point to any independent peer-reviewed studies vouching for its effectiveness.
Now, to compete with its filesharing foes, the company is itself buying into the peer-to-peer business.
Labour peer Lord Hunt of Kings Heath said the company was "not fit to run the franchise".
The company distinguishes itself from its producer peer group through its active involvement in the development of the gold market, particularly in Asia.
The company is doing amazing things in peer to peer gaming, content distribution, wireless charging for electric cars, cell phone remote controls, direct sunlight viewable screens, and extremely high speed wireless radios.
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He wrote in a note on Wednesday, "We view this quarter as one of significant peer underperformance, in complete contrast to the company's outperformance in 1Q08, leaving one to wonder: "Which is the real Morgan Stanley?
Just the other day, I had a client that was coming under attack by ISS on its pay for performance test, with ISS claiming that the company was overpaying relative to the peer group that it had independently selected.
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Additionally, I can invest in co-working spaces where entrepreneurs collaborate, launch an incubator to nurture new ideas, teach classes as an adjunct professor, publish books, form a peer-to-peer educational network, or found a tech company that enables the developmental process with software.
In assessing the direction of the company, one that is without a peer, the prevailing question continues to be, how much is social media worth?
This implies that the company reinvests its earnings more efficiently than its peer group.
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This implies that the company makes business investments more efficiently than its peer group.
In another example, we worked with a company that was measuring its performance against six peer companies.
And some newbies, according to Greising, have no problem casually talking to the president of the company the same way they talk to a peer.
Collins may also be comfortable with the untapped potential in the Chinese population and the relative valuation of a company like Netease to its closest American Internet peer.
According to the Financial Times report, Janus Friis and our man Niklas Zennstrom -- whom you may know from a little company called Skype -- are supposedly developing a peer-to-peer IPTV service with the intention of distributing video online the same way Skype and its P2P approach distributed VoIP calling online.
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The company, Scour.com, was like Napster, a peer-to-peer search engine to find music and other content on the Web.
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One company, however, was smart enough to ignore the industrywide peer pressure and abandon its ras project in the mid-1990s.
These typically vest after a certain time only if a company has both increased value for its shareholders and performed well against a peer group.
Despite its initial success, Zipcar, the membership-based car sharing company now faces new competitors from up and coming low-cost, peer-to-peer (P2P) car sharing services like RelayRides and GetAround.
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On the first day that Radiohead's latest became available, around 240, 000 users downloaded the album from copyright-infringing peer-to-peer BitTorrent sources, according to Big Champagne, a Los-Angeles-based company that tracks illegal downloading on the Internet.
The company has a higher 1-year ROE of 17.5% versus the peer group average of 16.9%.
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