With functionality and reliability assured, they prize flexibility and customization, which proprietary products cannot supply.
These drug firms post healthy profits by tweaking existing formulations and developing proprietary products.
The larger firms require all brokers to hawk the same largely proprietary products and pre-packaged in-house information flow.
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Peddling supposedly exclusive unproven proprietary products which promise only to transfer your wealth to the bank is standard operating procedure.
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Generic drug companies are also developing their own proprietary products to grab a little piece of the lucrative branded market.
As a result of the market downturn and weak-performing proprietary products, brokers have seen the fee-based compensation they receive related to client assets drop dramatically.
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The key question is whether the savings in licensing fees for proprietary products outweigh the additional costs in manpower to integrate and operate the free alternative.
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Even Red Hat relies on copyright law to help it enforce the GPL license, which prohibits third parties from incorporating open source code into proprietary products.
They never were big on patents or proprietary products.
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Now, the same brokers that peddled big commission products (or conflicted proprietary products) will be able to call themselves a fiduciary while they earn the same big fat conflicted compensation they have in the past.
Their fee-laden proprietary investment products never have been competitive, generally underperforming by a few percentage points in bull markets.
Cox's demonstration follows a series of announcements about its proprietary video products and services, including personalized recommendations through its Trio Program Guide.
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For example, Miami-based Ivax (amex: IVX - news - people) derived nearly half of its 2000 revenue from proprietary brand products.
Widely known for its oncology franchise, Celgene is expanding its medical applications to include inflammation, immune disorders and proprietary stem cell products derived from human placental cells.
Each company was left to fend for itself, coming up with its own proprietary accessories for individual products.
"The heart of the company's products is a proprietary visco-elastic foam, " says Lutts.
Similar expirations have spawned a large generic industry around so-called small-molecule drugs and the same can occur for genetically engineered products that are proprietary and highly profitable today, Konski said.
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At the risk of seeming Google-centric, I have to point out that it's even possible to manage basic documents and spreadsheets online -- once proprietary to bloated Microsoft Office products -- for free with Google Docs.
Some of Luminary's rivals sell microcontrollers with ARM design tools, but all of them also sell products with their own proprietary architecture.
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In the beginning of most industries, the leading providers tend to be vertically integrated and offer products and services with proprietary, interdependent architectures.
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To penetrate the market in any meaningful way, a company must manufacture its products and develop a proprietary sales and service staff in China.
Her amendment also said that the SEC would be free to expand the exemption to other brokers who sell only proprietary or other limited range of products.
To limit future risk assumed by financial intermediaries, new regulatory reforms are imposing greater checks on proprietary investments, particularly in structured products, hedge funds and private equity funds.
Bank of America says the service combines the legacy Bank of America Online Investing's offering with Merrill Lynch's in-house, or "proprietary, " research, investment products, retirement-planning tools and advice through the call center.
Although the companies produce these chemicals in huge quantities, they are not commodity products because it takes Huntsman proprietary technology to make them both cheaply and at a consistent quality.
Schwab Funds announced today that it has lowered fees for all of its 15 proprietary ETFs, continuing the price war in exchange traded products that has seen companies like Vanguard and BlackRock slash fees in 2012.
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Both Microsoft and Google have enterprise versions of their products, used by companies that want to overlay proprietary data on maps.
It also implemented a design approach to enterprise infrastructure solutions, which consisted of creating open standards-based discrete software products that are easy to implement without dependence on proprietary software.
We are using our proprietary technology leadership in plastic electronics to create a range of innovative products.
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However, financial industry lobbyists were successful in having Glass-Steagall repealed in 1999, which resulted in banks becoming heavily involved in brokerage, mutual fund, and proprietary trading activities, as well as the packaging and promotion of questionable investment products like sub-prime mortgages.
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