It is also time to allow states, small businesses and other organizations to increase their purchasing power by banding together to offer health insurance at lower cost.
Google said that it would be upgrading an already-existing fiber network in Provo that does not offer gigabit speeds, by purchasing iProvo, a fiber-optic network owned by the city.
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Cisco is eager to sell its own bigger routers to service providers like Comcast (nasdaq: CMCSK - news - people ), which currently buys relatively few products from Linksys (the service providers offer the home gear to families purchasing high-speed data).
With Checkout, they wanted to help advertisers close the purchasing process to deliver a search-to-offer-to-purchase experience.
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Also, classical record collectors want the booklet texts and the attractive packaging many classical albums have to offer, including lyrics, and often prefer purchasing the physical CD to downloading files.
Special Offer: Central Banks in China and India are purchasing massive amounts of gold.
Amazon announced an In-App Purchasing service, making it easy for Amazon Appstore developers to offer digital content and subscriptions for purchase within apps and games that are available on millions of Kindle Fires and other Android devices.
Beginning with 250 stores in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, this summer 7-Eleven will offer bill payment, payroll check cashing, money wiring and ticket purchasing for entertainment events and travel--all on the souped-up terminals.
Unlike undergraduate students, for which many universities offer comprehensive and inexpensive policies while attending their school full-time, most graduate programs do not offer broad scope health insurance plans, assuming that graduate students will be purchasing this on their own.
This year, entrepreneurs have been new sites nearly every week that offer consumers deals at spas, ice cream parlors and corner delis each week by combining the purchasing power of a group of consumers buying a specific deal.
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