"It turned out to be a dumb idea, " says Carroll, and the firm reclaimed its old name and returned to selling control systems.
This week, Hollinger International's board launched a campaign, including the creation of a poison pill, to stop Lord Black selling control of the firm to the wealthy Barclay brothers.
Besides selling control of AvtoVAZ to Renault-Nissan, RT has already sold a controlling stake in two tyre factories to Pirelli of Italy, which will try to turn them into exporters of winter tyres to Canada and the Nordic countries.
Sprint now owns just over fifty percent of Clearwire after Craig McCaw sold all other shareholders down the river a few months ago by selling his control stock.
The bank keeps its risks under control by selling off mortgage and credit-card receivables to bigger institutions.
For De Beers, it confirms that the company's Central Selling Organisation will still control the world diamond trade.
High-risk, high-return funds like most of those that New Jersey is selling interests in, control tens of billions of dollars of property world-wide.
At the same time, Sony is balancing cash inflows and outflows while working to improve its cash flow by carefully selecting investments, selling assets and strengthening control of working capital such as inventory.
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The fiscal 2013 Q3 numbers from Logitech are in, and according to new CEO Bracken P Darrell, the "disappointing" results will require immediate action to turn around -- action that includes selling off its remote control (read: Harmony) and digital video security divisions.
Part of the problem: Probac was selling directly to distributors and lost control over its service.
To this day, different militia often control the mines, selling the minerals into the global supply chain.
The justices unanimously found the world's largest seed producer has intellectual property control over its best-selling "Roundup Ready" soybeans.
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Royal Bank of Scotland is to give up control of Direct Line after selling part of its stake in the insurer.
Soldiers are taking on the civilian middlemen who control the vegetable trade by selling cheap produce, some of it from military farms.
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Hackers also profit by secretly taking control of your computer and selling access to your computer to companies that use it to operate their businesses at a discount to legitimate so-called cloud-services providers.
Selling Worldwide could mean the BBC losing control of its prime assets - its brands and its programmes - to a third party which would not be in the interests of licence payers.
In September Mill Financial added the Royal Bank of Scotland to its complaint, claiming the bank breached a contract and secretly seized control of Liverpool FC, selling it for a lowball price that left Mill Financial with nothing.
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Apple has been relying on selling third-party products related to home control in Apple Stores.
The scheme eventually mushroomed out of control, so Farkas allegedly started selling fake loans to Colonial to get funding to cover up the deficit.
They would rather profit on a small scale, selling tapa cloth and betel nuts, without losing control of their land.
The researchers advocate the setting up of a central selling organisation that could DNA fingerprint the shavings and control the market.
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Recommendations included giving the council more power to control the number of off-licences selling alcohol, and the provision of English language courses.
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And that forced selling could drive down the price of the commodites they control even further.
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To control how the Swatch was marketed, he began selling through his own branded Swatch stores.
Compatible with GoPro's best selling HD HERO2 camera, the GoPro App enables full camera control and live scene preview for easy shot framing on smartphones or tablets.
Last year a Tax Court judge ruled for the doc, concluding he had reason to believe he might make a profit, had made money buying and selling other boats and was done in by factors beyond his control.
The market right now is devoid of leadership, with the tech sector going AWOL. In particular, stocks like Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) have succumbed to heavy selling pressure, making it harder for bulls to wrest back control of the proceedings.
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Developers are getting better control over payments, including working across multiple currencies and selling virtual goods and upgrades while inside the apps.
You wander around the agora and find that others are selling bowls quite similar to yours, meaning that you are in control of neither the supply nor the price.
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