Go to Complain.com, a new Web service for consumers who can't get satisfaction for a product or service they bought.
Electric and natural gas utilities that provide partial (or full) service to consumers are heavily regulated by government agencies, which set the price utilities charge customers for electric and gas service, the terms of that service, capital budgets and construction plans and so forth.
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Advertising is the obvious choice for a service that consumers have never been asked to pay for.
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The risk is particularly acute in geographic areas where there's only one company offering broadband service to consumers.
Using this service, consumers will be able to watch and interact with their favorite shows in an entirely new way.
The U.S. market is crying out for a viable third party providing service to consumers in competition with ATT and Verizon.
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It also operates Ubuntu One, a cross-platform personal cloud service for consumers.
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Launched in recent months, the service allows consumers to watch online or mobile versions of the movies they buy on DVD or Blu-ray.
"By putting these two networks together, we would provide better service, more efficient service to consumers, " he said at the Senate hearing in March.
In 2008, Taobao launched a merchant service for consumers called Tmall.
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Vodafone is planning to start promoting the service to consumers in March and already has signed up over 50 websites that are happy to use it.
The Court Service's new online service offers consumers, small businesses and solicitors the choice of making these claims online at a time and place convenient to them.
The San Francisco-based business offered its service to consumers for 15 cents (10p) a scan, and charged other companies a fee to integrate the function into their apps.
If you produce an excellent product that fills a need or provide a service that consumers depend upon, your business is more likely to outlast a potential double-dip recession.
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When firms compete for the right to obtain access to more spectrum, we know that only the one most confident in its ability to provide a valuable service to consumers will augment its bid.
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Many fixed line operators are integrating wireless with their traditional phone services, selling the service to consumers with the convenience of having one device and one bill for both mobile and fixed line calls.
Joining the service gives consumers access to daily deals like Groupon does, but instead of 40 percent off a one-time deal like parasailing lessons, Aisle50 users get the kinds of deals they would use every day in a strategy aimed at encouraging repeated shopping trips from a new group of customers.
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What gives me confidence that Moveline will be around for years to come is that it is both a free service to consumers, so it can build its customer base quickly, but also has had revenues from day one by getting a percentage of the cost of the move from the moving companies.
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Rebecca Arbogast, a Washington-based industry analyst with Stifel Nicolaus, said that while the stay is clearly a victory for Vonage, the expedited time frame causes problems for two reasons: It gives the company less time to develop a workaround technology should the appeal fail, while making it harder to market the service because consumers will know the issue could surface again this summer.
For example, former O.tel.o chief executive Ulf Bohle decided to market O.tel.o's wireline telephone service exclusively to consumers willing to commit to O.tel.o as their exclusive service provider.
Guttentag lays it all out for consumers on his Web site, The Mortgage Professor, where he has just launched a reverse mortgage shopping service that walks consumers through the different options for extracting money from their home with a reverse mortgage.
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In addition to recruiting great employees, the company sincerely believes that community service matters to consumers.
Foodler is an online food ordering service that connects consumers with the widest variety of restaurants for immediate delivery.
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In the U.S. three utterly incompatible network schemes hurt service and befuddle consumers.
For service providers and consumers, the Certification Program offers increased assurance that NFC Forum-certified products are interoperable with NFC Forum-certified devices.
TiVo offers its service directly to consumers, and also distributes its technology and services through solutions tailored for cable, satellite and broadcasting companies.
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Mobile payments start-up Square has announced a new service that allows consumers to pay for purchases by just giving their name to a merchant.
Startup HealthTap is going after this problem with a free question-and-answer service in which consumers anonymously ask questions and doctors answer the questions.
Google Wallet is built to work with the fast growing MasterCard PayPass network-a merchant point of sale service that enables consumers to tap to pay.
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The company's Boost Mobile division, which markets prepaid cellular phone service to young consumers using sports- and music-oriented marketing, has seen excellent growth this year.
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