Akamai makes money delivering Web content for its customers and by providing value added service like dynamic site acceleration and advertising decision solutions.
The service is a value-added convenience for customers, and most banks already have the security and risk management mechanisms in place to make the payments secure.
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It is another move to be the kind of value-added service provider, like IBM, the company hopes to be.
Titan generally manufactures both wheels and tires for these markets and provides the value-added service of assembling the completed wheel-tire system.
The cloud provider may simply want to offer a value-added service such as an insurance company providing data on auto safety testing.
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Together, JiWire and AWG enable venues to deliver Wi-Fi as a free value-added service to their customers supported by the platform's ability to generate significant advertising revenue.
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Some of the battles are easy to predict: domestic businesses v. multinationals, manufacturers v. service firms, business whose value-added is in their intellectual property v. those who deal in commodity products.
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While DAF was able to own service, many competitors viewed it as added value.
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One Canadian library the Surrey City Centre library in British Columbia came up with a value-added idea to invigorate service: tap people for knowledge as well as books.
Cloud technology allows service providers to offer the INTIX Message Manager as a value added solution to their customers.
Tencent had previously indicated it would let the service remain free and try to monetize the platform by offering value-added services like online games and mobile shopping.
Value added tax (VAT) is paid whenever you buy goods or a service.
China Mobile, the largest mobile service provider in the world, derives most of its revenues from mobile services as well as value added services like data, SMS, mobile Internet, voice mail and other features.
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"The essential value and ethos of the public service should remain, but its monolithic provision should change, " Mr Blair added.
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