Not only did Wall Street lose big in the election, investors and financial services customers still have a fighting chance for some real consumer protection.
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Yet we did an audit with one of our large financial services customers and found that 75% of its employees had access to confidential information not required for their jobs.
Other providers of internet services, such as AOL, have complained bitterly that they are not able to offer the services customers want because of the lack of access to BT's local network.
High up-front investment requirements combined with uncertainty about what types of wireless multimedia services customers will want "are valid reasons for operators to be very cautious" when paying for licenses, according to a Lehman Brothers report.
Mobile phones will be the key to this growth and MasterCard is positioning itself to capitalize. eServeGlobal has established itself as a mobile services provider in more than 50 countries worldwide, with more than 90 mobile and financial services customers.
So are most wireless services customers.
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SYNC's new suite of services allows customers the ability to integrate with off-board services and provide a personalized infotainment experience to the driver by utilizing the customer's own phone.
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In startups , entrepreneurs might do better in offering products and services that customers actually want.
Extending services to customers and partners, a la cloud style, certainly moves them in this direction.
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In Japan Honda provides free connectivity services if customers commit to periodic maintenance at a Honda dealer.
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The authority said by opening on Saturdays it could provide services when customers wanted them without increasing costs.
Whether anyone can earn any money from phone-casting sports or providing exclusive sports-related services to customers isn't clear.
Hooper Holmes entered the health care business in the 1980s, providing skilled nursing services to customers in their homes.
Companies such as the Geo Group and CCA do not earn their money by providing goods or services to customers.
This will allow the firms to provide a suite of integrated services to customers to enhance the production from wells.
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Does a bank offer a full range of services to all comers, or focus on a narrow stratum of services and customers?
Advisers clearly have a higher opinion of their services than customers do.
It should be stressed that Amazon is one of myriad companies that uses its balance sheet to provide banking services to customers.
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Already, Nike with its Nike iD services lets customers personalize and design their own Nike merchandise, down to their favorite colors and materials.
An increase in the popularity of smartphones and higher usage of mobile value added services by customers are further fueling growth for the company.
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The opportunity was prompted by what I had noted in this sector- a total lack of professionalism, quality and services that customers really yearned for.
Now the airline is actively marketing its own content system to partners in providing comparison shopping services to customers, cutting out the GDS systems entirely.
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Countrywide said that while they are "committed to providing excellent products and services to customers, " they "do not comment on the detail of individual cases".
Soppier also believes that the adoption of virtualization and cloud computing will reduce the amount of IT infrastructure and services that customers need over the long term.
Comer says BarCap also plans to expand into gold storage as part of its services for customers who want to hold a stake in the physical asset.
The firm services utility customers in Oklahoma and western Arkansas.
Small cells are critical to the future of wireless broadband by enabling operators to continue to provide high-quality, consistent services to customers without the need to build costly, and sometimes logistically challenging, cell towers.
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Anne Pace, a Bank of America spokeswoman, says the bank's transfer services allow customers more choices and flexibility than having no plan, in which case all overdrafts are declined at the point of sale.
Meanwhile Google could use the white spaces as a way of offering free wi-fi services to customers with phones powered by its Android operating system, as well as to other members of the public.
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DreamWorks, Paramount and Universal are betting that HD DVD's powerful tools for interactivity will let them make a tonne of money out of selling all manner of online services to customers who buy their discs.
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