Open Stack cloud services company, SoftLayer, seems to be doing the acquisition dance with a couple of suitors at the moment.

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So a boss with a stack of options to buy the company's shares at a set price has a strong incentive to repurchase shares.

ECONOMIST: Share buybacks

"This company does not try to stack the deck when we study an important question, " says Dr. Andrew Bodnar , senior vice president at Bristol-Myers Squibb.

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Given that this is an entirely new product from the company, we thought we'd stack it up against the third and fourth generation iPads -- the latter coming out just seven months after we threw down cash on the former.

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Each of these metrics was a quarterly record for the company, and we will be looking closely at how they stack up in the fourth quarter earnings release.

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An Apple executive said Tuesday that the company's annual U.S. tax return adds up to a stack of paperwork more than two feet high.

WSJ: Review & Outlook: The Apple Tax Diversion

My bias is that management usually tries to stack the deck in their favor of getting the maximum amount of compensation out of the company for the least amount of performance.

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"If you are an insurance company and are starting a service for your claims adjusters, the Services Delivery Platform software stack will know how to integrate it with your existing e-business infrastructure, transcode it, and deliver content to these in-car devices, " Desai said.

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Stack is a buyer of PepsiCo (nyse: PEP - news - people ) because of the company's profitability, competitive advantage and financial standing.

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