Blackstone Group 's ( BX - news - people ) acquisition of Alliance Data Systems while selling the stock short.
Then they began trading information about weaknesses in computer systems and selling software kits to exploit them, complete with technical support and updates.
But at NetWorth, a networking equipment company, Floyd engineered one of the most successful initial public offerings of the early 1990s and left before Cisco Systems made selling me-too networking products a dicey proposition.
Four companies rushed out their own systems and started selling as early as summer 2000--and then they crashed into a legal mountain.
So, too, by buying US weapons systems, Israel has harmed its own military industries, which are blocked from selling or developing systems for the IDF contractors.
Russia seems to have buckled under international pressure to abstain from directly selling weapons systems to Iran.
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But VTEL management was reluctant: It had a nice little business selling complex systems to schools and hospitals.
But VTEL's management was reluctant: It had a nice little business selling complex systems to schools and hospitals.
If it succeeds, it plans to start selling the systems for critical power applications in the telecommunication and healthcare sectors.
"It turned out to be a dumb idea, " says Carroll, and the firm reclaimed its old name and returned to selling control systems.
It offers outsourcing services to clients interested in developing credit scoring systems as well as selling software for a client to use in-house.
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QBotix is selling its systems in 300-kilowatt units that include a robot, a back-up robot, steel track and tracking stands for the solar panels.
An Iona College English major who got a master's in business administration from New York University at night, Greifeld spent much of his career selling computer systems for processing and clearing trades.
Cisco Systems and Tandberg are even selling high-end, Star Trek style videoconferencing setups for the workplace.
It was 1992 and I was selling sales automation systems for Siebel.
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For the time being, however, the two companies have to concentrate on selling as many systems as they can during the Christmas season.
It bought a privately owned Finnish company, Martis Oy, in 1993 and is selling cable telephone systems in the Netherlands, in partnership with Dutch company A2000.
Founded in 2009 as a distributor of solar energy equipment, Kiwi was called PVPower before it changed its name just recently to focus on selling solar electric systems to consumers rather than installers.
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Selling near-complete systems may give ITT an advantage over individual equipment makers when bidding for jobs.
Emachines hasn't had much success selling more expensive consumer systems, so targeting business buyers with less expensive PCs makes sense, Baker says.
Motorola is planning on splitting up in the first quarter of 2011 when it spins off its handset business to shareholders and sells its wireless infrastructure business, leaving its enterprise mobility business, which mostly consists of selling radios and wireless systems to first responders.
Telecom gear maker UTStarcom grew tenfold in four years by selling low-cost phone systems in China, then suddenly stumbled.
In the second and third quarters of this year, reports TeleSpan analyst Elliot Gold, Polycom was the unit sales leader, selling 7, 759 ViewStation systems to PictureTel's 7, 180 and VTEL's 2, 000.
It competes with IBM, EMC, NetApp, Hewlett-Packard and Hitachi Data Systems in the storage hardware market by selling products like flash drives, magneto-optical drives, magnetic tape drives and compact drives that are used for backing up data on servers.
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Three years later she decided to go directly into selling her own water-treatment systems.
Waechter has been moving JDSU from selling individual components to increasingly complex systems that carry higher margins.
It's the same idea as IBM selling not just boxes but integrated systems.
The PC maker is selling EMC's midrange storage systems and eventually will manufacture them in an effort to keep costs low.
Still, Blomkvist said that even with reasonable buying terms with the biggest music labels, after paying taxes and operators for using their systems, Sony Ericsson would hardly profit from selling music.
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It comes two days after HP announced it would be selling or spinning-off its Personal Systems Group and immediately stopping production on TouchPads and smartphones.
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