Graver, a longtime TV exec, is helping the company become a more purposeful trailblazer.
Less well-known is that the company has become a major force in the European property market.
Since then, the company has become a lightning rod for anger over Wall Street's profligacy and seeming arrogance.
Duffaut said that the company has become a set of interrelated platforms.
The company has become a one-stop shop, and its use of technology has given it a leg up on the competition.
Now the company has become a big player in this new advertising market, but the chief operating officer was keen to reassure users that there were limits.
The company has become a prominent player in the so-called smart grid market because its communication technologies help utilities collect and manage energy consumption data from customers quickly.
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Ever since Google launched Adwords in June 2002, the company has become a literal cash machine, offering consumers everywhere the capability, as advertisers, to launch highly targeted ad campaigns globally.
The company has become a landmark in Mansfield, population 1, 296, but the area is perhaps better known for the Laura Ingalls Wilder museum and home, where the author wrote her "Little House" books.
Barcelo indicated that the Kashagan deal should help ENI close the valuation gap with its peers, but if there are problems and the gap doesn't close, then the company will become a prime takeover target.
Rand Paul of Kentucky agreed that the tech company had become a poster child for the need to revamp the loophole-ridden corporate tax code.
The people in the company become part of a team which has to turn the acquisition into a high value return on invested capital for IBM.
The company now plans to become a public company on May 18, though that date is somewhat flexible.
Also, with the launch of Amazon Cloud Player and Amazon Instant Video, the company is aiming to become a force to reckon with in the online media streaming business as well.
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And for years it has been totally inconceivable that any British government would tell a bidder for a UK company to take a hike because it didn't like the idea that said company might become absorbed in a giant Spanish, or US, or Indian group.
"Doing something like this runs a huge risk of entrenching in investors' minds the perception that Apple has become a value company, " said Anant Sundaram, a professor of finance at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth who personally owns Apple shares.
The goal is to move him soon into a manager's job, and eventually have him become a guy the company can tap to run a dealership.
First he dismissed the idea that the service would become a media company by forcing users to the site or official app for content, before reasserting his belief in syndication.
So why has the company been clamoring to become a stock exchange?
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The company may become part of a pan-European aircraft manufacturer by the end of the year, according to plans by European defence and industry ministers.
But the company has ambitions to become a player in the consumer market as well, and Huawei executives appear to be using the same low-price strategy to win over smartphone buyers.
With the production time set to drop from 24 months to under a year as the company expands, the floating "Orsos Islands" might very soon become a not-too-permanent fixture on the horizon.
Apple will need to give up being the company led by a genius in order to become a company full of genius.
The realization that building more factories, a key strategy for First Solar and its competitors for over five years, had become a really bad idea prompted the company to decide roughly a year ago to spend more money on research, said CEO Jim Hughes during the analyst day.
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The company has become nationally known as a knowledgeable and creative broker.
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Within three years, the once-growing company had become a liability.
Whimsical or not, the Twitter fail-whale is now an icon of an adolescence that the company is eager to move past as the service has become a powerhouse medium for not only mega-events like Election Night conversations and debates but also for corporate marketing teams eager to tap into the sentiments of crowds and gain real-time insights and opportunities.
At the end of May, Alitalia's board approved an arrangement under which Fintecna, a company wholly-owned by the state, will become a shareholder in Alitalia Servizi.
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When a professional service firm refuses to have any conversation off the clock or a company never leaves any money on the table in a negotiation, I always become concerned that they really do not understand that they are in the relationship business where referrals and word of mouth mean a lot.
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