For each transaction, a third-party service must verify that both buyer and seller are over 21.
Others have ceded control to third-party service providers and business managers who now make their own technology decisions.
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Knowing whether a third-party service outage will be an annoying distraction or shut an application down is critical for organizations to understand.
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Federal prosecutors and securities regulators have brought dozens of insider-trading cases involving hedge funds in recent years, often focusing on third-party service providers engaged in expert-networking services.
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Facebook requires advertisers to disclose on their Facebook Fan Page when a user must enroll in a third-party service in order to benefit from that service, which is offered on the page.
What about requiring every third-party service provider to protect personal customer data through encryption, tokenization or another advanced security technology, through clauses written into and enforced as part of standard service level agreements?
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Or you can delegate this function to a third-party wallet service such as Coinbase.
But how should Oprah the soon-to-be network owner feel about its most valuable asset hawking a third-party streaming service?
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As I argue elsewhere, an example of this is the manner in which legal departments control the tripartite relationship between client, law firm, and third-party legal service outsourcing providers.
To process the payments, businesses must rely on third-party merchant service providers (MSPs), which offer a dizzying array of rate structures that range from a flat rate to a percentage of the amount charged to the card.
Of course, RIM could just add IMAP support directly to its phones so that this whiz-bang tech would work with any third-party email service and wouldn't have to go through BIS in the process, but that would be crazy talk, right?
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Nina Olson, the national tax advocate, whose job at the IRS is to protect taxpayers' interests, has called for new laws that would require a third-party payroll service to post a bond for its clients that would cover any lost tax payments.
But it may be possible to get better insights from understanding how third-party developers use your service in their apps and how they talk and collaborate on your service.
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Increasing third-party billing for non-service related injuries by 10 percent, suggested Agg, would free up more money to help service-related injuries.
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Twitter is planning its own photo-sharing service, which will compete with several existing third-party services like Twitpic, Yfrog, Instagram and Flickr.
People were duped into sending a partial or full payment to a third-party agent via a wire transfer payment service and to fax their payment receipt to the seller as proof of payment.
Google's new service also works with third-party document creation and editing apps that are built to work with it.
Having started as a basic, over-the-top (OTT) messaging service, the company has evolved itself into a social platform where third-party developers can sell apps and take a 20% cut of revenues.
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Face.com has been providing its service to a number of third-party developers and the company said in its blog post that it will continue to support those developers after the acquisition.
To that end, WePay has also opened up its application programming interface (API) to allow its community of third-party developers to create new products based off of its service.
Third-party providers install and maintain huge reserves of public cloud service capacity: so you can call on extra resources at peak times and release them when they are no longer needed.
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Cubby is built on LogMeIn's own cloud data sync and storage service - not hosted on a third party cloud data platform - and takes advantage of the same online-banking-level encryption capabilities used in LogMeIn's connectivity offerings (like LogMeIn Free and Pro, LogMeIn Rescue and join.me).
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"We have taken immediate action to indefinitely suspend their services in connection with RockYou and we are reviewing all third-party providers to ensure compliance with our platform partners' terms of service, " she said.
Twitter might just be among the first to take that path: it has has already spawned a vast number of third-party applications and web sites users tap into to interact with the service, such as Seesmic and Brizzly.
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The cable companies will co-brand Sprint's cellular service in each of their markets and will sell the phone service through Sprint retail stores, cable retail outlets and other third-party distributors.
Rather than shifting or shedding load, the principal response strategy for customers receiving service under MHP rates has been to enter power-supply contracts with third-party ESCOs that limit their exposure to daily price fluctuations.
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That depends not just on how many users Twitter attracts, but whether they choose to interact with the service through Twitter.com, or through phones, gaming consoles, and third-party services and applications.
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The groups also say that the cost of treating service-connected injuries could lead to veterans quickly maxing out their benefits in third-party insurance, risking coverage for not just them but their families, who are also covered under the plans.
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TiVo offers the TiVo service and TiVo DVRs directly to consumers online at www.tivo.com and through third-party retailers.
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