For both sectors, data is the content that helps us to decide what to buy online, when we buy it and where we can source it.
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And while professional investors might scoff at using it to decide when to buy and sell, the breaking of an old record can be psychologically important.
He said that although vehicles had to be purchased through a so-called "national framework agreement", it was up to chief constables to decide which specific brand they wanted to buy.
But the government has yet to decide on which aircraft to buy after receiving bids from British, French and Czech companies.
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But if you are trying to decide whether to rent or to buy, and you take a purely financial point of view, it's risky to rely on brisk home-price appreciation to swing the argument.
Pfizer, trying to increase its already immense financial flexibility, will decide to buy Serono , the Swiss biotech firm that is currently up for sale.
So if we can be part of the mobility experience and have someone experience a GM vehicle, that is a benefit to us because maybe at some point that person will decide to buy a car.
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Will and Kate might want to wait and pay off some of those wedding bills before they decide to buy a Range Rover Supercharged.
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While rents and occupancies continue to rise, investors are concerned that demand for rentals will sag as more renters decide to buy.
These uncertainties make it difficult to decide how much insurance to buy.
Mr. Hopper, a 52-year-old construction company co-owner, questioned the notion of training talented store workers, noting that nowadays, he no longer needs them to decide what he wants to buy.
The dilemma for British museums and galleries is twofold: without knowing what will become available, how to decide which are the best works to buy, and then how to fund their purchases.
For those who have to decide whether to mail the mortgage check or buy groceries for the next month, the consequences may not matter.
Instead of being automatically offered to schools, head teachers now decide whether they want to buy it in as a means of helping their pupils.
Diet member Tetsundo Iwakuni tried to make Obuchi choose between the two by telling a story of a constituent who couldn't decide whether to buy new furniture now--or wait until later when the sales tax would be abolished.
Which is a nice way of saying he thinks someone could decide to buy the company.
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At that price consumers may decide to buy one of the console systems instead.
If you decide to buy a mortgage-backed bond, pay attention to where the pool is coming from.
If you decide to buy stocks for income, you must remember that the dividends may cease at any time.
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If you decide to buy something, it will require no more than waving your phone near a wireless scanner.
Maybe one of them will decide to buy an apartment from someone to whom Mr. Trump has licensed his name.
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Traders could decide to buy back the options should premiums shift to an advantageous price at some point ahead of expiration.
The Mittal brothers will retain a 26% stake which Jindal has the first right to buy if they decide to sell.
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For that price an oilfield services giant like Halliburton, or a Waste Management might just decide to buy the whole thing.
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The plane hasn't been flown yet, of course, and the military may never decide to buy these planes even if they do work.
But wherever you decide to buy, first check out the insurer.
If you do decide to buy, think twice about getting into a bind again by considering smaller and less expensive alternatives to what you had before.
How do they decide to buy products and services?
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But Cher recently indicated that the company could at some point decide to buy an operating system of its own, perhaps a signal to Google that it had better watch its step.
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