In 1914 Watson took over an ailing vendor of business equipment called Computing-Tabulating-Recording Co.
As a vendor of wildly popular, high-end consumer gadgets, Apple would seem to be particularly vulnerable.
Leighton started out in the 1960s as a Greenwich Village vendor of Mexican dresses, sandals and the occasional used trinket.
This diverse vendor of industrial supplies has 50, 000 employees in 130 countries.
In early 2010 HTC, a leading vendor of Android devices, agreed to pay royalties to Microsoft for the use of its patents.
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Dell, you know, the Round Rock, Texas vendor of PCs and servers.
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Visitors to a site run by Atkins Nutritionals, a New York vendor of diet aids, had to sit patiently for 40 seconds to download pages.
Microsoft is still primarily a vendor of software licences, earning fat profits that it can use to subsidise a search war almost indefinitely.
Another new choice, Computer Associates, vendor of software to corporate networks, is revamping its strategy to better compete with Oracle and recover its lost profitability.
Satellite TV vans lined the curb on Fifth Avenue, and dozens of tired-looking reporters stood nearby, slurping cups of coffee provided by a vendor of iPhone cases.
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Evolution, perhaps the world's largest vendor of credits for the suppression of carbon dioxide, sells them to polluters outside the U.S. that have agreed to help curtail carbon emissions.
The company also announced today an expanded partnership with Hortonworks, a commercial vendor of Hadoop, to give customers access to an enterprise-ready distribution of Hadoop with the newly released solutions.
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But Fargo has North Dakota State University, a vendor of young brains employed by a large Microsoft division and by newer outfits, such as Alien Technology, an RFID chip leader.
More recently, the firm leveraged its market leadership in selling physical books online to become the dominant vendor of e-readers, leaving potential rivals such as Sony unable to gain much traction.
The deal took place as part of a transaction in which Hayes took his company public by merging it into the already public Access Beyond, a small vendor of networking hardware.
Samsung, which surpassed Apple as the world's largest vendor of smartphones in early 2012, maintained its number one position for the year by shipping 213 million smartphones worldwide, according to Strategy Analytics.
Investors will get a snapshot Thursday of Dell 's efforts to transform itself from humdrum vendor of basic-black PCs to American businesses into a company able to sell snazzy machines to consumers worldwide.
O. of Green Armor Solutions, a vendor of cybersecurity technologies which I co-invented, and which specializes in applying knowledge of human dynamics so as to ensure that maximum security can be delivered with maximum convenience.
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NetApp, the third largest vendor of external data storage systems in the world after EMC and IBM, said the acquisition will help it win business in the rapidly growing bandwidth intensive video and high-performance computing markets.
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For example, if a manufacturer uses pirated software in the "manufacture, distribution, marketing, or sales" of products sold in Washington, Microsoft could sue the vendor of those products and get an injunction to stop the goods from being sold.
Both predicting the future of work and designing for it (whether as a corporate HR executive, a coffee shop owner, a vendor of virtual-work technologies or an entrepreneur developing a co-working space) involves thinking about a messy and complicated bundle of ideas with at least a couple of dozen major dimensions.
The Furniture Village chain - which, as a vendor of big-ticket durable goods, is particularly sensitive to consumer frugality - reported almost a thousand transactions at its 40 stores by mid-afternoon on Boxing Day, putting it on course to beat the 1, 200 sales it closed on the same day in 2011.
Perhaps of even greater importance, Microsoft also requires all outside vendors to read and comply with the Microsoft Vendor Code of Conduct, which also prohibits incentives such as kickbacks or bribes.
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Yet readers of a popular Australian men's magazine voted the 44-year old ex-fish and chip vendor one of the world's sexiest women.
Currently, there is no vendor capable of delivering a full platform, nor are any companies ready to deploy such a platform across the enterprise.
For some events, such as a vendor change of control or gross negligence, termination rights are often clearly defined in the contract and more straightforward to justify.
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In the situation where the introduction leads to an acquisition by another vendor partner of the company, the savings may be expected both from the acquirer and from the acquired.
The networking vendor has of late seen its new products gain healthy traction in the marketplace, helping it regain second position behind Cisco in the router market and push Huawei down to fourth in Q3 2012.
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Hicks has streamlined operations, minimized markdowns, installed a more disciplined allocations system to determine which stores get how many of what shoes and increased vendor exclusivity (half of product styles and colors are sold only at Foot Locker).
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