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| | Business model - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | A business model (also called a business design) is the mechanism by which a business intends to generate revenue and profits. | | | A business model is a description of how an organization functions, a general template that describes its major activities. | | | The model also describes products and services, customer markets and business process. |
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| | Roger Clarke's Open Business Models |
| | They also declare a business model to be "a description of the value a company offers to one or several segments of customers and the architecture of the firm and its network of partners for creating, marketing and delivering this value and relationship capital, in order to generate profitable and sustainable revenue streams". | | | The question 'to whom is revenue paid?' is conventionally answered by 'directly to the business enterprise', or 'to an organisation further along the value-chain, which has a contract with that business enterprise which requires some of the revenue to be remitted to it' (e.g. | | | Another definition, intermediate among the others, is that a business model is "the method of doing business by which a company can sustain itself -- that is, generate revenue" (Rappa 2001-2003). |
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http://www.anu.edu/people/Roger.Clarke/EC/Bled04.html
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| | What is a business model? |
| | The concept of a business model is most useful for a new business (which explains the predominance of ecommerce-related references in recent years), and it is essential for a new business to establish a positive feedback loop. | | | The other type of business that needs to worry about a business model is a business in a steadily declining market. | | | There was broad agreement between the various definitions in only two areas: that a business model (i) focuses on the mechanisms for generation of revenue in the value chain, in terms of (ii) broad principles (rather than the detail to be found in a full business plan). |
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http://www.audiencedialogue.org/busmod.html
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| | Open Source as Business Model |
| | Businesses large and small can now use the software and evolve it as necessary to suit their own business needs. | | | I wrote a complete business system in that language including general ledger, payroll, ap, ar, billing, job cost, and inventory. | | | The benefit to smaller business is obvious as now companies that could never afford an SAP or PeopleSoft installation now have a mini-system on par (and interoperable with) with what the larger corporations are using. |
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http://www.omidyar.net/group/open-source/news/2
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| | ebXML - Enabling A Global Electronic Market |
| | The evolution of many new business models will be enabled by ebXML, through business process patterns and the'commoditization' of such business processes. | | | The specification for business process definition enables an organization to express its business processes so that they are understandable by other organizations. | | | Standards-based business process and message definitions will drastically reduce the cost of negotiating trading partner agreements. |
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http://www.ebxml.org/white_papers/whitepaper.htm
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| | Business Models on the Web Professor Michael Rappa |
| | A number of business method patents relevant to e-commerce have been granted. | | | Indeed, business models (or more broadly speaking, "business methods") have fallen increasingly within the realm of patent law. | | | The manufacturer model can be based on efficiency, improved customer service, and a better understanding of customer preferences. |
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http://digitalenterprise.org/models/models.html
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| | Business Model Generator (BMG) - Welcome |
| | A business model is the engine of the enterprise; it describes (preferably on one page and in a diagrammatic fashion) how product and services flow from suppliers to the business, how these products and services are transformed in a value-added process by the business and then transmitted or transferred to its clients and customers. | | | For existing businesses, even mega corporations, they need to continually update and revisit their business models to ensure that they are changing and responding to evolving conditions in their marketplaces. | | | Although we have developed the BMG primarily as a tool to assist new business formation, we have found that not-for-profit corporations, charitable organizations and non governmental organizations can benefit and learn from having a business model. |
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http://www.hardstorage.com/bmg
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| | The Management of Business Practices and Business Practice Insight. 01/19/06 |
| | That means these Business Practices must be utilized as a guide for every business decision to ensure that all decisions are clearly aligned in pursuit of business success. | | | Our goal is to provide sound business practice solutions that can be adapted to virtually any business with cut-and-paste ease, growing your business smoothly, predictably, and without a lot of undesired headaches. | | | That is why you need to diligently follow another sound business practices process: evaluate, rank, and compensate in order to retain your valuable employees, and ensure the future success of your business. |
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http://www.sound-business-practices.com
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| | Setting Up Shop |
| | A company using a hybrid business model can derive revenue and profits directly from the sale of licenses for the software in question as opposed to deriving revenue and profits only through more indirect means, as in an open-source business model. | | | In the traditional software business model your company provides all (or almost all) of the value to customers, and you realize revenues and profits in return for that value through traditional software license fees. | | | In an open-source business model much of the value provided to customers will not be provided solely by you, but rather by other developers who are attracted to working on your open-source products and who will thus help augment your resources as opposed to your competitors'. |
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http://www.hecker.org/writings/setting-up-shop.html
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| | A New Business Model for Locksmiths |
| | Locksmiths will also be encouraged to bring repeat business and accounts through an incentive program. | | | If your business has high turn over or simply likes to keep up security, FAX your contact information and billing address to 925-691-3885 and Hunter-Ashwell will contact you. | | | The primary company will supply advertising, standardized charges and billing, a supply chain and many other business related tasks. |
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http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/4/prwebxml227560.php
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| | Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution |
| | Such a business can charge for all use of this platform, whether on a standard software installation basis, or a pay-per-use basis, or perhaps some other model. | | | On the flip side, customers can become reliant upon a platform and, when prices rise, be forced to decide between paying a little more in the short run to stick with the platform, or spending a large quantity of money to change to a different platform, which may save them money in the long run. | | | Computers and automation have become so ingrained and essential to day-to-day business that a sensible business should not rely on a single vendor to provide essential services. |
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http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/brian.html
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| | InternetWeek The Business and Technology of the Internet http://internetweek.cmp.com |
| | While Enron's natural gas and power businesses are growing by leaps and bounds online, that growth will slow considerably as more industry players and independent e-marketplaces get into the act, says AMR Research analyst Bill Swanton. | | | The company doesn't break out EnronOnline's contribution to revenue--though in the third quarter, revenue for Enron's wholesale energy business, which includes trading operations, more than doubled from the year-earlier period to $28.1 billion. | | | Increasing.NET and J2EE application complexity is making effective application management more vital for business success, and at the same time, more difficult to achieve. |
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http://www.internetweek.com/transformation2000/coverstory/enron.htm
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| | Linux PR: Two new products on Linux+Mac+Windows drive new business model for Appgen Software |
| | Appgen® Accounting for Small Business is a tightly integrated industrial strength business solution that includes all eleven award-winning high-end PowerWindows Business and Accounting Applications in a package that will compete in the midrange and low-end markets for business management software. | | | More sophisticated users, or "Simple" users who grow more sophisticated with their business needs may at any time toggle to the "Total" business management mode which will be familiar to any professional bookkeeper, accountant, or controller. | | | This new business model includes the recent formation of Appgen Personal Software, LLC which, along with Appgen Business Software, Inc., will jointly market business and personal financial management products as "The Appgen Software Companies". |
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http://linuxpr.com/releases/3376.html
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| | employee benefit Group Business Model, Inc. cobra insurance |
| | As a business owner or manager, you are faced with the challenge of ensuring that your workforce is well looked after when it comes to retirement, HEALTHCARE and income protection (disability and Life). | | | Legitimate business reasons are needed for the reduction in force | | | MSAs can only be established for employees of small businesses. |
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http://benefits-consulting.freeservers.com/Index.htm
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| | New York Employee Benefits Insurance, Group Business Model, Inc. cobra consulting |
| | Contact Us Management wants to respond to their employees who must deal with the decrease in health insurance options such as their physician choice and an increase in payroll contributions to aid managements control of the medical budget costs. | | | Group Business Model, Inc will assist you with determining your level of risk, your funding options and evaluation of managed care options (PPO, POS, HMO). | | | If you have not explored the group insurance market place for competitive proposals in the last three or four years, you may be missing out on an opportunity to make significant changes in your group insurance program. |
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http://www.megspace.com/business/salary/New_York_Employee_Benefit.htm
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| | Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution |
| | The "unique value proposition" of our business plan was, and continues to be, to cater to our customers' need to gain control over the operating system they were using by delivering the technical benefits of freely-redistributable software (source code and a free license) to technically-oriented OS consumers. | | | A fluke that was generating enough cash to keep our little business and a number of other small businesses in the black, but a fluke nonetheless. | | | To that end Open Source is not a liability but a competitive advantage. |
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http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/young.html
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| | Razor and blades business model - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In effect, this is the same as offering a high-interest loan to the customer to offset the price of the master product, which is to be paid off in installments as they use the consumables. | | | The master product may actually be sold at a loss, in order to "capture" the customer into using the consumable product. | | | The razor and blades business model (also called the "bait and hook model" or the "tied products model") works by selling a "master" product at a subsidised price, and making the profit on high margin "consumables" that are essential to the use of the master product. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Razor_and_blades_business_model
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| | Analyst Corner - Assessing the Offshore Development Model - Analyst Corner - CIO |
| | To address these questions, application development and maintenance must be viewed not as a mysterious black hole that consumes business requirements and spits back applications, but rather as a manageable business process that produces application functionality - and that does so to a measurable quality level. | | | Building the Business Case for Standardizing and Consolidating Enterprise Reporting | | | But - as is the case with many on-shore development organizations - customers find it difficult to track other performance measures, such as productivity and quality. |
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http://www2.cio.com/analyst/report2852.html
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| | Internet Business Models |
| | Competition in cyberspace may become even fiercer in the future and therefore the right business plan is what will eventually ensure long-term success. | | | The company has grown in the past 7 years with 71 acquisitions to its credit, the latest being its investments in an optical equipment company and speech recognition software makers. | | | Their built-in self-service system for customers, employees and suppliers improved productivity and accuracy and brought down costs by 100's of millions of dollars. |
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http://stylusinc.com/website/business_models.htm
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| | Nanocorp Open Business Model : JFS Consulting : Portfolio Business |
| | We are a proud member of the Nanocorp Webring and the Webring of Small Business Revolutionaries. | | | Sohodojo is home of the nanocorp and small business revolutionaries. | | | the power of 'Small is Good' business webs. |
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http://popculturestore.com/nanocorp_welcome.html
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| | Datamonitor - Fees and the Changing Financial Advisor Business Model - Market Analysis Report |
| | The main effects of the move to fees will be limited to the higher net worth market and specialist ends of the market, especially among financial advisors who operate as up-market wealth managers or as specialist investment advisors; | | | Assesses the impact on financial advisors of moving from commission based business to fee based models; | | | How fee based structures are developed and what changes there will be to IFA's profitability as they move away from commissions. |
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http://www.datamonitor.com/industries/research/?pid=BFFS0387
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| | Betting on Tools that Power Blogs |
| | Business Week Online may receive a share of any fees you pay for services. | | | Accounting Concepts - CPAs - Taxes - Accounting Our firm provides businesses and individuals a high quality accounting and income tax option at a reasonable rate. | | | Coast to coast we serve clients throughout the US Guaranteed E-mini Trading System Since 1994 Try My Guaranteed E-minis Trading System! |
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http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/nov2004/nf20041111_5342_db035.htm
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| | Business Process Management Initiative |
| | In June of 2005, the Business Process Management Initiative (BPMI.org) and the Object Management Group™ (OMG™) announced the merger of their Business Process Management (BPM) activities to provide thought leadership and industry standards for this vital and growing industry. | | | BPMI’s Board of Directors, along with the leadership of the OMG’s Business Enterprise Integration Domain Task Force, form the core of the BPMI Steering Committee, which provides Business Process Management thought leadership and expertise for the entire industry through education programs, public advocacy, and advice to the combined BPM standards work at OMG. | | | Separately, a new standard defining the Semantics of Business Vocabulary and Business Rules (SVBR) completed member evaluation and started the series of votes leading to formal adoption. |
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http://www.bpmi.org
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| | Business Opportunity Classifieds - Home Based Business Opportunities |
| | Business Opportunities Classifieds (BocOnline.com) - Serving the small business and work at home based business opportunity communities since 1996. | | | BocOnline has a mission to provide principle-centered, value-based BizOpp resources and ideas to our audience of opportunity seekers and to our small business and work at home based business advertisers. | | | It should help people who want make money fast or build up a home business to lose money to scammers. |
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| | Xinhua PR Newswire - The Voice of Chinese Business |
| | About Analysys International: Analysys International is the leading Internet based provider of business information about technology, media and the telecom industry in China with the mission to help their clients make better business decisions. | | | However, Analysys International says the rapid increase of user base hasn't brought a clear profit model. | | | BEIJING, Jan. 19 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- Analysys International, a leading Internet-based business information service provider, says that China's P2P Streaming market is developing quickly and had over 2.35 million streaming media users by end of 2005. |
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http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/micro_stories.pl?ACCT=908496&TICK=XPRN&STORY=/www/story/01-19-2006/0004263420&EDATE=Jan+19,+2006
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| | Master Franchising Business Opportunities- Franchise Sales Directory. |
| | The prospective business buyer is responsible to thoroughly investigate any franchise or business opportunity listed on this web site, obtain all appropriate disclosure documents, and seek expert consultation prior to making any investment decision. | | | Glamour Secrets offers the franchisee an opportunity to take advantage of their 15 plus years as a leader in the retail beauty product industry and create a large and profitable business of their own. | | | HIT is now offering executive level exclusive master franchising business opportunities. |
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| | Linux Inc. |
| | Columbia Business School Executive Education Are there better ways to drive growth for your company&; Columbia offers short non-degree programs in leadership, strategy and more that deliver a rich, global perspective on the latest theories and trends transforming business around the world. | | | Helps small businesses project a more professional image and streamline communications. | | | Cheap Innovative Business Soulutions. Reviews. Make your next business presentation look professional. |
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http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_05/b3918001_mz001.htm
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| | UML tools for software development and Modelling - Enterprise Architect Full Lifecycle UML modeling tool |
| | An object oriented UML and business analysis tool for the full development life-cycle, Enterprise Architect provides the competitive edge for software development, project management, requirements management and business analysis - at a sensible price" | | | The low licence cost of Enterprise Architect makes it simple to equip every member of your development team, and a free read only "Viewer" edition of Enterprise Architect is available for download – so you can show your clients and investors development as you progress. | | | From concept to deployment, EA has the power, the performance and the price to boost your productivity. |
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| | IT Conversations Wiki Main / BusinessModel |
| | But I've been so flat-out busy with production that I've done virtually nothing to cover the expenses let alone pay myself a salary. | | | And that bank account is going the wrong way, particularly compared to the days of getting those CEO/CTO salaries. | | | IT Conversations isn't about to die or disappear if I don't get a sudden infusion of cash. |
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http://www.itconversations.com/wikis/itc/pmwiki.php/Main/BusinessModel
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| | A Successful Linux/Open-Source Business Model Linux Journal |
| | You and I have been given access to the legal services that might otherwise prevent the movement of creating a Commons for the People and to make possible the ability of individuals to follow an alternative professional track to what the big business folks offer. | | | Or, imagine a writer that records short stories, places them in the Public Domain, but then also offers "packaged" merchandise for gifts and presents. | | | Select your preferred way to display the comments and click "Save settings" to activate your changes. |
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http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6149
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| | The Big Picture: Radio's Wounded Business Model |
| | Entering the radio business, on the other hand, requires a very expensive, very rare government license. | | | Like someone else said up above, it's amazing that these corporate Clear Channel stations are still in business. | | | » Carnival of the Capitalists from Business Opportunities Weblog |
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http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2004/07/clear_channels_.html
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| | Nanocorp Open Business Model : JFS Consulting Inc. : Portfolio Project |
| | While this is an exciting and rewarding public service project, the pre-election publicity associated with this project will serve a valuable local marketing agenda. | | | - 'War College' of the Small Is Good Business Revolution. | | | This project is the sandbox we are using to open and build a strategic partnership with the National Federation of Independent Business, the largest and most powerful lobby representing the interests of small and independent business at both the state and Federal level in the United States. |
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http://nfib.sohodojo.com/nanocorp-obm-jfs.php3
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| | Vanguard Software Corporation - Decision Technology Experts |
| | Vanguard's desktop software, DecisionPro, is designed for managers, consultants, and analysts who make business decisions based on uncertain estimates and imperfect information. | | | Vanguard provides Decision-Support System (DSS) software ranging from desktop tools for management decision-making to server-based systems that help your entire organization work smarter. | | | Our server-based product line, DecisionScript, merges the analytic power of DecisionPro with Expert Systems technology (a form of Artificial Intelligence) and Web-based, thin-client delivery. |
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| | Object Management Group |
| | Adobe, Sterling Commerce and More Join OMG to work on Business Process Management Standards | | | The OMG Continues Its Work on Business Process Standards | | | OMG Announces Program for SOA, MDA and Web Services Workshop: Integrating the Enterprise and Beyond |
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| | Unicorn Woman Model Horse Company Description |
| | I expect to be around for many years in the future and look forward to doing business with you. | | | The Unicorn Woman is a Model Horse Business. | | | For a while, it was a subsidiary of Tender Loving Care Nursing and Related Services, Inc. In 1987, the tack business was spun-off. |
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http://www.unicornwoman.com/uw_cmpny.htm
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| | Fool.com: SBC Bundles Up for Long Term [Motley Fool Take] October 21, 2004 |
| | The company, which is a Motley Fool Stock Advisor recommendation, has also reversed a recent sales downtrend by reporting two consecutive quarters of revenue growth, and third-quarter revenues were up 1.4%, driven by a growing data business and continued progress in consumer bundling. | | | The company's earnings in the third quarter came in even with analysts' expectations of $0.38 per share and $0.02 ahead of last year's earnings. | | | SBC has always been very responsive to trends, and I have been impressed with its partnering with satellite/DISH Network provider EchoStar (Nasdaq: DISH) and the joint venture it has established with BellSouth (NYSE: BS) to manage Cingular Wireless. |
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http://www.fool.com/News/mft/2004/mft04102122.htm
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| | EFQM > Home |
| | EFQM, a not for profit membership foundation, is the primary source for organisations in Europe looking to excel in their market and in their business. | | | Founded in 1989 by the CEOs of prominent European businesses, EFQM is now the hub of excellent, globally-minded organisations of all sizes and sectors, and both private and public. | | | Join the Assessor Community for the 15th year of the EEA and engage into this unique opportunity to learn from real cases. |
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| | JDS Uniphase's Acterna Buy To Boost Business Model - Forbes.com |
| | Standard and Poor's Equity Research maintained a "hold" rating on JDS Uniphase (nasdaq: JDSU - news - people) after the company agreed to acquire Acterna, a provider of broadband and optical test and management solutions, for $760 million. | | | Business Services News - Service Industry News - Services Industry News | | | JDS Uniphase's Acterna Buy To Boost Business Model - Forbes.com |
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http://www.forbes.com/home/markets/2005/05/24/0524automarketscan05.html
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| | BBC NEWS Science/Nature Future phones could be a hard sell |
| | Businesses may use smartphones because they could easily tie them into their corporate computer networks, said Mr East, but most consumers were happy making calls and sending text messages. | | | Mr East is now head of Cognima which makes software to help people co-ordinate address books across several different devices. | | | If people start sharing ringtones and images instead of paying for them, the plans of the operators to reap rewards from new data services could stumble. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_2012000/2012808.stm
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| | Boston.com / Business / Technology / Suit targets heart of Google business model |
| | Boston.com / Business / Technology / Suit targets heart of Google business model | | | PARIS -- AXA, the world's number three insurer, is taking Google Inc. to court next month in the latest trademark challenge to threaten the heart of Google's business model -- advertising. |
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http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2004/04/26/suit_targets_heart_of_google_business_model
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| | The business model of the funny pages MetaFilter |
| | The business model of the funny pages | | | When I was in college in the early 90s (B.W. -- before web), I used to subscribe to the daily newspaper just to get my comics fix every morning (back when Bill Waterson, Gary Larson, and Berkeley Breathed were king). | | | This thread has been archived and is closed to new comments |
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http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/30018
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| | Boing Boing: YOUR FAILED BUSINESS MODEL IS NOT MY PROBLEM sticker/tee design |
| | Boing Boing: YOUR FAILED BUSINESS MODEL IS NOT MY PROBLEM sticker/tee design | | | YOUR FAILED BUSINESS MODEL IS NOT MY PROBLEM sticker/tee design | | | This sticker/t-shirt design -- YOUR FAILED BUSINESS MODEL IS NOT MY PROBLEM, with a Creative Communist logo -- is pretty sweet. |
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