Shell aims to combine coal gasification with gas-to-diesel technology in an alliance with coal miner Anglo American.
Now in an alliance with IBM, it can provide advanced analytics on the data prior to visualization to provide greater insights.
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Last week Mitsui Mutual, the weakest of the seven, joined in an alliance with Sumitomo Mitsui Bank, Sumitomo Life and Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance, a non-life insurer.
But their control over this territory is now said to be facing a challenge from their former allies, the Gulf Cartel, in an alliance with the Sinaloa cartel led by Joaquin Guzman, Mexico's most wanted man.
In practical terms Chavez has been the leader in forging an alliance with Middle Eastern rogue states and with Iran , in particular, and is now trying to draw new populist leaders into such an alliance.
Nokia ditched its own software development group in favor of an alliance with Microsoft, thus losing significant intellectual capital.
This follows reports that Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq had formed an alliance with a Kurdish party across the border in Syria.
AND, these deals were under the watch of TDF Capital, which formed an alliance in 2007 with Kleiner to set up KPCB China.
The company has lurched from one strategy to another, such as a (subsequently aborted) investment in Nextel Communications, a wireless firm, in 1994 and an on-off alliance with Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation in 1995.
But in December the Interior Ministry announced the dissolution of a seven-man cell linked to Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb, the same group that had formed an Islamic emirate in northern Mali in alliance with Tuareg tribesmen.
Velayati, a senior adviser to Khamenei, has joined in an unusual three-way alliance with Qalibaf and parliament member Gholam Ali Haddad Adel.
"Eat Pray Love is an event motion picture for women, and we are very excited to partner with Sony Pictures in an alliance that allows us to support the film while also providing immersive content and product experiences for our core female consumer, " said Mindy Grossman , CEO of HSN.
In April, the company formed an alliance with Yahoo Japan to launch a PC-based social game platform called Yahoo Mobage.
More big moves: in April, the company formed an alliance with Yahoo Japan to launch a PC-based social game platform called Yahoo Mobage.
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Last year, Qantas announced an alliance with Emirates in an attempt to strengthen its hold on the Australian market and boost its international operations from the country.
We have to really consider what that means, in terms of an alliance and a friendly understanding with Pakistan.
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Back in 1994, the company formally announced an alliance with Intel that promised to rewrite the fundamental architecture of computing.
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Re-examining 2.5m Baghdad votes will take weeks, giving him longer to negotiate an alliance with smaller parties in the hope of keeping Mr Allawi out.
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By giving options to loyal shareholders, the government is guarding against the risk that its stake might drop below 50% should Air France swap equity with another airline in an alliance.
The resulting scandal caused Lula to lose interest in difficult tax and labour-law reforms in his second term and to forge an alliance with the PMDB, an agglomeration of regional barons with a voracious appetite for patronage and pork.
They even persuaded Mr Garang to make some sort of an alliance with the opposition movements in northern Sudan.
The Islamist groups had formed an alliance with Tuareg separatists early in 2012 to capture territory from the government in the wake of a coup.
Whirlpool disclosed a sales and distribution alliance with Chinese retailer Suning in an effort by the world's largest maker of home appliances to increase its small share of the market in China.
The old Loral acquired Ford's satellite unit in 1990, and Globalstar emerged in its present form through an alliance that Schwartz struck with a few engineering firms and, most importantly, several large wireless providers.
Gary Bauer, an influential religious agitator, this year took up China-bashing for the first time, and made an alliance with his ideological foes in the trade unions to oppose Chinese access to American markets.
During Labour's long and controversy-strewn selection process to choose a mayoral candidate, former transport minister Ms Jackson formed an informal alliance with Mr Livingstone in the face of party leadership and officials' support for Mr Dobson.
Armenia is in an extremely precarious position, but at least its alliance with Russia affords it a modicum of security and stability.
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The party formed an alliance with the Ulster Unionist Party in 2008 and put forward joint candidates in the European and general election.
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Assad shares with others in this informal alliance an abiding antipathy toward the West and its institutions and a common need to find alternative means of financing anti-Western operations in the absence of the sponsorship previously provided by the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact.
It has formed an informal electoral alliance with a secular party in parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
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