It claims to be reaping tens of millions of dollars in savings by doing procurement through a private online exchange.
In the online exchange, each employee receives 10, 000 virtual dollars to invest in an online portfolio of ideas generated by employees.
As CarMax had done for automobiles and as eBay had done for old furniture in the attic, the online exchange could consolidate the splintered health-insurance market.
Vanguard this year followed up on several investors' requests that it allow them to make telephone and online exchange orders for its 34 index funds--an industry first.
At HCL Technologies, an India-based IT services firm with 88, 000 workers, chief executive Vineet Nayar recently launched an experiment in which he gave a group of 100 employees 1, 000 virtual currency units to use in an online exchange.
Gordon is luring more energy clients with such services as an online exchange where refiners can establish fuel prices in real time, rather than send out a price list once daily, and can verify the credit status of potential customers.
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It and British online ticket exchange Viagogo are now scrambling to organize an enormous refunding process.
For years, software was swapped for free via Internet Relay Chat, an early form of online information exchange.
It is also one of the organization's cyber-adoption sites, where sponsor families participate through Paypal, an online money exchange tool.
The haul, in what is known as bitcoins, was stolen in a raid on the Bitfloor online currency exchange this month.
According to an Interactive Advertising Bureau survey, a third of affluent consumers are willing to share their information online in exchange for a more personalized experience.
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The six defendants deny conspiring with others between December 2002 and September 2004 to defraud online betting exchange Betfair customers and other punters by plotting to fix 27 races.
Amit and his co-founder started Tipalti in the summer of 2010 when the president of InfoLinks, an online advertising exchange, told them that mass payments were a pain that needed a solution.
Directors Desk is a Web application which allows members of Nasdaq to share documents, conduct online meetings and exchange information.
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Microsoft itself has launched Office 365, a cloud version of the Office suite, as well as hosted services like Exchange Online, Sharepoint Online and Lync Online.
The goal was to develop a secure, online auto parts exchange that would make it easier and less costly for carmakers to manage their complex supply chains.
Betfair, an online-betting exchange based in London, has been called the eBay of sports betting (see article), and the vast majority of the websites that allow people to play poker and other games of chance or skill for real money are based in Europe.
Way back in 1980, two graduate students from Duke University brought us Usenet, essentially the first online forum for information exchange.
And the firm recently invested in an online energy-contracts exchange and set up a site to hawk its portfolio of commercial real estate.
The two companies said their partnership will help them grow their respective businesses and that they will "cooperate in the areas of user account connectivity, data exchange, online payment and online marketing, among other things".
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This would allow even the tiniest Hong Kong broker to offer its clients online trading on the Exchange's site, which will simply check with the brokers to confirm the client's account balance and credit-standing before executing the order.
This is an online forum for landowners who exchange histories, lease offers, and concerns.
Chris Capossela, who oversees this shift at Microsoft, expects half of the mailboxes managed by Exchange to be online.
Given the transparency and speed of information exchange created by online media, this sentiment isn't going to change anytime soon, if at all.
The name originally stood for Magic: The Gathering Exchange, an online site designed to trade cards used in playing the card game popular with the younger set.
The movement by states to partner with the federal government to create an online marketplace known as an exchange comes as a deadline approaches Friday (Feb. 15).
Take Excite for example: In April 1998, Excite acquired Throw (Click here to read why Excite acquired Throw) for 330, 000 shares, and Classifieds2000, a provider of online classified ads, in exchange for 1.73 million shares.
White's personal information, including his Social Security number, cellphone number and address, was published online just moments after the exchange, in which he defended his company's support of the controversial -- and now-shelved -- Stop Online Piracy Act.
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