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Of course, questions over potential conflicts of interest will continue to swirl around any financial service firm that has more than one line of business.
FORBES: Private Equity Turns its Eyes towards Underwriting Fees
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This week there was talk of a tie-up between Google and Salesforce.com, a firm that offers business software as an online service and thus also competes with Microsoft.
ECONOMIST: Microsoft
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Netscape cofounder Marc Andreessen started a data-center management firm called Loudcloud in 1999, later selling the service business to concentrate on automation software.
FORBES: Magazine Article
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But Gaurav Mishra, chief executive of 2020 Social, a Delhi business strategy firm, is skeptical about expanding the service.
FORBES: Magazine Article
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These data can then be used to improve a firm's service, for example by relieving people of the tedious business of having to fill in a home-loan application.
ECONOMIST: Always-on people
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But the 3.7 million customers of the firm's high-speed access business will undoubtedly continue to receive service.
FORBES: Lights Out For Excite@Home?
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There is a free service on the Web called Sellability Score that helps business owners estimate the attractiveness of their firm.
FORBES: Interesting Free Service Helps Business Owners Determine Their Company's Sellability
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His firm, a marketing consultancy for professional service providers, released the results of a survey of 200 business-book authors.
FORBES: Why Writing a Book Is Good Business
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The firm's low prices, slick marketing and international-standard service have already pushed some neighbourhood stores out of business.
ECONOMIST: Cairene shoppers�� intifada