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Finally, it helps that books are quasi commodities -- there's no need to try them on before you buy -- and that they're small-ticket, impulse items that are easy to ship.
FORBES: Does Amazon.com really matter?
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The fiscal cliff crisis is playing havoc with the stock market, sparking big sell-offs and occasional buy-ups as investors try to follow the progress, or lack thereof, in averting it.
FORBES: Connect
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With free try-before-buy demos, spectating and trailers all with full Web-based parental controls.
ENGADGET: OnLive crosses the pond, lands in the UK September 22nd
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It will also find it harder to differentiate itself as rivals try to reduce their reliance on big buy-outs and expand their geographic reach.
ECONOMIST: The Carlyle Group
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These steps include the decision by the Japanese central bank to double the country's money supply and buy long-term government bonds to try to keep interest rates low.
BBC: Japan's Nikkei falls to six-week low amid growth fears
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That means that Webmasters don't just use links to point audiences to relevant content or goods and services they might buy--they also try to create links to float their site to the top of search results.
FORBES: Magazine Article
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So why would somebody go buy the stock and try to make the take-over fail ?
FORBES: John Bierwirth's Grumman Takeover Defense Led To Pension Litigation
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The last drug company to try and buy a potential blockbuster from a biotechnology company was Bristol-Myers Squibb (nyse: BMY - news - people ).
FORBES: How Will Pharmacia Spend Its New Money?
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Indeed, online retailers face threats on all sides--from the hackers who try to steal those numbers to the fraudsters who buy and resell merchandise with "hot" credit cards.
FORBES: Magazine Article
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Try before you buy - qualities like the shutter lag, LCD screen quality, general handling and button placement etc can only be determined by trying the camera out in a shop.
BBC: Tips for picking the right camera
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So if an organization decided to buy even more disk space to try and increase their performance, they actually end up over-purchasing and under-utilizing all of their storage capacity for miniscule gains.
FORBES: Rebuttal: Yes, Solid-State Drives Will Replace Many Hard Drives