Most go for the "try and buy" model, distributing their games through portals, such as RealArcade and Big Fish, or sites affiliated with AOL, Yahoo!
The last drug company to try and buy a potential blockbuster from a biotechnology company was Bristol-Myers Squibb (nyse: BMY - news - people ).
Most political economists I speak to believe this has been the logic all along, and brave though it has been for Prime Minister George Papandreou to try and buy time to do a proper structural reform of Greece, the implosion of Spain and Italy has robbed him of that time.
"We're offering consumers a new experience in how they try, buy and experience home security and automation, " said Petersen.
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"They didn't come over here and try to buy Chesapeake, " Mr. McClendon says.
But Andrew thinks investors should take care not to let him pull a Michael Dell and try to buy back the company on the cheap.
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The fundamental point of the piece is that gas prices are endogenous: rises in gas prices can hurt the economy, but improvements in the economy can also raise gas prices, as people take their newfound wealth and try to buy more gas.
She said parents at the school had formed a group to try and save it, and would have been prepared to try and raise money to buy it.
Their shops must focus on those things, such as expensive clothes and gadgets, that customers will want to try before they buy, and for which they will pay extra, such as advice from competent sales assistants.
As you try to buy more and more of a limited good, the price will inherently increase.
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They will also look into what they buy and try to uncover the reasons some people see the practice as risky and others do not.
"I think it is more important to us to run a sharp business rather than try and plant flags everywhere and buy bigger planes, " he says.
If I think its portfolio manager, Mitch Rubin, is smart, I might try to buy into Goldman and short Google to gain a trading edge.
Do you secretly siphon off cash here and there and then go out and buy table saws and patio furniture you try to hide in the basement?
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The family also tells him that they have installed a blanket around the water heater and resisted buying a larger house, and that they try to buy local food that doesn't have to be shipped over long distances.
One recipient, the father of a young child, said he would try to buy a decent home and a car.
It will be interesting to see how this plays out once they start working at Target stores and recommend customers to try Best Buy outlets.
It is wrong to try to buy elections or to give cash in large amounts to individual candidates, and it is wrong to let foreign governments try to buy their way into the process.
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Most likely that hay value is closer to 30 or 35 dollar per bale, so they've got a 10 to 15 dollar per bale shortfall, and they're having to turn around and use that to try to buy more hay.
But the PlayStation 4's streaming technology, a marquee feature of the new device, also will allow customers to try titles before they buy them and quickly begin playing a game after only a small segment of its data has been downloaded.
So why would somebody go buy the stock and try to make the take-over fail ?
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He did try to buy Sun Microsystems in 2009 and IBM has just announced some deals.
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If, on the other hand, you were to buy summer gasoline and try to store it until winter, you might find yourself having problems getting the fuel to ignite, due to the lower vapor pressure.
With free try-before-buy demos, spectating and trailers all with full Web-based parental controls.
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What separates the innovation winners in business is not starting with an idea and then try to find someone who might buy it.
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Although such a move would automatically mean a deduction of 10 points, it would buy the club time to try and finalise a takeover.
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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.
Most of us own more clothing than we know what to do with, so I encourage people to first of all buy less clothing and to try to limit trendy, throwaway purchases to only one or two a season.
Just try it, buy yourself a few bitcoin online and make a payment using them.
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