There was also a commitment to shift more and more public services online - "digital by default" - in what the chancellor called a huge culture shift for government.
More recently, online HR services provider Monster Worldwide (NYSE: MWW) also sold its China operations earlier this year as part of a global asset disposal to focus on fixing its core US operations.
The decision could help companies like Netflix and Apple in their negotiations to add more programming to their online services, by undermining the oligopoly of the cable-television and satellite TV networks.
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MyGov, a system that will enable citizens to access government services more easily online.
Fidelity had in recent years snagged market share from Wall Street giants like UBS and Morgan Stanley as investors flocked to more affordable, online-based services during the recession.
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Similarly, there is the potential for advancements in how users access online services at a more basic level.
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Connectivity and online services are much more than just conveniences or entertainment sources.
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The proposal would allow broadband companies to charge companies or consumers more for "additional, differentiated online services, " such as 3D movie streaming or gaming.
It also allows local communities to access public services more quickly and efficiently online.
That's a powerful financial incentive for app developers, digital publishers, and online services to start deploying more Web apps.
Managers looking to plan business processes or add new functionality now have much more choice among the many services coming online.
The company runs two global online services, AOL with more than 20 million members, and CompuServe, with more than 2.2 million members.
Build a portal that puts control in users' hands and then try to sell them ever more overlapping services when they check in online.
Build a portal that puts control in users' hands--and then try to sell them ever more overlapping services when they check in online, extending the E-Trade franchise into a panoply of investment products.
As online feedback expands to cover even more public services, like adult social care, the power of older people will continue to grow.
Also, live sports broadcasts have remained largely immune from a media world that grows more reliant on digital recording devices and online video services that allow viewers to watch their favorite shows when they want to and skip commercials.
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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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Batter contends that M-Go will do more than simply match content available on other online video services.
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European private banks are becoming more performance-driven and are taking their services online.
For consumers, a world without Sec. 230 could mean less site functionality, higher prices for online services if sites need to charge more to comply or insure themselves against increased lawsuits, or simply fewer sites and services in the aggregate.
For companies like Sony, Microsoft and Wal-Mart online movie services are all about giving consumers reasons to buy more hardware.
Most travellers prefer using travel agents to calling every airline themselves or figuring out how to work the flight-booking services on commercial online services, especially since using an agent costs them no more.
Rather than purchasing the tools and manpower needed to run their companies, more small firms are renting, sharing or outsourcing resources, typically through online services, according to Steve King, a partner at Emergent Research, a research and consulting firm for small businesses.
In the following few years, the company developed into a popular social entertainment platform, offering online games, karaoke, music-concert and educational services to more than 400 million Internet subscribers.
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MyUSA (formerly MyGov) has reimagined how citizens can interact with government, developing a prototype of an online system that allows people to more easily find and access the information and services that are right for them from across government.
The consumer shift online that Pichette talked about had more to do with holiday shopping than advanced geolocation services.
The site will offer online networking resources so two or more small firms could potentially package their goods and services to present a stronger bid on any contract.
In fact his book serves a valuable purpose by reminding us that the services we use online are becoming increasingly personalised and that there is more to search results than purely objective page rank.
Disproving previous assumptions that older audiences would continue to utilize traditional services, U.S. online growth in 2009 for most categories was driven by older audiences, resulting in a more even usage distribution across age groups, particularly for services like social networking and online news.
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