However, Bitcoin does have a substantial underlying economy with a growing number of merchants participating; BitPay alone has over four thousand merchants using their payment processing system, and many more
use competing services or manage their own sales platforms.
But they might mess it up, especially if they make it hard to load music in the normal way, if Google Market isn't available or if they otherwise make it difficult to
use competing services.
Taking a closer look at the pre-existing Twitch Terms and Conditions tells us there was already a notice in place preventing users from
using competing services to livestream gameplay.
Not exact matches
Apple's Core ML toolkit could already be
used to connect with
competing cloud - based machine learning
services from Google (goog), Amazon (amzn), and Microsoft (msft).
Tim Cadogan, CEO of OpenX, a global leader in ad - tech that
uses a monetization platform to deliver the highest revenue across all digital outlets, suggests looking for ways to enhance the products and
services of other companies rather than
compete with them.
Although many cloud providers, like Google and Microsoft (msft), would clearly love for companies to only
use their own cloud
services, they have been marketing their respective cloud
services as being compatible with other
competing services so they can win customers who fear being locked into a specific vendor's technology.
Writer Tom Foster, in «Reprogramming Retail,» depicts what is being called a «post-Amazon world,» in which scrappy, inventive retailers
use quality, high - touch
service and an appeal to customers» hearts to
compete with the online giant's massive economies of scale.
Cross contends that Facebook's chat
service is easier to
use than
competing services because of its similarity to Facebook Messenger, which he said is
used by 1.3 billion people monthly to communicated with each other.
The intention of licensing is to preserve professional standards but it can also be
used, under the guise of maintaining those standards, to prevent persons from offering
competing services at lower prices.
There's a lesson there: In 2016, according to a Gartner survey, 89 percent of companies expect to
compete using customer
service models — up from 36 percent in 2010.
(Reuters)- McDonald's Corp said on Wednesday it plans to cut the number of items on its U.S. menus and
use fewer ingredients in food as it moves to speed up
service, bolster sales and offer consumers personalized options to
compete better with Subway and Chipotle Mexican Grill.
What has not yet been reported is that AngelList, a
competing service used by early stage companies to receive introductions to investors and take some online investment, received its own no - action letter just two days later on March 28th (embedded below).
Products sold through FBA are eligible for
service through Amazon Prime — namely, free two - day shipping and / or free regular shipping, depending on the order.336 Since many merchants selling on Amazon are
competing with Amazon's own retail operation and its Amazon Prime
service,
using FBA offers sellers the opportunity to
compete at less of a disadvantage.
He's donated $ 1 million to help launch a public bus
service in Douglas County, near Lake Tahoe, and another $ 250,000 to replace a South Lake Tahoe track that was once
used as training ground for runners
competing in the 1968 Olympics.
If a Bell Mobility customer were to
use five gigabytes of video (roughly two high - definition movies, or seven standard - definition movies) through a
competing service like Netflix, it would cost them $ 40 to do so — an 800 per cent markup compared to what it charges for its own
service, Klass wrote on his blog.
The study of how limited resources, goods, and
services are allocated among
competing uses.
By utilizing the
services of companies like Golden Valley Industries, supermarkets could «
compete against some of the independent stores without having to
use labor or increase their chances of liability,» Sullivan says.
In a statement the Department of Health said: «The ban on the
use of numbers charging patients a premium rate to call NHS
services will allow a marketplace to evolve where 084 numbers
compete alongside 01, 02 and 03 numbers, but where patients will pay no more than the cost of a local call.
Dr. Gayle Jones, Director of Health, who applied for the contract through the Department of Health and Human
Services» Regional Office on Women's Health says the funds will be
used to purchase the pedometers for the
competing team members and provide educational programs for the participating organizations.
Prohibited
uses include, without limitation, any of the following actions taken without the express approval of AAAS: sale of access to the Website;
use of the Website or its related
services, for the primary purpose of gaining advertising or subscription revenue; the sale of advertising on the Website; the sale of advertising on any third - party website targeted to the content of specific User Submissions or Science content; and any
use of the Website or its related
services that AAAS finds, in its sole discretion, to
use Science resources or User Submissions with the effect of
competing with or displacing the market for Science, the Website content, or its User Submissions.
Prohibited
uses include, without limitation, any of the following actions taken without the express approval of Science: sale of access to the Website;
use of the Website or its related
services, for the primary purpose of gaining advertising or subscription revenue; the sale of advertising on the Science Website; the sale of advertising on any third - party website targeted to the content of specific user submissions or Science content; and any
use of the Website or its related
services that AAAS finds, in its sole discretion, to
use Science resources or user submissions with the effect of
competing with or displacing the market for Science, Science content, or its user submissions.
«Businesses can
use this to encourage support for their products or
services, or to sabotage other
competing companies by spreading negative opinions through false identities.»
For example, SMEs can
compete technologically, optimizing the
use of ICT resources and making a minimal investment, to scale; while the user experiences how to the immeasurable range of information is now added the possibility of
using specialized tools, updated and new, accessing public and private
services or
using collaborative applications, simply with the aid of a web browser.
OkCupid is free with advertisements but I've never seen an ad for a
competing dating site when
using the
service.
Compete uses a panel, like comScore and Nielsen, but also Internet
service providers» logs.
COMPETE — Dec 28 — Ranking online dating sites purely on visitor traffic is flawed; membership is a prerequisite to
use the
services, and member activity is the foundation of successful matchmaking.
It doesn't make sense to impose onerous regulation on online segments of this market while exempting
competing services that
use other media.
And though Match
used to be the only one in its class, it's now one of thousands of dating
services competing for attention.
This year old
service was launched by eHarmony (see Story) to help them
compete against the more general oriented dating sites which typically younger singles
use.
Providers would
compete for families» dollars, and families would be able to
use their accounts to pay for the widest variety of education - related
services, products, and providers, and to roll over unused funds from year to year.
In instances when smaller organizations or nonprofits can not
compete with large or private sector organizations, many organizations offer unique benefits — such as comprehensive medical insurance plans, flexible schedules, or financial planning
services — to entice employees.44 Alpert Jewish Family and Children's
Service, or AJFCS, a nationally accredited social
services agency in Palm Beach, Florida,
uses innovative benefits to recruit and retain talent — especially workers in the later stages of their careers.
This economic reality explains the interest in several non-traditional powertrains being
used by three
competing package delivery
services.
After receiving valuable counsel from my team of advisors, I decided to have the cover professionally designed and
used a
service called 99Designs.com, where artists
compete on your cover design for a cash award.
A competitor can access Amazon's world - leading physical warehousing and logistics, advertise and sell its
competing goods on Amazon's site,
use Amazon's rich metadata on its own site, and employ Amazon's massive cloud computing power to run a
competing service.
I think that, because self - publishing has gotten easier, because the tools have gotten easier to
use and there are so many more
services available to self - published authors, you can
compete directly with the work that's coming out of these major publishing houses.
Is a
competing cellphone company offering lower prices for the same
services you're
using now?
I might believe that they offer this
service to
compete with other banks for my business, but they actively encourage me to
use it too.
You will also save money
using mortgage
services where more than one lender
competes for your business.
Mixed breed dogs make good therapy dogs; the
service dog organizations that train hearing ear dogs frequently
use mixed breeds; and mixed breeds are now allowed to
compete nationally in the Gaines Classic Obedience trials throughout the country.
Our goal has never been to
compete with family veterinarians; in an ideal world, every pet owner would be ableand willing to
use the
services of family veterinarians in the community, and we strongly encourage that relationship.
If you are
using the forest then please adhere to all Forest
Service NI signage and avoid all operational areas until the felling is
competed.
Using Square's PlayOnline
service, players didn't just
compete in team deathmatch or capture the flag but also cooperated in large boss fights.
(One of the reasons I went with Steam for my DRM - encumbered games, instead of any of the other
competing digital download
services, is that Steam doesn't force publishers to
use DRM.)
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Simon, don't you mean «marginal» rather than «paramount» in terms of
use by the legal profession when compared to the commercial legal publishers
competing services?
The goal is to produce a good survey on how web tools can strengthen client
service, and how lawyers can
use the web to
compete against commoditized
services.
While these practices
compete with each other, they do not have to and are limited in their ability to
compete using different ways of providing legal
services.
Trouble is, the state bars have sometimes
used this power to maintain a monopoly on the delivery of legal
services, by intimidating and threatening paralegals, document preparers and others with useful knowledge to keep them from
competing with lawyers.
While there is a strong focus at the firm on
using technology to streamline its
services and provide better value, joint managing partner Stephan Eilers tells us: «Moving the firm into areas such as information
services that do not generate a client relationship and which offer an isolated legal product is not the space where we should
compete.»
«The goal on this one is to produce a good survey on how web tools can strengthen client
service, and how lawyers can
use the web to
compete against commoditized
services,» Steve says.