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INDIANAPOLIS, June 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Digonex, a leader in pricing technology, today announced that the Derby County Football Club (DCFC) of the npower Championship League will be utilizing its demand based pricing services via a partnership with Tickets.com to price single match tickets for the 2012/13 season. DCFC will utilize Digonex's Sports and Entertainment Analytical Ticketing System (SEATS(TM)), a robust and proven fan-driven pricing system for event ticketing that...
SCIP summits are excellent ways to update CI skills and knowledge, while networking with peers, colleagues and gurus from all over the world. Williston, VT (PRWEB) June 05, 2012 SCIP (Strategic and Competitive Intelligence Professionals) summits are excellent ways to update CI skills and knowledge while networking with peers, colleagues and gurus from all over the world. It is a vital event for competitive and strategic planning professionals. The conference sessions are highly...
CHARLOTTE, N.C., June 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- WHAT: The Business Journals invites you to vote for the Social Madness champion, presented by Capital One Spark Business. Social Madness is a one-of-a kind social media competition highlighting companies of all sizes with the best social media strategies in a tournament style challenge. Open to small, medium and large companies, the challenge will measure the growth of a company's social...
New Perspective Shows that Prohibitions Against Usage-Based Pricing Forces Consumers to Pay for Services they Do Not Use WASHINGTON, May 23, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In a new PERSPECTIVE released today, Phoenix Center Chief Economist Dr. George Ford reviews arguments that broadband providers may be anticompetitively imposing usage-based pricing to protect their profits from "core" services (e.g., voice, video, texting) against the proliferation of "over the top" services. Some...
We've said farewell to Friendster. Netscape Navigator is nevermore. As an Internet service provider, AOL is AWOL. What happened to these companies that once ruled their individual markets? According to two University of Alberta researchers, their market dominance made them vulnerable. In a research paper recently published in MIT Sloan Management Review, University of Alberta marketing professors Kyle Murray and Gerald Häubl posit that it may only take an upstart competitor to make the...
ARLINGTON, Va., May 15, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Bloomberg BNA and Baker & McKenzie today announced further details regarding their Transfer Pricing Conference and Primer, to be held at the Cosmos Club, Washington, D.C., June 6-7, 2012. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120110/DC33627LOGO ) IRS Transfer Pricing Director Samuel Maruca ("2011 Accomplishments and Priorities for the Future") and IRS Deputy Commissioner Michael Danilack (topic tbd) will both...
ATLANTA, May 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Servigistics, the world's leading enterprise software solution provider for Service Lifecycle Management (SLM), announced today that Doosan Infracore, one of the world's largest construction equipment manufacturers, has selected Servigistics Service Parts Pricing to optimize and manage pricing globally. Part of Korea's Doosan Corporation, Doosan Infracore manufactures a wide selection of construction equipment, attachments, machine tools and...
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., April 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- PriceAdvantage, a division of Skyline Products, announced today that CEFCO Convenience Stores has expanded its partnership chain wide with the addition of the recently acquired Taylor Food Mart stores. The new sites were acquired in January of this year, all of which are now fully implemented with PriceAdvantage, a fuel price management solution. "As we continue to grow, it's imperative that our fuel pricing tool handle the...
SAN FRANCISCO, April 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- CBS Interactive today announced a major expansion into the fast-growing categories of live gaming and eSports through exclusive partnerships with TwitchTV and Major League Gaming (MLG). By combining the world's biggest live video gaming community with the most popular eSports league, and its flagship gaming property, GameSpot.com, CBS Interactive Games now serves more than 3 billion minutes of live gaming and eSports content monthly,...
FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J., April 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE:BDX), a leading global medical technology company, announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to sell its BD Biosciences - Discovery Labware unit, excluding its Advanced Bioprocessing platform, to Corning Incorporated (NYSE:GLW), the world leader in specialty glass and ceramics. The transaction will be a cash sale for approximately $730 million, subject to post-closing...
