In recent years, Thomson has spent more than $2 billion to buy database publishers.
Online advertising finally getting respect, but Web ad firm upset privacy police by buying database marketer Abacus.
In the company I was running in 1999, "software" was a huge budget line item – we had to buy databases, testing suites, libraries, and more.
Oracle has agreed to continue developing Sun's open-source database, acquired when it bought Swedish database maker MySQL last year.
But if you "bought" their database they would send in a team of consultants to help you "install" the database to fit your needs.
Tiziana has already "given back" to the community when it bought the database for €258,000, including all the outstanding debts.
A company that bought the database of the original program hopes to revive it in the fall.
But when she arrived at the F.D.I.C. the staff began raising broader concerns, and the agency bought a database to study the industry's loan performance.
Privacy concerns are increasing because DoubleClick's new Abacus Alliance service, created after DoubleClick bought the database company Abacus Direct last year, has begun combining its online data with information gleaned from consumers' offline purchases from major retailers, catalog companies and publishers.
At Bair's direction, the F.D.I.C. bought a database of subprime loans from a company called Loan Performance in order to study the problem more closely, something that, apparently, no other government regulator had thought to do.
And they asked about Xue Feng, an American geologist sentenced to eight years in prison last July on charges of stealing state secrets after he bought a database on China's oil industry.
