Is this case of a private equity-owned firm trying to maximise every penny it can make out of its members already paying an expensive (typically almost £100 a year) membership, or a perfectly reasonable charge for delivering a service at the roadside?
Niku aims to collect fees from firms that list their offerings, take a cut of deals that get signed, sell sponsorships of various content and charge for delivering information to subscribers.
Peter Greenberg, the travel editor for "Today" on NBC, stopped staying at one hotel that charged $5 for delivering FedEx packages to him.
It also froze the fees local distribution companies charge customers for delivering power from producers to them, reversing an earlier decision to allow them to rise gradually.
In China midwives charge more for delivering a son than a daughter.Chasing puppy-dogs' tailsThe unusual thing about son preference is that it rises sharply at second and later births (see chart 2).
The warning was made in a formal submission to the industry regulator, Postcomm, which is proposing that the Royal Mail should charge 11.5p for delivering letters on behalf of other firms.
It could therefore charge more for delivering the letters and parcels commercial competitors hand on, usually because they are in remoter parts of the country.
Kia's strategy is to load up its low-priced models with options that others charge extra for, delivering more car per car.
Although this cost-per-transaction model is more expensive (after all, sites should charge more for delivering actual sales than mere clicks), it provides a clear-cut case for or against a particular advertising strategy.
As Raghuram told me, the company's overall business plan is to charge its customers for delivering open source frameworks as a service.
The legal dispute involves the issue of whether MWD is charging too much for delivering that water.
