Alibaba is continuing its expansion into offline retail after the Chinese e-commerce giant bought up more than one-third of one of Chinese most prolific operators of hypermarket stores.
The most prolific operators of automated phone surveys, who can't use their systems to call mobile phones, supplement their landline samples either with live-caller interviews of cell phone users or with internet samples.
Chan, the former head of Zynga's Asia Business Division and a prolific angel investor, describes Operator as "The switchboard for goods and services".
As drones become more prolific, safety is paramount and operations like Skyward will increasingly become more in demand as operators, and providers of operators, look to insure their operations.
They also worked with the state's most prolific Republican fund-raiser, James H. Harless, a coal operator who collected $275,000 for Mr. Bush, five times what Mr. Gore raised in the entire state.
Long before Amazon bought out Whole Foods for $13.7 billion last year, Alibaba was making offline forays by forging partnerships with a department store operator, an electronics retail heavyweight and, more recently, a prolific hypermarket chain.
"We are the world's largest offshore operator and have a portfolio of attractive projects in some of the most prolific basins in the world.
The most prolific of these actors is APT1, which Mandiant says is "a single organisation of operators that has conducted a cyber espionage campaign against a broad range of victims since at least 2006".
Nobody knows how many e-mails are sent, but the Japanese are probably even more prolific than text-crazy Indonesians, who average more than 1,000 messages per month on some operators.
