(Does Joe Arpaio know about this?) — Sam Sifton Bloomberg Businessweek: The new malady of Groupon Regret (those who buy too many meal deals and don't know what to do with them all) and the profitable cure: a growing number of resellers that serve as sell-and-swap matchmakers for coupon addicts — for a fee.
In financial services, stock exchanges serve as the gatekeepers, swapping billions of dollars' worth of data, technology and rebates with the wealthiest and most sophisticated players.
After four meetings, they agreed that he would serve as an adviser and swap the assets of his plan (content and contacts) for a then 7% stake.
Online forums and photo hubs like Flickr, Tumblr and Pintrest serve as unofficial clubhouses to swap stories and share information.
The price that European governments pay for credit-default swaps, which serve as insurance against default for their sovereign debt, rose sharply across Europe.
Argentine officials hope the deal they are trying to work out with local banks and pension funds could serve as a model for future swaps.
Particularly here among new immigrants in Southern California, the swap meets serve as a convenient alternative to malls.
Acquirers are paying more, but they are doing so painlessly, since their own shares, which serve as their currency in stock-swap transactions, are as inflated as those of their prey.
In response, central banks in emerging economies bought dollars to stop their own currencies rising too fast.Could Fed swap lines serve as a less costly alternative to rampant reserve accumulation?
Together with its sister instrument LYRA, also onboard PROBA 2, SWAP will serve as a high performance solar monitoring tool to be used in operational space weather forecasting.
