The pitch behind Trefis is that most financial Web sites churn out a bunch of numbers without really giving people a solid means of studying the underlying fundamentals of a business.
The more people who get involved in them, the more they see that auctions are not fire sales, but solid means of moving product quickly at prices that are really very, very competitive.
Yes, I'll define what "solid" means in a bit.
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This might sound like Africa's answer to Foursquare - but unlike the smartphone-based location service this works ultimately as a loyalty programme, a subscription service that gives the app's creators a solid means of making money.
WebFinger is a protocol being worked on by Fitzpatrick to allow you to attach information to your email address (in this case, you Gmail address), so it can be used as a solid means of identification.
And let's face it, it might be nice for parents to (theoretically) be able to get a hold of their kids easily and for kids to have a solid means of communication in an emergency.
Clinton acknowledged, however, that there really aren't solid means to challenge the results. .
The activity of cellulase measured at 1.0 units/mg solid means that one unit of cellulase liberates 1.0 μmol of glucose from cellulose in 1 h at pH 5.0.
