In October 2005, Oracle Corporation acquired Innobase OY, the Finnish company that developed the third-party InnoDB storage engine that allows MySQL to provide such functionality as transactions and foreign keys.

While the majority of the games Taito America published were games developed by the Japanese parent company, they did also publish games that they licensed from third-party companies, as well as games that were developed in the U. S. for Taito.

After 3DO's flagship video game console the 3DO Interactive Multiplayer failed in the marketplace, the company exited the hardware business and became a third-party video game developer.

If the IRS determines that a third-party intermediary firm's worker previously treated as self-employed should have been classified as an employee, the IRS assesses substantial back taxes, penalties and interest on that third-party intermediary company, though not directly against the worker or the end client.

These upgrades were surprisingly expensive ($ 200, 000 and $ 400, 000, respectively ) and had long ship date lead times after being ordered by a customer ; consequently, they were never popular with customers, majority of which leased their systems via a third-party leasing company.

Nintendo reserved a large part of NES game revenue for itself by limiting most third-party publishers to only five games per year on its systems ( some companies tried to get around this by creating additional company labels like Konami's Ultra Games label ).

If, for example, a company with its own warehousing facilities decides to employ external transportation, this would be an example of third-party logistics.

Activision and Parker Brothers were the only two third-party companies publishing for the Master System in North America, but both companies withdrew their support in 1989 and neither company had released more than five video game titles for the platform.

Even in videotex networks where third-party companies could post their own content and operate special services like forums, a single company usually owned and operated the underlying communications network, developed and deployed the necessary hardware and software, and billed both content providers and users for access. The exception was the transaction processing videotex system developed in the UK by Michael Aldrich in 1979, which brought teleshopping ( or online shopping as it was later called ) into prominence and was the idea developed later through the Internet.

In November 1996, eBay entered into its first third-party licensing deal, with a company called Electronic Travel Auction to use SmartMarket Technology to sell plane tickets and other travel products.

The rights were later picked up by a third-party company, who re-released it and sold it until around 1983.

As a fabless semiconductor company, VIA conducts research and development of its chipsets in-house, then subcontracts the actual ( silicon ) manufacturing to third-party merchant foundries, such as TSMC.

Land became the first in-house audio programmer and musician at the company, which had mostly outsourced its sound production duties to third-party developer Realtime Associates in the previous few years.

During the same year, they also purchased ADK shortly after it filed for bankruptcy and closed its doors, which was a third-party company that has been heavily associated with SNK since the late 1980s.

In May 2007 Unilever became the first large-scale company to commit to sourcing all its tea in a sustainable manner, employing the Rainforest Alliance, an international environmental NGO, to certify its tea estates in East Africa, as well as third-party suppliers in Africa and other parts of the world.

As a result of deregulation of the telephone system, unbundling of the local loop, and lawsuits by companies wishing to sell third-party equipment to connect to the telephone network, there was a need to delineate the portion of the network which was owned by the customer and the portion owned by the telephone company or the common carrier.

A company called Amalgamated Software of North America ( ASNA ) produced a third-party compiler for the System / 36 in the late 1980s called 400RPG.

Another company called BPS created a third-party pre-processor called RPG II-1 / 2.

* Mortgage Industry Advisory Corporation, a company specializing in third-party mortgage asset pricing services, secondary market hedge advisory solutions, comprehensive mortgage analytical pricing and hedging models and mortgage banking asset / liability solutions.

* Photo of Alan Miller accepting an award for developing the first third-party video game development company at the 2003 GDC ( second photo )

One of these rules was that a third-party company could only publish up to five games per year for the Nintendo Entertainment System in the US.

These stamps had no value individually, but when a customer accumulated a number of them, they could be exchanged with the trading stamp company ( usually a third-party issuer of the stamps ) for premiums, such as toys, personal items, housewares, furniture and appliances.

Merchants would pay a third-party trading stamp company for the stamps, and then would advertise that they gave away trading stamps with purchases.

This caused many issues with incompatibility, where a true IBM-compatible third-party card ( designed for an 8 MHz or 4. 77 MHz bus ) might not work in a higher speed system ( or even worse, would work unreliably ).

This was seen as a backdoor tactic to increase the number of OS / 2 users, in the belief that this would increase sales and demand for third-party applications, and thus strengthen OS / 2's desktop numbers.

In August 2009 the BBC wrote to Ofcom after third-party content owners asked the BBC to undertake measures to ensure that all Freeview HD boxes would include copy protection systems as required by the Digital TV Group's D-Book, which sets technical standards for digital terrestrial television in the UK.

" MacPaint continued to be bundled free with every new Macintosh until the introduction of the Macintosh Plus in 1986, when it was sold separately to assuage concerns from third-party software developers that their products would not be able to compete.

Later third-party tests of HTTP load times would support Apple's claim that Safari 3 was indeed the fastest browser on the Windows platform in terms of initial data loading over the Internet, though it was found to be only negligibly faster than Internet Explorer 7 and Mozilla Firefox when loading static content from local cache.

However in June 2007 Apple announced that the iPhone would support third-party " web 2. 0 applications " running in its web browser that share the look and feel of the iPhone interface.

In simple terms, this is done by measuring the amount of money a third-party would make for doing the same work if it was part of the market.

All other people classified as Palestinian refugees would be settled in their present place of inhabitance, the Palestinian state, or third-party countries.

It was envisioned that OpenDoc would allow smaller, third-party developers to enter the office software market, able to build one good editor instead of having to provide a complete suite.

SNK signed up to become a third-party licensee for Nintendo's Family Computer ( Famicom ) system in 1985 and opened a second branch in the United States, based in Torrance, California and called SNK Home Entertainment that would handle the North American distribution and marketing of the company's products for home consoles.

Apple would swap affected motherboards for users who could prove they had an incompatible serial device ( e. g. a third-party 1200-baud modem which presented problems ; not all did ).

By the mid-1980s, third-party companies have made compatible devices ( based on what would become IBM 5250 standard, today mostly served by terminal emulators ).

As the Republicans would not nominate him, he ran as a third-party Progressive candidate, but the ticket became widely known as the Bull Moose Party.

Through the 2000 election, the concept was known in the US as " vote swapping ", while " vote pairing " originally had a somewhat different meaning — where people of opposing parties would agree to together vote for a third-party candidate instead of for their own candidates.

However, if such people had posed as third-party supporters in swing states, all they could do is trick John Kerry supporters in staunchly Republican states to vote for a third-party candidate — which wouldn't change the outcome of the election ( since George W. Bush would win those states anyway ).

Similarly if such people had posed as John Kerry supporters in staunchly Republican states, all they could do is trick third-party supporters in swing states to vote for John Kerry -- which would have politically hurt George W. Bush, not helped him.

This presented a problem to Apple: the Mac was due to be launched in 1983 ( originally ), but no third-party software would be available for it, nor could users easily write their own.

Predictably, sales of the third-party version would instantly stop, whether or not the new version of dBASE actually included that feature.

One particularly important addition to the lineup of third-party add-ons was the eventual release of dBASE compilers, which would take a dBASE project and compile it and link it into a stand-alone runnable program.

Nickelodeon responded that they would introduce " third-party monitoring " of all manufacturers of products under its brands.