"We aim to provide a complete offering, " says Craig Pepples, Global Sources' chief operating officer.
Global Sources is doing all it can to make sure it is one of them.
Now called Global Sources, it still publishes magazines -- in fact, it runs more than a dozen.
In the works are strategic partnerships that company officials hope will help make Global Sources a full-service e-commerce provider.
Global Sources stores the software applications on its own computer servers, which users access on an as-needed basis through the Internet.
Global Sources hopes to confer those benefits on smaller customers as well.
Sweeney reckons Global Sources' U.S. listing will give them an edge, because they will be able to more easily raise capital from U.S. investors.
Staying on top means Global Sources will need to continue to expand its line of value-added services, which competitors will have a hard time matching.
Global Sources officials claim they operate one of the biggest e-commerce client bases in the world -- a business community of 192, 000 buyers and 80, 000 suppliers.
After scrubbing a back-door listing on Nasdaq scheduled for April 14 -- the day the exchange recorded its highest point drop ever -- Global Sources is going ahead with plans to go public.
Specialized "vertical" portals -- those that trade only in certain commodities or components -- also stand a chance of carving a niche for themselves among broad-based "horizontal" portals such as Global Sources, says Sweeney.
"The job we do today is very similar to what we did 29 years ago, which is to be a matchmaker between buyers and sellers around the world, " says Paul Mottram, Global Sources vice president of marketing.
"There are so many small businesses in Asia that are professional in dealing with buyers but can't afford the software necessary to link up with the networks of large buyers overseas, " says Douwe Cramer, president of Global Sources' e-commerce division.
China and India -- Will remain the predominant sources of global energy demand growth.
Finally, three major available global surface temperature record sources report a steady-to-cooling trend since 2001.
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This gets us one step closer to a global picture of carbon sources and sinks.
Middle East and Russia -- Will remain the predominant sources of global energy supply, with all the political clout that gives them, and the attendant risk of political disruption.
Financial stocks were also in focus after sources said global regulators would give banks a grace period before forcing them to implement stricter capital rules, easing concerns they might need to issue stock in the near future.
Dr Venter maintains that artificial life forms could produce solutions to global problems such as green sources of fuel and climate change.
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Emerging economies can help strengthen the global recovery by strengthening domestic sources of growth and by allowing more flexibility in their exchange rates.
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Those statements would include disclosures of litigation exposure on a global basis, reserves and sources of reserves to cover existing and highly probably litigation, and governance policy to describe funding mechanisms of member firms to cover litigation against member firms in any part of the world not covered by sufficient insurance coverage or capital.
In fact, what the global taxers euphemistically call "innovative sources of financing" and "solidarity levies to fund development" are already being imposed.
Right now we are chained to dirty and outdated energy sources that contribute to global warming, including oil and coal and to nuclear power, which produces dangerous waste.
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Informed sources told Asiaweek that Gilbert Global Equity decided that Astra and Indonesia were simply too risky.
Power management- Partnerships to provide energy efficient solutions and reduce global demand for non-renewable energy sources will drive future opportunities for the industry.
Desktop and mobile music streaming service Spotify is close to completing a new round of funding from Facebook backers DST Global and Kleiner Perkins, according to sources close to the deal.
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For an hour and a half they spoke about how to solve what Icelandic President Grimsson called, "the most fundamental question of the 21st century": energy and whether there will ever be enough alternative sources of power to satisfy global demand if, and only if, the world manages to shake its addiction to oil and other fossil fuels.
You might want to ask your news sources why they have ignored this global gag rule on free expression.
Sources suggest that people in the global equity derivatives department may have fed inflated estimates of future dividends into the computers.
Hearing more and more legitimate international sources play up the importance of global warming may eventually change attitudes here in the States.
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