41.   KLM already has a tightly knit partnership with Northwest Airlines, in which the companies share costs and revenue on trans-Atlantic routes.

42.   Loopholes allow financial companies to share personal consumer data freely with affiliates and, in some cases, outside marketing companies.

43.   Matrix Partners, in Waltham, may hire someone to collect salary and bonus data that its portfolio companies can share.

44.   Moreover, the larger company can share the costs of developing sophisticated new capabilities, like Internet-based marketing and transaction systems.

45.   New York will permit insurance companies to share financial details about a customer unless the customer specifically objects.

46.   NorAm will customize, distribute and market the lottery games in Venezuela, and the two companies will share revenue from the machines.

47.   Now a new phenomenon, the extranet, has emerged as a key factor enabling companies to share information.

48.   Nor was the interest in biotechnology companies limited to Entremed, as many small companies shared in the surge of interest about promising cancer treatments.

49.   Offline, companies can share a name, so long as they are in different markets.

50.   Not all companies are sharing in the bounty.