1.   The company collects information about consumer trends.

2.   And so the federal government sued to try to stop the bankrupt e-tailer Toysmart.com from selling customer data that the company collected online.

3.   At the time, monetary regulations in the Soviet Union allowed companies to collect revenues in hard currency only in very limited cases, including some restaurants.

4.   Both companies collect information on consumer spending habits, demographics and susceptibility to various marketing techniques and incorporate them into computer databases.

5.   -- Some private companies collect and charge for access to information that taxpayers paid to create.

6.   A spokeswoman for NCP said the company handled collect and phone card charges for calls placed from pay phones.

7.   But an Internet company may now collect payments on only a small fraction of its space.

8.   But the company had already collected most of the payment from Enron.

9.   Companies collect and buy information wherever they can get it.

10.   Companies like Zero-Knowledge Systems, SafeWeb and others initially offered products that helped people surf anonymously or manage the information companies could collect about them online.