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Company "Federations" to Share Data

Reprinted by permission. Article reproduced from the March 12 issue of BusinessWeek by special permission, copyright © 2009 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

The next step, beyond corporate alliances and employee swapping, may be collaboration on infotech systems.

Companies have long formed alliances and joint ventures. Recently, they've come together to swap employees, a practice Google (GOOG) and Procter & Gamble (PG) have experimented with to share expertise.  Read more »