The three companies scoured the land around looking for Mi'kmaq.

Using artificial intelligence software, the company scours satellite images and aerial photos to find homes and businesses with certain attributes like cracked or damaged roofs and driveways, swimming pools, large empty backyards, et cetera.

Moreover, this would be a boon for management consultancies that can help companies scour the world for chief executives.

Many large companies, hurting in the weak economy, are scouring the industry for low bidders, pitting trucker against trucker in an ever-rougher market.

The company had been scouring the city for a new location for its corporate headquarters, which is currently at Rockefeller Center, in the shadow of the more high-profile operations of its rival, NBC.

It was also a time of frenzied business activity, as many West German companies scoured the East for possible acquisitions.

Many murders had been committed during the night; the companies had scoured the streets singing some doggerel, which one of the bloody wretches, being in poetic vein, had composed, the chorus of which was--, "Our work's well done, We spare none!"

American and British companies are scouring for acquisitions among Germany's vast mittelstand, or middle class, of smaller family-owned industrial companies.

The company, which has several billion dollars sitting in the bank, has been scouring the globe for suitable companies to buy, so far with no results.