BNET Business Dictionary

Business Definition for: Signature

  • the name, position, and full contact details of the sender of an e-mail, added to the end of a business message. Some e-mail programs enable users to automatically add a signature to all sent messages.

Wiktionary Definition for: Signature

  • A person's autograph name.
  • The act of signing one's name.
  • medicine That part of a doctor's prescription containing directions for the patient.
  • music Signs on the stave indicating key and tempo
  • printing A group of four (or a multiple of four) pages printed such that, when folded, become a section of a book
  • computing A pattern used for matching the identity of a virus, or of types of behaviour.
  • cryptography Data attached to a message that guarantees that the message originated from its claimed source.
  • #distinctive, characteristic indicative of identity

Additional Resources

How to Scan Your Signature
How to Scan Your SignatureSecurity??Anyone that has access to your computer to even have a chance to find the sig file probably has access to a signed document that they could copy easily. Security is an illusion. Secure passwords are the best bet for information safety and even then .......RE:...
Tags: Secure Password
Discussion threads 2007-10-26
What Should Your Email Signature Look Like?
What Should Your Email Signature Look Like?Adjust your signature block before leaving the emailI think the signature block gives you one final chance to leave a lasting impression, but one signature block for all emails does not cut mustard. The signature should fit the email. Ending salutation: personalise, Name: use...
Tags: e-mail, website link
Discussion threads 2007-08-16
Signature-ONCOR starts a commercial mortgage division.(Signature Capital)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
Signature Associates-ONCOR International in Southfield has started a commercial mortgage banking division. Steven Gordon, president of Signature, said the division is a way to offer more financing alternatives. The company already handles brokerage, property management and investment sales. The new entity...
Tags: Bei Associates Inc.
Research articles 2000-08-07
How to Scan Your Signature
It may sound crazy, but there are plenty of reasons to scan your signature and turn it into an image file. Chief among them is convenience: When you receive an electronic document (Word file, PDF, etc.) that requires your signature, it's a lot quicker and easier to paste in the scanned...
Tags: Rick Broida
Blog posts 2007-10-26
Latin Percussion Accents Eddie Montalvo Signature Congas & Bongos
LP522X-EM LP Eddie Montalvo Signature 11" Quinto LP559X-EM LP Eddie Montalvo Signature 113/4" Conga LP552X-EM LP Eddie Montalvo Signature 121/2 " Tumba LP201AX-2EM LP Eddie Montalvo Signature Bongos LP honors veteran Eddie Montalvo, one of the legendary Latin percussionists of our times, with his own LP...
Tags: Latin Percussion Inc.
Research articles 2007-06-01
Digitize Your Signature
One of the quaintest relics of the analog age is the idea that a signature is worth more than the paper it's on. It's not—forgers have been taking advantage of dupes well before John Hancock signed the Declaration of Independence. Nonetheless, a major tenet of business is that any agreement...
Tags: Documents, Time-Savers, David Goldenberg
Blog posts 2007-06-12
Contract Signature Management: Streamlining the "Last Mile" of the Sales Process
If managing the contract signature process is a bottleneck in the last mile of your sales process, an electronic signature application may be right for you. It can help your company close deals faster -- and give your customers a positive experience in the process. This...
Tags: Last Mile, Sales Process, EchoSign, Sales Strategy, Sales
White papers 2008-03-01
Consumer Spending on Visa Signature Surpasses $100 Billion For Past 12 Months; Substantial Gains in Average Ticket Size and Transactions Highlight Value of Visa Signature's ''Rewards-Plus'' Offerings for New Affluent Segment
SAN FRANCISCO -- Visa USA today announced that, for the first time, consumer spending on Visa Signature cards in the United States surpassed $100 billion over a 12 month period. E[acute accent]From April 1, 2004 through March 31, 2005, consumers made $101.6 billion in purchases with their Visa Signature cards....
Tags: Visa Inc.
Research articles 2005-05-10
License in bath scales. (Sunbeam Corp. licenses Borg, Counselor brand names to Signature Brands Inc.)(Brief Article)
Sunbeam Corp. has signed a three-year licensing agreement allowing Signature Brands Inc. to use the Counselor and Borg brand names on bath scales, effec- tive Sept. 1. Signature Brands, based in Cleveland, manufactures and markets the Health-o-meter brSunbeam Corp. has signed a three-year licensing agreement allowing ...
Tags: brand, brand name, Sunbeam Corp.
Research articles 1997-06-23
GE TO PUT ITS OWN MARK ON WARD'S UNIT: MARKETING FIRM SIGNATURE GETS SET FOR OVERHAUL.
Montgomery Ward & Co.'s direct-marketing division, Signature Group, got the cold call it's been hoping to receive for months when GE Capital Services agreed to purchase the unit. For Signature, the nation's second-largest direct marketer of li Montgomery Ward & Co.'s direct-marketing division,...
Tags: General Electric Co., marketing
Research articles 1999-03-15
Agilent Technologies, Signature Genomic Laboratories Announce Long-Term Supply Agreement for Oligo Microarrays
SANTA CLARA, Calif. & SPOKANE, Wash. -- Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:A) and Signature Genomic Laboratories LLC Signature today announced they have signed a long-term supply agreement in which Agilent will supply custom oligonucleotide microarrays to Signature and its customers based on the Signature-designed SignatureChip Oligo Solution SignatureChipOS. Terms of the...
Tags: Agilent Technologies Inc.
Research articles 2008-05-15
Signature Genomic Laboratories Signs Long-Term Supply Agreement with Agilent Technologies for Oligo Microarrays
SPOKANE, Wash. & SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Signature Genomic Laboratories, LLC Signature and Agilent Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: A), today announced they have signed a long-term supply agreement in which Agilent will supply custom oligonucleotide microarrays based on the Signature-designed SignatureChip Oligo SolutionTM (SignatureChipOSTM) to Signature and its customers.
Tags: Agilent Technologies Inc.
Research articles 2008-05-15
ISRAEL: SIGNATURE BANK LAUNCHES 6 BRANCHES IN NEW YORK.(Brief Article)
According to Israel News (May 1, 2001), Signature Bank from the Bank Hapoalim Group launched its operations yesterday, opening six branches in New York. Signature is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bank Hapoalim that was established with the intention o According to Israel News (May 1, 2001),...
Research articles 2001-05-02
Clairvest to Sell Signature Security to Australian Private Equity Firm.
TORONTO, ONTARIO, Jan 11, 2006 CCNMatthews via COMTEX -- Clairvest Group Inc. (TSX:CVG) today announced that it has entered into agreements to sell its interest in Signature Security Group Holdings Pty Limited ("Signature") as part of a sale of 100% of Signature to Allco Equity Partners,...
Tags: Clairvest Group Inc.
Research articles 2006-01-11
Clairvest to Sell Signature Security to Australian Private Equity Firm
TORONTO -- Clairvest Group Inc. (TSX:CVG) today announced that it has entered into agreements to sell its interest in Signature Security Group Holdings Pty Limited ("Signature") as part of a sale of 100% of Signature to Allco Equity Partners, a leading Australian private equity firm. Completion of...
Tags: Clairvest Group Inc.
Research articles 2006-01-11
Linda Jones Enterprises Utilizes Signature Mark
IRVINE, Calif.--Linda Jones Clough recently announced that her company has approved and implemented the use of an original signature mark on all art that would formerly have been hand-signed by her father, legendary animation director and creator, Chuck Jones. The SigTech signature equipment, manufactured by Automated Signature Technology of...
Tags: Jones Enterprises Inc.
Research articles 2001-06-01
Microsoft puts its 'signature' on PCs
The "Microsoft Signature" PCs that are being sold at Microsoft's retail and online stores contain a bunch of extra Windows Live software, but also feature something rarely found on a PC--a clean desktop.(Credit: Microsoft)Although Microsoft isn't making its own PCs, the software maker is taking an active role in customizing...
Tags: Microsoft Corp., PC
News items 2009-10-29
What Should Your Email Signature Look Like?
Your email signature, that bit of text that's automatically added at the end of all of your messages, says a lot about you. If you're a minimalist, you probably don't have one, which means that you're assuming that everyone you write to knows who you are, what you do, and...
Tags: David Goldenberg, e-mail
Blog posts 2007-08-16
Signature Bank Announces Proposed Public Offering
NEW YORK -- Signature Bank (Nasdaq: SBNY), a New York-based full-service commercial bank, announced today that it expects to commence a public offering of 4,400,000 shares of its common stock. In the offering, Signature will offer 2,200,000 shares of common stock and Hapoalim U.S.A. Holding Company, Inc., its principal stockholder,...
Tags: common stock
Research articles 2004-09-08
Signature pairs with Yahoo! Photos
Signature Wines, Hayward, Calif. producer of private label wines, offers users of Yahoo! Photos a way to create personalized labels for California wines by uploading their own photos and using Signature's label design templates on two-bottle sets of wine from Signature winery customers. To see it, visit photos. yahoo.com and...
Tags: photograph, wine, Yahoo! Inc.
Research articles 2007-02-01