That's right, that NCR--the 117-year-old cash register firm where Thomas Watson worked before he went off to run IBM.
In June, the company bought out the second-leading player in the disc-rental kiosk market, the NCR-owned Blockbuster Express kiosks (in which the store chain held an interest).
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Hurd, previously chief executive of NCR (nyse: NCR - news - people ), came to HP in April, four months after HP's board fired Carly Fiorina .
The milestone marks a coming-out party of sorts for the assiduously low-profile Hurd, a largely unsung NCR (nyse: NCR - news - people ) Corp. lifer who joined Hewlett-Packard 23 months ago, after the sudden ouster of star chief executive Carleton S. Fiorina.
Hurd was brought in to put HP on a steady path after the ouster of Carly Fiorina, known for her bold acquisition of rival Compaq and less than steady results, and that's just what the former NCR (nyse: NCR - news - people ) chief has delivered.
The milestone marks a coming-out party of sorts for the assiduously low-profile Hurd, a largely unsung NCR Corp. lifer who joined Hewlett-Packard 23 months ago, after the sudden ouster of star chief executive Carleton S. Fiorina.
NCR, the second-largest acquisition in the computer industry, which was reversed after years of immense losses.
Of course, Lars Nyberg, the thin, deliberate Swede who is NCR's 46- year-old chief executive, knows you can't live on past glory.
Nyberg's problem is the one described by Peter Drucker in this issue's cover story: In an era when technology is no longer industry- specific, NCR must compete for its business with just about anyone who makes and peddles software.
Recently PayPal announced a tie-up with ATM Company NCR, which will expand its presence to restaurants and gas stations.
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The software Travelocity bought to perform this marketing trick was from neither Oracle, IBM nor Microsoft but from the little-known Teradata division of NCR .
Tie-ups with Discover Financial Services, NCR, PayPal Here and increasing usage of mobile devices for browsing the internet are factors which lead us to expect a similar growth in 2013.
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Since NCR's cash registers were of an unusually high quality--and thus lasted essentially forever--there had sprung into existence a lively market for used machines.
The retail self-service market could be a growth driver for NCR.
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As a further step toward becoming provider of services rather than hardware, by next year NCR will use Sun's version of Unix on its higher- priced servers.
For example, Caterpillar decided to move some of their excavator production back to Texas, NCR Corp. returned production of its ATMs, and even Wham-O has elected to make some of their Hula Hoops and Frisbees in the U.S. over China.
For example, when NCR needed to optimize product configurations across their ATM line, they implemented pattern-based analytics solutions to analyze customer-buying patterns.
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"NCR was a broken company, " recalls Lars Nyberg , the company's Swedish-born chief executive.
According to NCR, the payment details are encrypted and the transaction is securely processed by a cloud-based system.
As Jacobson points out, the mobile commerce ecosystem includes payment processing network companies such as Mastercard (MA), Visa (V) and American Express (AXP) as well as point-of sale (POS) equipment companies like VeriFone (PAY) and NCR Corp. (NCR), which should help alleviate privacy and security concerns.
As chairman of H-P, Ms. Dunn also helped lead a CEO search that recruited Mark Hurd from NCR Corp.
Finn is not alone in complaining about NCR, which has also called for the church to reverse its teaching on women's ordination and supported re-examining the church's approaches to contraception and sexuality.
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