This a bigger, more sophisticated industry that requires a lot more capital to get into than it used to.
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The modern and sophisticated industry that containers spawned, with its huge global operators, has shocked and alarmed those ignorant of the new world of the docks--a Dubai company wants to run some American ports!
The market for fake luxury goods is nothing new -- knock-off Louis Vuitton bags, Rolex watches -- but the Italian Ferrari ring is an example of just how sophisticated the industry has become in the last few years.
Though they recognised that South Africa had a relatively sophisticated fast-food industry of its own, with many brands of beef-and chicken-burgers, the idea that such a famous global brand might not be well-known on the southern tip of Africa seemed preposterous.
As a staple of 21st-century warfare, cyberattacks will become increasingly sophisticated, forcing governments and private industry to build ever-stronger firewalls and other defenses, experts said.
In fact, the industry has become big, sophisticated and nasty, and is increasingly run by organised criminals.
That sophisticated visitor is shaping the local hotel industry.
If the bitcoin payment processing industry is indeed headed towards sophisticated, feature-rich deterministic wallets and built-in risk management functionality, the leading processor should have a great advantage in steering the transition.
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Qualcomm, which has a long history of providing technology to cellphone manufacturers, likes to emphasize its experience and expertise in the mobile device industry while Nvidia points to sophisticated technology and engineering that it brought over from its graphics processing unit (GPU) business.
Investors were told in 1998 that the financial industry had become smarter and more sophisticated than its Depression-era predecessors.
And the industry is getting a lot more sophisticated in how it chooses who to bring in to get those seats filled.
China's aviation industry has learnt a lot from making increasingly sophisticated parts for Boeing and Airbus over the past 20 years.
Fourth, high-end customers who want sophisticated phones drive the Japanese market, but the main growth in the wireless industry overall is in emerging markets, which need cheap phones.
The new, duller Fidelity has built a business model bearing a resemblance to that of Vanguard, the industry's number two, but with even cheaper investment options and highly sophisticated, round-the-clock, customer service.
Ultimately, one of the main dynamics of the information age that even sophisticated tasks can be done from anywhere works against the dominion of single hegemonic industry centers like Wall Street, Hollywood and Silicon Valley.
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More importantly, when we raised a new fund (we only work with knowledgeable, sophisticated investors, almost exclusively institutions) we were oversubscribed during a tough time for the venture industry.
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When low-income household members buy PCs, they tend to purchase systems that are more sophisticated than computers with rock-bottom price tags, according to Dave Tremblay, InfoBeads senior industry analyst.
It is also uncertain that the technologies ostensibly to be "flowed-back" to the United States in exchange for the F-16 technical data, etc. will be of comparable value to the U.S. defense industry as will, for example, insights provided to the Japanese into U.S. sophisticated design and manufacturing techniques.
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The probability of the hotel industry entering into recession, which is detected in real-time from HIP with the help of sophisticated statistical techniques, registered 15.3% in September, up from 12.4% reported in August.
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