Transaction Processing is one the major revenue source for MasterCard.

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InsideView uses an aggregation of open source and proprietary technology for search and natural language processing to track social media related to the sales process.

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EBay also adopted new tools for big-data processing, such as the open-source software framework Hadoop and a system called Mobius that was developed in its labs.

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Federal investigators last month identified a Georgia peanut processing plant operated by Peanut Corp. as the source of the salmonella outbreak.

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Having a commercial bank would boost Morgan Stanley's efforts to use its balance sheet to attract more investment banking business, bring it a cheap source of deposit gathering and also bring it a fund-processing business.

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In the future, we hope that a global army of open-source code developers, students and other experts in digital signal processing, as well as citizen scientists willing to lend their intelligence to our exploration, will have access to the same technology and join our quest.

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Those included stored memory (the ability to hold both a stored program and data), conditional control transfer, which allowed the computer to stop and be resumed, and the central processing unit, which allowed all computer functions to be coordinated through one source.

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