One company flashing red this year is Affiliated Computer Services, the nation's fourth-largest tech outsourcing company.

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Such work is also the fastest-growing line of business for Affiliated Computer Services, based in Dallas, Texas.

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Toyota, Lexmark International, Hewlett-Packard, UPS, Affiliated Computer Services and Amazon employ thousands of workers in the metropolitan area.

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In 2009 Xerox acquired Affiliated Computer Services, which tilted the business model away from printing and more toward add-on services.

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Some people still think copiers and printers when they think of Xerox, which acquired Affiliated Computer Services earlier this year, but there is only one printer in this campaign so far.

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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the Department of Justice are currently looking into the circumstances surrounding the granting of options within at least 25 public companies, including UnitedHealth Group, Vitesse Semiconductor and Affiliated Computer Services.

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Two Japanese research laboratories -- one affiliated with computer maker Fujitsu and the other with Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) -- announced last month that they had succeeded in sending 1 trillion bits or more of information a second through fiber optic cables.

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Headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, SCEI, along with its affiliated companies, Sony Computer Entertainment America LLC.

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What is being said out there? (And in the back of your mind you are a bit worried about infecting your own computer by going to a somehow contaminated website affiliated with the scam).

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