Altra has a fair amount of company in business-to-business e-brokerage.

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Everyday there is a good amount of time spent writing e-mail replies in a timely manner.

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To send money, they simply type in an e-mail address and the amount.

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Its self-healing architecture, for example, and the ability to plug in and remove processors while the machine is running, would have obvious uses in e-commerce, where servers must be kept online around the clock and the amount of processing power needed may vary seasonally.

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Bob O'Donnell, vice president of the firm IDG, said he expects the new tablet or slate computer category to result in 3 million to 4 million device sales this year, an amount he said was on par with e-reader sales for 2009.

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Another year of sluggish return on investment (fell in calendar 2011 due to investments in price, e-commerce, etc.) as Wal-Mart places capital into a robust amount of international unit growth and profit dollars into lower prices.

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You construct a number of plans for achieving that life, picking the optimal one, i.e. the one that will get you there in the shortest time, or with the least amount of effort or will produce the most pleasant journey.

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