First Data, a global leader in electronic commerce and payment processing, is actively recruiting thousands of new merchants in these areas and will soon expand those efforts to deploy more contactless merchant terminals across the country.

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Her report shows that 34% of Brooklyn renters are tech or creative workers, compared with 25% who are creative and tech workers in Manhattan, according to data provided by On-Site.com, a provider of electronic tenant screening and lease-processing services for landlords.

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Software patents are definitely still in and companies may press further into the area of electronic processing of information, such as the so far-unpatentable methods of compressing digital signals.

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The Atlanta-based company provides electronic processing services for payment card, check, and eCommerce transactions.

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About 750, 000 jobs in IT, finance and business services are expected to be outsourced by 2016, and automation is having a similar cumulative toll, particularly at the lower end of the pay scale, where grocery check-out clerks have been replaced by electronic scanners, and over 250, 000 postal workers have already lost their jobs due to automation of mail processing.

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The transition to digital image processing and storage has brought mighty companies such as Kodak to their knees and spawned a great many consumer electronic companies that have created image capture and display devices with features and capabilities that would never have been possible with analog technology.

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