Cell phones had cameras for at least that long before the traditional photo taking and processing business was seriously threatened.
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Those cost cutting measures have them looking for two things: outside consulting expertise and outsourced technology and business processing.
While the regular IT industry catered to the global needs of cost-effective software and business processing, mobiles served the communication needs of average Indian citizens.
Providers need to get out of the claim processing business altogether and patients should be responsible for filing their claims. technology exists today that allows providers to secure the balance from the patient and provide them what they need to get reimbursed.
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.
There would be some efficiency and cost savings as the government got out of the business of administering the program and processing payments for gasoline blenders for the ethanol they use.
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As the tobacco industry shifted in the 1980s and the business of preliminary tobacco processing began to decline, there were a number of old warehouses around Kentucky that were no longer being used.
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For much less than it would have cost to build new capacity, the acquisition boosts ADMs share of the U.S. soybean processing business from 29% to 31% and gives it its first soybean processing plant on the Mississippi.
Starting in 1993 they began selling off non-core holdings, including a food processing business, an investment bank and a hotel.
Hanson Chief Executive Alan Murray has built the business around both this resource extraction and processing building materials.
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Burns says Xerox now has expertise in a variety of business processing segments, including customer care and call centers, health care, transportation and IT outsourcing.
It is obvious that full incorporation of external data sources is going to be a long-term effort, involving changes to data processing technology, analytics, business relationships, and ways of working.
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Now what was once was a fun computer-science experiment in natural language processing is becoming a real business for IBM and Wellpoint, which is the exclusive reseller of the technology for now.
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That business has collapsed, and jobs at sea and in processing plants with it.
UK-based computer chip designer Imagination Technologies is buying US central processing unit (CPU) architect Mips's business operations and some of its patents.
If we game this out, potential beneficiaries from a rebound in small business retails sales include payment processing firms Mastercard, Visa and American Express.
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While Google can launch online spreadsheet and word processing applications, Microsoft can't respond without damaging its powerful Office software business.
The basis of competition will shift to other aspects of the business, such as customer relationships, claims processing, expense management and distribution.
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In the wireless business, IDT makes pre-processing switches for wireless infrastructure, and it's likely that sales for these products will begin to ramp up in 2008.
American Express says it is uniquely positioned to offer the service thanks to its "closed-loop" business model in which it acts as card issuer, merchant acquirer and payment processing operator.
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Itochu will acquire the global processing operations for canned goods and packaged juices, and the Asian fresh fruits production and sales business.
Infy responded by cutting its head count and shifting some of its strategy to other markets outside of its core, such as business processing.
Cargill, which is privately owned, has been doing business since 1986 in Venezuela, where its operations include oilseed processing, grain and oilseeds trading, animal feed, salt, and financial and risk management.
But on today's estimates only 1.05m suitably qualified people will graduate from college between now and then, so there will be a shortfall of nearly 500, 000, with business-processing the worst affected.
It later applied digital signal processing to automate credit reporting but five years ago sold the business, frustrated by labor problems and consumer antipathy.
The rise in the volume, variety, and velocity of data, the arrival of many new types of analytical tools all across the business intelligence value chain, and the emergence of new forms of computer science dedicated to data processing such as Hadoop, has created a vacuum.
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