The most recent of all the filings is one for "Nooksellers, " which appears to be for a combination in-store kiosk and online service that would offer personalized recommendations and various social networking tie-ins.

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But the combination of thin grocery-store margins and high e-commerce costs looks more like lose-lose - at least for now.

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Indeed, various companies, including GE, are investing heavily in ways to come up with cost-effective systems to store the wind and solar energy that their wind turbines and solar technologies capture in combination with other means of generating electricity and power.

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Granite uses a combination of virtualization technology and wide area network (WAN) optimization, which makes it possible to store large amounts of data in the hub centers, yet transmit information to multiple offices in a short period of time.

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The combination of smartphones, tablets and connected devices will create a tidal wave of new data for businesses to store and process.

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