"It's clever meets sexy, " or, in industry parlance, "the convergence of Super Bowl big time spot meets pop culture, " he says.

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Either way, factories have to take advantage of new capabilities enabled by the increasingly rapid convergence of mobility, real-time complex data processing and analytics, cloud based services and machine-to-machine intelligence.

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Adding an additional indicator, such as the moving average convergence divergence (MACD), to time market entry and exit further improves returns.

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What looks less likely is a convergence to 5.5% any time soon.

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While online advertising growth continues, there are significant benefits of scale in advertising platform economics, in capital costs for search index build-out, and in research and development, making this a time of industry consolidation and convergence.

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He says HP is trying to position itself as convergence or cloud, mobility, real-time analytics, trends changing the industry like never before.

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Others say this is the perfect time for portals to be talking about convergence.

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One major plus is that, for the first time in over a century, there is convergence among the powers.

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In a time of DVDs and dial-up, "convergence" in the space was focused on the ability for consoles to play back movies rented at Blockbuster.

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What I find encouraging in this report are signs, finally, of a convergence of factors that will enable the new wave of MOOCs to be combined with time-tested methods of competency and prior learning assessments.

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