Is Groupon simply burning through cash to race to a place where there are few competitive advantages for scale?
While the videogame industry remains an attractive, high-growth business, the challenges and risks in the business are escalating, and the need for scale is becoming more pronounced.
At a high level, the Moonshot 1500 is the beginning of the slow death of the vanilla, homogenous server and the rise of specialized servers for specialized workloads for scale-out datacenters.
The hunt for scale and ubiquity is on.
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"Tesco's exit from the US is a reminder for managers of the dangers of going blindly for scale and cost leaders, the wheels of which are difficult to reverse if you need to change course to becoming a retailer known for first-class customer experience, " Prof Bhalla said.
The scale proposed for the Arizona projects would be a step-change in scale for these types of solar-energy projects.
As noted above, the use of genetic engineering techniques for anything that falls within the regulatory definition of a "pesticide"--even when that definition is tortured to claim jurisdiction--triggers case-by-case review, which is not necessary for small-scale field trials for other pesticides, regardless of risk.
Following the shutdown it was planned for full scale production to recommence on 9th August.
What it lacked in functionality it could make up for in scale and brute force.
He argued that employment from whisky was "pretty minimal for that scale of business".
The main exemptions from the mandatory labelling system will be for small-scale traditional producers and for fresh produce that is not pre-packed.
The home is a rare gem, featuring incredibly sized rooms throughout, very high ceilings, and a great flow for large scale entertaining.
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The arts centre in Cardiff Bay aims to provide a new world-class stage for full scale ballet, opera, musical theatre and dance.
We also expect to be announcing groundbreaking plants for commercial scale -- cellulosic and advanced biorefinery plants -- in the next two years.
For a scale comparison, the company says about 9, 000 business analytics consultants have handled over 30, 000 client engagements in the last several years.
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But this cannot account for the scale of the recent rise in the statistical discrepancy because growth in trade has slowed since 2007.
The Highland Clearances of the 18th and 19th centuries saw families cleared from land to make way for large scale farming and sporting estates.
He apologised for the scale of the problems caused by the power cuts and said they would be resolved "in a relatively short period".
Mr Tang's case, however, has gained attention not only for the scale of damages sought, but in having led to a nasty row with neighbouring Malaysia.
Major investment firms have been setting aside billions of dollars for large scale acquisitions in single family housing since the downturn, with activity jumping in 2012 as analysts called a market bottom.
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For large scale financing urban infrastructure which is assuming critical importance in the context of rapid urbanization, conventional fiscal transfers to the urban local bodies or municipals from governments are no longer considered sufficient.
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The fraud he masterminded was remarkable for its scale, longevity and the sophistication of its victims: hedge-fund founders, Swiss banks and movie moguls, as well as charities and small investors, some of whom put in their life savings.
Partly to compensate for the scale of economic upheaval in Wales, Thatcher's government enacted a number of changes that did much - indeed more than any previous administration - to buttress the fortunes and status of the Welsh language.
Occasionally the threat lay in that buzzword of today, globalisation, and its concomitant demand for greater scale: Chrysler merged with Daimler-Benz because, even as number three in the world's largest car market, it was too small to prosper alone.
First, Web innovators, such as Facebook, Google and Yahoo, have developed a massively scalable storage and compute architecture to manage Big Data: Hadoop, which parallelizes large data sets across low-cost commodity hardware for easy scale and dramatically reducing the cost of petabyte environments.
This might make sense for large scale solar farms, since the integration of PV would allow the overall price of power to be lower than CSP alone, while CSP would be able to compensate for the rapid output changes from PV that occur whenever a cloud passes over, as well as producing power at night, or shifting it ot peak afternoon periods.
Apple, for instance, has an enormous potential scale for good.
Mr Brown offered no time scale for moving from pilot projects to full-scale implementation of pet passports, but promised it would occur quickly.
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