Immigrants and their descendants helped pioneer new industries and fuel our Information Age, from Google to the iPhone.
Key benefits for their sponsoring organizations include generating ideas and information that fuel business innovation and customer satisfaction.
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Then, you'll have access to realtime traffic information, fuel rates at local gas stations, along with email, text messages and other data feeds, including news and sports scores.
Information is the fuel for business innovation and these new data sources are simultaneously disrupting every industry and creating new opportunities.
For what gets included in US fossil fuel subsidies, Warren Myer has information here.
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The system is capable of integrating real-time information, such as fuel prices, parking, traffic, tracking, weather forecasts and images from traffic cameras.
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In New York foreign investors mainly help to fuel the finance, insurance and information sectors, according to a new report by the Partnership for New York City, a business group.
Designed to help drivers get the most from C-MAX, information such as instantaneous fuel economy can be displayed on one of two 4.2-inch LCD screens, helping drivers more closely monitor how their driving behavior affects the vehicle's efficiency.
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Play music and you'll get full album art on display in the center stack, but you'll also get a smaller version right up on the driver's display behind the wheel, where it'll sit next to more important information like speed and fuel level.
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And, through innovative, accessible platforms like data.gov, the government is unleashing more information than ever before to fuel innovation and entrepreneurship.
And I wonder sometimes whether information-heavy sites like Facebook fuel this.
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Information is arguably the most important fuel businesses run on.
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Ultimately, businesses that adapt to the volatility of fuel prices and take advantage of the fast flow of market information are able to gain an advantage.
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On Thursday, an estimated 28% of New York metro area gas stations were not pumping fuel (or could not be contacted), according to the Energy Information Administration.
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The first five missions include creating common-sense tools for public participation, liberating government data to fuel job growth, giving everyone secure access to their own health information, streamlining the government contracting process for high-growth startups, and getting more bang for our foreign aid buck.
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Irritated by the waffle that often surrounds discussions of energy and climate change, Mr MacKay, a physicist at Cambridge University, has chosen to illustrate the challenge of breaking our fossil-fuel addiction armed only with the laws of physics, reams of publicly available information and the back of an envelope.
According to Mossman, one of the main problems in the wholesale fuel industry is the lack of transparency, which creates imperfect markets because of hugely asymmetrical information.
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The information ministry said many of the dead and injured were villagers trying to collect spilled fuel.
Existing literature provides information on health- and work-related costs, but with the exception of fuel costs, no published academic research offers insight into consumer-related costs, such as clothing, air travel, automobile size or furniture.
Google started this binge on maps and "mash-ups"--loading simple maps with extra information--last June, and Yahoo and Microsoft's MSN have recently helped fuel it with features of their own.
In a ruling that could fuel debate about online privacy, a federal judge in Seattle has held that IP addresses are not personal information.
And as we looked at a lot of the available information, we saw greater challenges, I think, with providing cooling to some of the spent fuel pools that had initially not been as much of an issue.
The report, conducted at the request of Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas), the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, gives fuel to critics who say the plaintiff lawyers who largely oversee the operation of these trusts prevent them from sharing information about how much their clients have been paid.
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