The niche has grown splendidly over the past decade, as chip makers have outsourced what was fast becoming a specialised and capital-intensive activity.

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Financing for the capital-intensive activity of opening hundreds of thousands of square feet of retail space comes from Gill, along with bank loans.

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In the digital economy, regular and systematic monitoring of user activity allows companies to make intensive use of data in all sorts of ways.

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However, both are now seriously threatened by deforestation and invasive practices, including intensive mining and logging, extensive livestock activity, water pollution, degradation of headwaters, unregulated processes of urban settlement, construction of roads, waterways and dams, drainage and diversion of rivers, burning of forests and illegal fishing and trade in wildlife.

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In high income countries, physical activity dwindles as people use more technology and are less engaged in labour-intensive work.

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Inspiring startups or global corporations disrupt entire industries with their intensive use of IT, innovative business models, iterative design, and a powerful leveraging of data originated by user activity.

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