And, most recently, its smaller iPad didn't come close to matching items like the Nexus 7 in price.

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Department stores can offer them an advanced style matching system that works across all items the store sells.

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In little more than a decade, the country has become by far the biggest producer in the world of every industrial commodity from steel to glass to cement, and the finished products it exports to other countries are gradually matching and surpassing the sophistication of items produced indigenously in those countries.

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Once items are on the press you can then resize, rotate, and zoom matching your specifications.

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While still at McKinsey, Artun wrote a machine learning algorithm that clustered customers who tended to buy items similar to each other and related that cluster to various sales coverage efforts, which were the items that salespeople seemed to be most comfortable selling together, and built a matching algorithm to match salespeople with customers.

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