Customer service reps can process orders or solve support problems by simply communicating by voice.
First, the problem: payment platforms have to process orders from many more sources than do credit card companies.
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The Smarter Checkout solution also allows the customers to use their mobile devices to process orders, redeem digital coupons, access loyalty points, and pay for purchases at IBM self-service pay counters.
In 1998, Toyota Motor (nyse: TM - news - people ) started developing a new delivery system now being implemented that is meant to drastically reduce the time it takes to process orders and deliver cars to dealers.
It can process more than 1, 000 orders a day, and its workforce has more than doubled.
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Liberal Democrat spokesman Alistair Carmichael said the orders represented a significant moment in the devolution process.
This will also complement our existing process of publishing all final enforcement orders on our website on a monthly basis.
Some activists have been urging Obama to bypass the often messy legislative process and instead focus on executive orders and regulations from the Environmental Protection Agency.
Also convincing investors that the ECB wants to get back into its nascent monetary tightening process was a report showing German factory orders jumped by 2.8% in April.
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Naturally, Goldman is in the process of trying to centralize all equity orders from every part of the firm, including its block trading desk and the division that services high net wealth clients, to increase its market share of all equities traded.
Nike is still in the process of drawing down excess inventory in China, and saw futures orders grow 6%.
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Regulators, citing a pattern of violations, have been slapping Massey with "show cause" orders: They will suspend, even permanently revoke, permits to mine or process or store coal, if the company doesn't show it has mended its ways.
Weak global demand for PC DRAM chips still weighed on Samsung's push for a recovery, although it responded to increased orders for server and mobile DRAM and hastened migration to the 30-nanometer and below process.
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