Electronic Data Systems ( EDS - news - people ) and other large information technology services suppliers listened to their customers tell them why they liked their proprietary implementation methods, and why they liked having local people with expertise service their accounts.
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Moreover, China's dominance of global manufacturing seems matched by India's arrival as an important provider of information-technology and other services.
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Yahoo said it is shutting down the Summly app, which was downloaded less than one million times, and incorporating its technology into other Yahoo services.
An increase of 5.3% in information technology jobs in March outpaced all other industries, as companies, particularly in the San Francisco Bay Area, continued to expand amid booming demand for social networking, clean technology and other services.
Some of them rely on technology other than NFC, such as offering services that let people pay for purchases by sending text messages or by scanning product bar codes using a phone's QR-code reader.
It foresaw the advantage of excellent mapping technology to sell location based advertising and other services beyong directions to the user.
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Call-centre firms want to add debt collection to the other services they perform for their customers because they use similar information technology.
Google has suggested it could sell auto makers the mapping and machine-vision technology it's developing for its self-driving cars, or offer that technology for free as part of a package of other Google products and services.
The impact investing industry channels capital to market-based solutions in areas such as affordable housing, clean technology, financial services for the poor, sustainable agriculture and other related sectors while targeting returns ranging from below market to market rate.
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Other NYSE sources of revenues include clearing fees, market data, listing fees and technology services.
In other words, Kan wants Exec to remain a technology company, not a cleaning or services company.
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Healthcare services spent less than one tenth what banks and other industries spent on technology investments to create better information flow and cross-boundary collaboration.
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The other driver: Now that accounting firms are prohibited from selling higher-margin technology consulting services to their auditing clients, auditing units have to pull more of their own weight.
Among other things, the company has moved more aggressively into offering combinations of business software and technology services that help companies and governments solve knotty problems, such as catching welfare fraud.
G2G Cloud Solutions is working in partnership with the National Association of Counties (NACo) to expand shared services and hosted applications on a national scale, offering technology solutions to other governments at a cost that is significantly lower than other options.
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Those expenses are largely unnecessary if we can use digital technology to manage the flow of payments, which is commonplace in other industries, from financial services and banking to retail.
For example, when American firms outsource call-centre and information-technology-support jobs to India and other Asian countries, the result should be higher imports of services, yet official statistics do not show such an increase.
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The Corporate Operations segment encompasses management and other functional activities such as group financing, asset management, information technology, collection, personnel, and accounting services.
Bitcoin, Inc. would have a radically new technology, thousands of loyal customers, and a growing community of other venture-backed startups building products and services on top of the infrastructure it provided.
As high-frequency trading matures, margins will tighten and firms will look for other ways to make money, such as institutional trading services and market-making, often gaining the expertise and technology through acquisitions or building upon their existing intellectual property.
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Recent research from organizations like Kennedy Information and SPI Research is providing insight into the impact of technology in client acquisition and retention for professional services firms. (For specific insights from these and other industry thought leaders, please visit our online summit.) These range from opportunity identification, to proposal development, service execution and expectations management.
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