Starting in 1993 they began selling off non-core holdings, including a food processing business, an investment bank and a hotel.
Cell phones had cameras for at least that long before the traditional photo taking and processing business was seriously threatened.
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He also started a data processing business, which he sold in 1968 to University Computing, later acquired by Computer Associates.
It is also one of the biggest customers of Petra's cocoa-processing business, buying a range of customized cocoa products from the Singapore company.
Good luck to Pfizer getting into the word-processing business.
Italy is famous for food as well as luxury: in January Princes, a British subsidiary of Japan's Mitsubishi Corporation, said it would buy 51% of a giant tomato-processing business in southern Italy.
Having a commercial bank would boost Morgan Stanley's efforts to use its balance sheet to attract more investment banking business, bring it a cheap source of deposit gathering and also bring it a fund-processing business.
For much less than it would have cost to build new capacity, the acquisition boosts ADMs share of the U.S. soybean processing business from 29% to 31% and gives it its first soybean processing plant on the Mississippi.
Providers need to get out of the claim processing business altogether and patients should be responsible for filing their claims. technology exists today that allows providers to secure the balance from the patient and provide them what they need to get reimbursed.
Mobile processing gives business owners the ability to process payments through smartphone or mobile devices.
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Those cost cutting measures have them looking for two things: outside consulting expertise and outsourced technology and business processing.
He has no intention of going into the processing or distribution business himself.
Infy responded by cutting its head count and shifting some of its strategy to other markets outside of its core, such as business processing.
Mr. VOISIN: If it wasn't for the guest-worker program, our business would be on the verge of collapse, the processing part of our business.
Burns says Xerox now has expertise in a variety of business processing segments, including customer care and call centers, health care, transportation and IT outsourcing.
While the regular IT industry catered to the global needs of cost-effective software and business processing, mobiles served the communication needs of average Indian citizens.
People put Bank of New York in a deal with JPMorgan Chase because the two are among the largest in securities processing, a business that depends on scale for profitability.
The devices are derided sometimes for being limited in their reliance on apps, but those apps can allow a user to accomplish a myriad of tasks, from simple word processing to completing business projects.
Even over at eBay (EBAY) one of the largest retailers on the Internet, payment processing is a huge business.
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But on today's estimates only 1.05m suitably qualified people will graduate from college between now and then, so there will be a shortfall of nearly 500, 000, with business-processing the worst affected.
ADM's core business is the processing of commodities like corn, which are destined for food or beverage products.
It is obvious that full incorporation of external data sources is going to be a long-term effort, involving changes to data processing technology, analytics, business relationships, and ways of working.
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Now what was once was a fun computer-science experiment in natural language processing is becoming a real business for IBM and Wellpoint, which is the exclusive reseller of the technology for now.
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Marketocracy's best investors are taking an especially harsh view of business services and transaction processing companies.
Contrary to popular belief, customer service is not a cost center like payroll processing or other non-strategic business functions.
As the tobacco industry shifted in the 1980s and the business of preliminary tobacco processing began to decline, there were a number of old warehouses around Kentucky that were no longer being used.
Our technology industry component covers 11 six-digit NAICS sectors covering information industries such as software publishing, Internet publishing, data processing, and tech-related business services such as computer systems design, custom programming, engineering services, and research and development.
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The business operates from seven major processing dairies in Aberdeen, East Kilbride, Glasgow, Manchester, Droitwich Spa, Okehampton and Bridgwater.
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