One bit of the world I know a good deal about is the mining and processing of various minor metals.
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On-line data centers are increasing their capacity to deal with this increased demand for processing power, communication speeds and digital storage capacity but despite the increases in efficiency of enterprise equipment and software there is a price to pay for universal connectivity and general on-line resources.
Our brains are much better at processing the simple risks we've had to deal with throughout most of our species' existence, and much poorer at evaluating the complex risks modern society forces us to face.
Given that on average it takes only about two tons of alumina to produce one ton of aluminum, the barter deal may have left Iralco with more aluminum after processing the alumina than it supplied to Glencore.
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Over the weekend, Prime Minister Julia Gillard also sealed a deal with Papua New Guinea's government to conduct offshore processing on Manus Island.
The RoboBraille service is currently processing about 400 requests a day but the system has the capacity to deal with up to 14, 000 a day.
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.
Unless it suspends this and other nuclear work, as the UN Security Council has repeatedly demanded, any deal to ship some of its already accumulated low-enriched uranium abroad for further processing will look less of a breakthrough than first hoped.
The company is also slowly moving into the business process outsourcing, or BPO space, with a recent deal with ING bank in the U.S. Cognizant will be working with insurance claims processing for ING and hiring 1, 000 ING staffers and make them members of the Cognizant family.
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