Firms with a big exposures to raw materials and commodity products have faced rising input costs as of late.

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Companies with heavy exposure to raw materials, particularly in the food and beverage segments, have to balance rising input costs with consumer demand.

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Just as homomorphic encryption allows people to aggregate two functions without knowing the original input, new data mining technologies may allow meaningful statistical results without access to original raw user data.

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