The growing adoption rates of payment technologies by small-business owners might partially explain why credit demand for working capital from small firms remains stubbornly low, even as their balance sheets and credit-worthiness improve, according to Robb Hilson, head of Bank of America small-business segment.

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Ray Irving, the school's head of learning resources development, explains that Warwick is targeting a different market segment, focusing on experienced managers with no option for a career break.

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Though the price is high, Servio appears to be at the head of the pack in what is likely to become an increasingly necessary product segment as more of our lives revolve around digital information.

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"There is intense competition for what turns out to be a narrow segment that has the skills we are looking for, " said Jim Pilarski, the head of HR for Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa for hotel chain operator Marriott International Inc.

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Each segment has an electromagnet attached to it, and these are activated by a current that flows from head to tail in more or less the way that a nerve signal flows in a real animal.

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