Cheap tech and shrinking transaction costs within supplier networks are two trends that outpace any large company's ability to adapt.
Now its time has come, aided by the rise of the Internet and wireless tech and the plunging costs of transmission and storage.
The new security-industrial complex will grow, because we need it and because this economic juggernaut will take us down the now familiar tech curve of declining costs.
As start-up costs for tech companies come down, entrepreneurial tech clusters such as those in Berlin and Nairobi see growing numbers of developers, investment and perhaps most importantly, belief from the international communities whose collaboration will help ensure their future success.
Manufacturers of small high-tech electronics goods, where freight costs account for a tiny fraction of the retail price, may not be that bothered about hedging freight rates.
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All five countries have rejigged their medical services and reined in their spending over the past decade, trying to cope with the rising costs of high-tech treatment and an ageing population.
While anecdotes abound here as well, systematic evaluations of federal programs find no evidence that 60 years of federal energy tech spending have produced more benefits than costs.
Housing costs in Sacramento, now a tech burg, are a fifth of Palo Alto's.
These federally mandated requirements for Internet infrastructure could lead to big costs for U.S. tech, Internet and other firms and fundamentally change the way they operate.
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But each bridge owner must weigh the costs and benefits of including high-tech sensor arrays.
U.S. unemployment remains stubbornly high and start-up costs are rising, while high-tech exports are in decline.
The data center will be used to provide server space for tech startups at lower rates to help them keep costs down.
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So, the next time you start to moan about the weird tech support guys and grumble about your internal support costs and how little seems to get done just understand that this stupid Microsoft bug is just one small part of the black hole that sucks away their time.
Going high-tech may save the system lots of money in lower administration costs, but it may help the fraudsters too.
But as regulations tightened and costs to businesses and families increased, even the high-tech industry began to fade.
Extrapolating from North Carolina, perhaps other states with an abundance of energy-producing manure and lower-than-average energy costs (like Iowa) can expect to see interest from other tech giants and their fuel cells.
To be sure, tech spending can't stop entirely, particularly technology that automates transactions and lowers the costs of doing business.
Some companies, such as New York-based tech advisory firm Basex and outplacement firm Challenger, Gray and Christmas have tried to quantify the productivity costs of employees distracted by online activity, such as fantasy sports.
Reducing labour costs and boosting productivity is all the more important since Portugal is exposed to relatively low-tech areas of activity such as textiles that are vulnerable to competition from developing countries.
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The costs to implement VoLTE are difficult to determine, said Jeremy Green, an analyst with London-based tech consulting firm Ovum.
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But Grove acknowledged under questioning that the tech industry itself is responsible for numerous jobs leaving the United States, as firms take advantage of considerably cheaper labor costs in India and elsewhere.
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