Branch, telecoms and technology costs are more or less the same as they are in the West.
Although banks have often talked of bringing technology costs under control, this time they may really mean it.
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Pressure from both machine-stitching (as quality improves) and thermal-sealing (as technology costs fall) will squeeze an entire segment of this lucrative industry right off the map.
True, the technology costs more up front, but as volumes increase all signs point to a steady decrease in the price of lithium batteries and related hardware.
We expect that technology costs will continue to increase in the medium term as Amazon continues to innovate new products and services as well as enhance existing products and services.
Eighty-three percent of the respondents see risk management investments (which include salary and benefits for risk employees, professional services, technology costs, facilities, and travel) increasing in the next two years.
Lowering health technology costs, driven by GE in India.
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While revenues are under threat, technology costs have soared.
In a forthcoming book, Taming The Beloved Beast: How Medical Technology Costs Are Destroying Our Healthcare System, Callahan compares this to having a dog who chews the carpet, pees on the floor and knocks over the guests.
Some banks, including Citigroup (nyse: C - news - people ), have been trying to get bigger in the business, but dozens of others have sold out, mostly to those three giants, over the last decade because they couldn't keep up with the technology costs.
This also explains why new medical technology increases costs, while in every other field new technology drives down costs.
The company will likely also combine technology systems and thereby reduce technology maintenance costs.
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However, rare in history has the advent of technology reduced costs.
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It is, after all, really a question of technology and costs: the use of fossil fuels, and not economic activity, is to blame for climate change.
Any new technology generally costs an arm, a leg, and a bit of your sanity to adopt early, but that's a luxury that the well settled auto market cannot afford.
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Since both patients and health providers are now concerned with costs, technology innovators would now have incentives to develop technologies that reduce costs, as well as improve quality.
Since both patients and health providers are now concerned with costs, technology innovators will now have incentives to develop technologies that reduce costs, as well as improve quality.
Mr. Bascom may indeed have invented and patented the technology, but the costs of invention and patenting of this sort of technology are likely not anywhere near the cost of prosecuting an infringement action or defending a declaratory judgment action.
New technology brought down costs: hand-driven presses gave way to steam-driven ones, and then electric ones.
Instead of cosmetics, a haircut and new clothes, its using technology to cut costs, save time and reduce risks.
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Digital technology slashes such costs, and thus reduces the argument for protection.
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Thanks to dramatic advances in wind-turbine technology, the costs of setting up and operating wind generators now approach those of gas turbines, even without subsidies.
That does not include all the information technology or labor costs of analyzing that data, but companies are sprouting up to take care of that, too.
We may not be able to stem baseline tuition inflation, but technology can cut costs in a host of other areas ranging from housing to poorly informed decisions.
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But as volume picked up, technology improves, costs go down.
Even Glu just announced that it will also open up a Beijing office, but the company says that because of its proprietary technology, its costs are a fraction of what others pay.
These applications can support the much higher cost of the initial products using this technology but the costs will likely go down with time allowing wider spread use of such high performance memory.
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New technology pushes up costs.
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If the technology successfully drives costs lower, it could be a welcome boost for Hollywood, which, despite selling the world tales of futuristic sophistication, is as an industry often behind the curve in technology--images are stored on bulky, perishable film stock and large crews of technicians take orders from essentially paper-based offices.
In other words, you can think of a city as a technology for lowering the costs of face-to-face interaction in precisely the same way that the Internet is a technology for lowering the cost of exchanging information.
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