That third party is telling everyone of the level playing field and the economy of scale benefits it will have, but another manufacturer is moving ever closer to full integration of the hardware and software, threatening Samsung.
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Microsoft general counsel Brad Smith is trying to figure out how Europe can balance its local needs to have some sorts of data located within its borders with the need to get the economy of scale promised by cloud computing.
However, as the ever-wise economist Steve Hanke points out (see p. 222), China does not have enough reserves, given the size of its economy and the scale of its banking system's bad loans.
In other parts of the economy, efficiencies of scale usually lead to lower prices.
Our nation deserves better choices than, on one hand, accepting the catastrophic damage caused by a failure like Lehman Brothers, or on the other hand being forced to pour billions of taxpayer dollars into an institution like AIG to protect the economy against that scale of damage.
Franklin Roosevelt, who presided over a country with a third-rate army, ordered an industrial transformation of the American economy on a scale that seemed simply out of reach, with the focused, urgent aim of defeating the Nazis.
Competing in the search advertising market means getting search volume, and Heiner contends that the way Google does business makes it hard for anyone to get to the kind of economy of scale to make a search endeavor to work.
In the February 2013 CMO Survey, 468 U.S. CMOs rated their optimism for the economy on a scale of 0 (lowest) to 100 (highest).
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Indeed, Salesforce.com exhibits the opposite of an economy of scale.
First, as the examples of China, Poland, Romania and others have demonstrated, greater integration into the global economy and large-scale infusions of Western capital, technology and investment into command economies do not automatically assure a transition into market-based reforms and necessary levels of political liberalization.
Or rather, after an aberrant half century of industrial-scale McDonaldization of the global economy, the local food industry is actually reclaiming the bellwether status it has always had in history.
No government in the global economy, and certainly not economies on the scale of the U.S., China, Japan and the European Union, can claim a prerogative over domestic action that entirely ignores the systemic affects of its policies.
And playing chicken would include going up to the last minute, which creates a lot of uncertainty for the global economy, on a scale that makes last week look like something very small and local.
But in much of the economy, the digital and the physical, these economies of scale are rapidly diminishing.
If the deal does go through, the British economy would certainly feel the effects of an injection of capital on such a scale.
And while the struggling economy has forced many non-profit charities to scale back the pursuit of their missions for lack of confident donors, Congress withheld a tiny provision in the tax code designed to connect charitably inclined retirees with causes in need of funding for 2012 until ATRA, the American Tax Relief Act of 2013.
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That calculation is included in a new analysis by the Scottish Government's chief economist, Gary Gillespie, setting out the scale of the task in getting the economy going again.
Set against the scale of the world economy, these are not vast gains around 0.1% of global GDP.
The improved American economy of the late 1940s, however, seems to illustrate the benefits of large-scale government stimulus.
The bill would give a proposed new council of regulators the right to dismantle firms whose scale could hurt the economy - even if they are healthy.
Texmaco improved quality, as the Japanese had earlier done, but on an economy of scale.
One is the scale of rebalancing that the world economy requires, and the role of exchange rates in that process.
"We must pay greater attention to the scale of new opportunities: a new economy is emerging, " which focuses more on creative industries and the cultural sector.
In fact, such has been the scale of capital inflows into the American economy in recent years a capital surplus is the necessary and automatic corollary of a current deficit that the dollar could easily fall even without outflows.
Mr Romney's website says that this law is "a quantum increase in the scale of the regulatory burden on the American economy".
Brian Krebs said he was no longer shocked by the scale and sophistication of the hi-tech crime economy.
To avoid such a slump, China should sharply scale back the role of the state in the economy, the report argues.
Japan had pushed product design and the assembly-line genius of Henry Ford to new heights, which let it scale up volume and push down the price of Old Economy products.
So it should be no surprise that the UK is struggling to grow at more than a desperately anaemic rate: the scale of the required re-engineering for the British economy will be the work of many years.
The credibility associated with a project of this scale has significant potential for our economy.
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