First, the problem: payment platforms have to process orders from many more sources than do credit card companies.

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It was a bad fit and was unable to process orders.

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The Smarter Checkout solution also allows the customers to use their mobile devices to process orders, redeem digital coupons, access loyalty points, and pay for purchases at IBM self-service pay counters.

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In 1998, Toyota Motor (nyse: TM - news - people ) started developing a new delivery system now being implemented that is meant to drastically reduce the time it takes to process orders and deliver cars to dealers.

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Naturally, Goldman is in the process of trying to centralize all equity orders from every part of the firm, including its block trading desk and the division that services high net wealth clients, to increase its market share of all equities traded.

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Some activists have been urging Obama to bypass the often messy legislative process and instead focus on executive orders and regulations from the Environmental Protection Agency.

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Also convincing investors that the ECB wants to get back into its nascent monetary tightening process was a report showing German factory orders jumped by 2.8% in April.

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Regulators, citing a pattern of violations, have been slapping Massey with "show cause" orders: They will suspend, even permanently revoke, permits to mine or process or store coal, if the company doesn't show it has mended its ways.

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Weak global demand for PC DRAM chips still weighed on Samsung's push for a recovery, although it responded to increased orders for server and mobile DRAM and hastened migration to the 30-nanometer and below process.

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