And now that space has become a vast market whose strength lies in its internal diversity and dynamism.
If digitising existing images can be made easy enough, it could open up a vast market in reprints.
As communication facilitates more efficient collaboration within its population and greater specialization-and-exchange within its vast market, the Indian economy will move steadily towards greater optimization.
For Brazil, access to Europe's vast market is second in importance only to the multilateral Doha talks, which offer hope of cutting agricultural subsidies in the rich world.
Text messaging on cellphones, a popular mode of interaction in emerging markets and especially India, is the route to tap into that vast market of hundreds of millions, he says.
EBay senior vice president Michael Dearing told CNN there was a strong symbiosis at play, with eBay giving companies like Auctiondrop a vast market place, while Auctiondrop brings more buyers to the eBay fold.
Increasingly, experts see natural gas as the only economically feasible way to build a new, less-polluting, hydrogen-based economy--a vast market allowing the oil industry a second act at the center of a transportation revolution.
One of the differences between now and the recession of 1990-91 is, on the face of it, that banks are much less exposed to credit risk, thanks to the vast market in corporate debt.
Dychtwald's message: Baby boomers, the 78 million Americans born between 1946 and 1964, present a vast market for a potential explosion of products and services, from new dating websites to longevity insurance to new kinds of food.
Earlier this year, the vast market for commercial paper suddenly dried up, but this was not an insurmountable problem for highly rated companies, which could draw down lines of credit, previously arranged with banks, or tap the market for long-term corporate bonds.
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Remember, the biggest market has yet to adopt Hadoop, the vast IT market.
But to me and my colleagues, those black roofs look like a vast untapped market.
Still, just one-quarter of domestic households subscribe to Netflix, pointing to a vast untapped market.
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Perhaps most important, it has a vast domestic market, much of which is protected from foreign producers.
Television shows enjoy a similarly vast home market (see chart 3).
After growing seven and a half percent in 2010, the vast emerging market just managed to grow less than one percent last year.
Despite the power of its state-owned enterprises, it is taking incremental, but important, steps to liberalize the renminbi and give foreign companies greater access to its vast consumer market.
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Nonetheless, when China began its economic reform program, Coca-Cola was one of the first international companies to understand the inherent potential of the vast China market and returned to the country in 1979.
Still, unless the central bank is prepared to stand behind the banks for ever, some will have to fall by the wayside as both foreign and bigger Nigerian banks sweep up the vast potential market for deposits and mortgages.
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That, he says, is the lesson of the development of Europe's capital markets over the past three decades, specifically the vast Eurobond market, where European banks such as Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank and Paribas all played a big part.
Critically, First Solar executive vice-president T K Kallenbach insists the company will not have to share its cutting-edge PV technology with domestic competitors, as many Western renewables players seeking to enter the vast Chinese market have been forced to do .
Higher premiums are just the beginning, because virtually all existing policies in the individual market and the vast majority in the small-group market do not cover all of the "essential" benefits mandated by the law.
Rushing and racing to take advantage of the vast Chinese automobile market is a big gamble.
The report found that franchise expansion was the leading mode of market entry however, organic growth and website launches accounted for the vast majority of the other market entries during this period.
It is a painful conclusion for those whose hopes of a vast and golden Chinese market have been dashed.
But Microsoft still have the vast majority of that market (Linux etc for the desktop hardly shows up in the figures).
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Subscribers to my investment newsletter, PowerTrend Profits, have become accustomed to my view that the vast majority of the market share for consumer electronics devices tend to consolidate around three vendors.
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