The difference is that the vertical engine drills down and down into the data and provides an ordered experience: say, on travel, or certain kinds of shopping.

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But with his own plane in a near-vertical, nose-down dive, the pilot and his crew had little time to think about the fate of the Chinese pilot.

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They saw the growing importance of digital imaging, but in their linear analysis of the digital threat, they concluded it was decades away from becoming mainstream so they doubled down on vertical integration into film processing while setting up a small ancillary digital imaging group to develop and sell digital cameras.

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That purchase led Paz down a profitable path toward vertical integration.

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Mippin is creating a series of vertical templates so that the production cost comes down to zero and the app publishing is charged at a monthly SaaS rate.

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By drawing on ability from all echelons, with communications characterized by interaction, both vertical and horizontal, rather than one-way and top-down, acceptable decisions can be made faster.

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These days vertical integration makes less sense for big players since refinery operations at the moment are dragging down the overall profit margin.

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The stone cages would have held the tigers, lions and other exotic animals that were hoisted in wooden elevators through 80 vertical tunnels up to the arena. 2000 years ago, it must have been chaos down here with the gladiators, animals, large sets for other parts of the productions and hundreds of stagehands putting on the show.

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There are a couple of related key features here: first we have the zoom bar in the album app -- you hold down your finger to prompt the bar, and then you can zoom in and out with your vertical scrolling action.

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