Is Ben Bernanke failing to account for the natural price drops in digital products and Web distribution?
If prices for products touched by digital technology and Web distribution are trending toward free, how the heck can we simultaneously have inflation?
Here might be why: The collapsing cost of digital technologies and Web distribution gets worked into the Producer Price Index and Consumer Price Index.
Google for search marketing, PayPal for online payment, DHL and UPS for delivery, Amazon for cloud computing, and Akami for web content distribution.
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But if the volumes aren't there, a Web-only distribution center won't hold up.
Distributing persuasive content efficiently and at scale to constituents has actually never been easier with the emergence of the social Web and content distribution platforms that foster that serendipitous moment of happening upon an interesting piece of content.
Reitzes thinks Apple can recapture some momentum by expanding its Web services, broadening distribution launching new products.
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But the greater economies of scale in inventory and distribution linked to Web sales makes them more profitable.
Maybe bankroll some good movies and web series too, retaining distribution rights.
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The Web offered a new model of content distribution, and HTML and Java were indeed major advances.
All coins and medallions will be presented in a web-based catalogue and made available through distribution network in participating countries.
Global distribution can be economically fulfilled by opening a Web site and a logistics company.
The stock case for this resides in Amazon, which is continually investing in distribution centers, new products and its Amazon Web Services platform to the detriment of margins, and shareholders just keep paying 71.6 times forward earnings.
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Thomas got LexisNexis to share data on millions of court citations, and with the help of mathematician Antonio Tomarchio, he showed that citations display a highly skewed distribution, similar to that of links among Web sites or the likelihood that top movie stars will appear in a film together.
Like a lot of people I thought patient Web groups were merely chat boards and self-help news distribution.
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The other half worked on the back end, crunching computer code to build systems for order-processing, distribution and inventory flow and to integrate a new Web site tracking system with the existing ones.
Next step (negotiations are under way): Get Web-order companies to send products to the 7-Eleven distribution network for pickup at a nearby store.
Data entry tasks are delivered to each mobile device by the mobile web, and MobileWorks handles the end-to-end work distribution, guarantee of accuracy, and employee payment.
The service was first launched on the web but has since expanded to mobile devices, a good move since distribution matters as much as content.
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By requiring authentication to access live programming on new media devices, ESPN and its distribution partners are extending their lucrative pay-TV business model onto the Web as the Internet becomes a more mainstream place for consumers to watch video content and a potential replacement to traditional TV.
Barely a year later, after the Stephen Glass fiasco (see "Forbes smokes out fake New Republic story on hackers, " Forbes Digital Tool, May 11), the online distribution of the Starr Report, and the proliferation of serious news outlets on the web, only the most undesirable demographic--the hopelessly uninformed--would dispute the legitimacy and power of online media.
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