Globalization, coupled with the shift to a services-driven economy, presents many opportunities and challenges to the workforce of tomorrow.
With the shift to discovery, Foursquare is entering a crowded market around mobile search, where companies like Google, Facebook, Yelp, and others are already playing.
"With the shift to notebooks, and even the mini-notes and the low-priced, low-featured notebooks, all of that will be made offshore, " says Shannon Cross, an analyst with Cross Research.
But when they say the film rental business has "faced increased competition from internet-based providers along with the shift to digital streaming of movies and games", that's accountants' under-statement.
Until recently, the woes of the traditional family farms in the south, combined with the shift to huge, mechanised estates in the cerrado, had prompted an increase in rural unemployment, and land invasions.
With the great shift to big data centers and cloud computing, is it possible to build another Oracle?
Broadly speaking, DirecTV should think in the direction of aligning itself with the consumers shift to broadband and find ways to benefit from this migration.
Han Mun Deok, from the ministry of health, says the rise in insurance premiums is part of a bigger strategy, with the setting up of a special commission tasked with preparing for the shift to an ageing society.
The BBC's former director-general Mark Thompson confirmed up to 120 jobs are to go at BBC Scotland but added that would be offset with the shift of network programming to Scotland, when he gave evidence to the committee in May.
As more visionary investors jump on a new freight train, they may create not only greater returns, but may also become the leaders heralded as those with the vision and forethought to shift the planet economically, as well as socially and environmentally.
Success has much more to do with the ability to shift.
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Headcount within the Home Entertainment and Sound Business Group, including the TV business group which has been implementing a series of ongoing profitability improvement measures, is expected to be reduced by approximately 20% by the end of October 2012 due to the transfer of employees outside the Company, together with a resource shift in personnel to other operations within the Sony Group.
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The rare Republican rebellion Tuesday coincides with a notable shift to the left by Mr. Cuomo, who is advocating a minimum-wage increase and a package of women's rights laws this year in addition to the new firearms restrictions passed last month.
But lists like this, besides providing an ego-check, do serve a purpose: they give us the chance to put the slow weeks before the holidays to get cozy with the thesaurus button (Shift-F7 for those not in-the-know) and rework out professional paperwork before the new year comes calling.
Although the American press has been slow to sense the historic significance of British popular exasperation with the EU, this has the potential to shift the ground under the latter-day world order.
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Early in this decade Intel found a groove when paired a new breed of power sipping mobile processors with wireless connectivity to lead the shift from boxy, deskbound PCs to thin, light notebook computers.
People familiar with the matter point to strategic reasons for the shift: risk diversification after Foxconn's manufacturing glitches last year with the iPhone 5 that resulted in scratches on the metal casings, and Apple's decision to expand its product lines amid growing competition from Samsung Electronics Co.
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These trends and my own personal experiences with the health care industry motivated me to create Revolution Health with the hope that we could help catalyze a shift to a new system driven by consumers, shaped by market forces and powered by technology.
Global notebook shipments have grown by about 25% annually on average over the last five years, and the trend is expected to continue with the advent of netbooks and continuing shift from desktops to notebooks.
But they concluded that social issues like abortion, guns, religion, and even (outside the South) race had little to do with the shift.
John Buck beat the defensive shift with an RBI single to right and the Mets scored again when third baseman Jayson Nix bobbled Marlon Byrd's RBI grounder for an error.
Disney also laid off about the same number at the movie studio in April to cope with the decline in DVD sales as consumer habits shift to digital forms of home entertainment.
Indeed, now that the European club of nations has finally begun formal talks with Turkey, the focus may shift to the resistance among the Turks themselves to the legal, economic and cultural changes that the EU is demanding.
With the great shift from PCs over to high-mobility devices, a lot of change is coming to the ecosystem that makes the chips that run them.
The challenge is to shift ocean use and governance to live with and from the ocean sustainably, which requires changing our relationship with the ocean and our behaviour.
But now, right-handed hitters like Alex Rodriguez are forced to deal with the shift, seeing a mass of infielders in the left-field space where he used to deposit soft line drives for hits.
Communications operators that manage petabyte scale today expect 10-100x data growth due to the shift to 4G and LTE with increasing endpoint devices connected to leverage thousands of mobile apps.
To Ortiz, the best way to beat the shift is to work on hitting the ball hard up the middle, with some line drives to left field.
"In recent years we have been the most lucrative major championship in dollar terms but with the shift in the exchange rate that may be difficult to sustain, " said Hill.
Instead, policymakers continue to replace old debt with new debt, shift it from the private to the public sector, and increase the amount of base money in the system to fill the gaps in both bank and government balance sheets.
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