This decision is also hard to make because when you are a backend technology provider, it's like selling a piece of commodity.

之所以这是一个困难的决定还因为,当作为后台技术提供商时，就像出售一件商品似的。

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You know this, you can - it's hard to pick up a newspaper or a news magazine without hearing some new application of DNA technology.

你知道的,你-,随便翻一份报纸或杂志,上面很少没提到DNA技术的某个新应用

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"It's hard to imagine a successful technology company not having at least some presence in California, " Landis says.

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But the toll is particularly hard on Singapore's home-grown technology companies, IPC, Creative Technology and Aztech Systems, which had been the darlings of investors and symbols of local entrepreneurial spirit.

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"It's hard enough for people to communicate with each other even when there's no technology involved, " says Burton Group's O'Kelly.

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