“…A battle to the death between billion-dollar tech companies and billion-dollar content providers. …”

“…Drawing on the Internet's most impressive success stories–and its cautionary tales of disaster–she shows how to: Develop the vision of your online brand Identify your true online audience Persuade your customers by empowering them Personalize without becoming intrusive Make the most of online and offline research Use the much-maligned banner ad as a key branding tool Integrate Internet-based and off-line branding activities Appeal more effectively to today's multi-tasking consumer Draw the repeat traffic you're looking for Create affiliate marketing programs that work With Cyberbranding you can master lessons others spent billions to learn-and build 21st century brands worth billions to own. …”

“…Experiences made with Unity reach nearly 3 billion devices worldwide, and were installed 24 billion times in the last 12 months. …”

“…Experiences made with Unity reach nearly 3 billion devices worldwide, and were installed 24 billion times in the last 1..…”

“…A 64-bit quantum computer can process 36 billion bytes of information in each step of the computation. …”

“…The quantum computing market is predicted to grow by nearly $1.3 billion over the next five years. Why? Given their quantum mechanical nature, quantum computers are expected to solve difficult problems in chemistry, optimization, finance, and machine learning that classical computers find impossible to unravel. …”

“…Yet people with disabilities make up 15% of the population - about 1 billion people worldwide. They are all too often overlooked. …”

“…These include contributing to the global mitigation effort and adaptation needed to prevent dangerous climate change, while providing enough food for a population of 9 billion by 2050 as well as shelter and livelihoods for rural populations and various ecosystem services. …”

“…It finds that with over seven million inhabitants and a GDP of around EUR 204 billion, Catalonia is not only an important region within Spain, but within the OECD as well. …”

“…The financial services sector in the United States spent USD 3.4 billion lobbying the federal government between 1998 and 2008, principally promoting the deregulation of the financial sector. …”

“…Advice from a YouTube insider on how to creative effective campaigns YouTube is the top destination for online video. With over a billion viewers around the globe, it's also valuable real estate for marketers looking to get their message out. …”

“…The world is facing challenges on all three dimensions of sustainable development--economic, social and environmental. More than one billion people are still living in extreme poverty, as income and wealth inequality are on the rise. …”

“…A significant amount was committed by international public sources to the 11 countries comprising the EECCA in 2013 and 2014 (i.e. USD 3.3 billion per year), but the scale of such finance varies considerably from country to country and is insufficient to achieve and strengthen their climate targets communicated through the Intended Nationally Determined Contributions COP21. …”

“…It has a population of around 710 000, across 55 000 km2 with an economic output of USD 31 billion. The Bothnian Arc collaboration was initiated by local authorities, with strong commitment of the mayors of the cities of Oulu and Luleå (300 kilometres apart). …”

“…According to an estimate, eutrophication causes losses of almost 2 billion US dollars annually, affecting real estate and fishing activities. …”

“…Today the program serves more than a quarter of the pregnant women and half of the infants in the United States, at an annual cost of about $6.2 billion. Through its contribution to the nutritional needs of pregnant, breastfeeding, and post-partum women; infants; and children under 5 years of age; this federally supported nutrition assistance program is integral to meeting national nutrition policy goals for a significant portion of the U.S. population. …”

“…When China opened its borders to travelers and its economy to international trade, businesses all over the world took note. With well over one billion people, it represented a huge potential marketplace for goods and services. …”

“…The corporate marketing blitz is driven by a simple economic truth: profits depend on demand always exceeding supply. A multi-billion-dollar global industry has therefore been created with the sole aim of turning us into devout consumers. …”

“…Merck's Roy Vagelos commits millions of dollars to develop a drug needed only by people who can't afford it · Eugene Kranz struggles to bring the Apollo 13 astronauts home after an explosion rips through their spacecraft · Arlene Blum organizes the first women's ascent of one of the world's most dangerous mountains · Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain leads his tattered troops into a pivotal Civil War battle at Little Round Top · John Gutfreund loses Salomon Brothers when his inattention to a trading scandal almost topples the Wall Street giant · Clifton Wharton restructures a $50 billion pension system direly out of touch with its customers · Alfredo Cristiani transforms El Salvador's decade-long civil war into a negotiated settlement · Nancy Barry leads Women's World Banking in the fight against Third World poverty · Wagner Dodge faces the decision of a lifetime as a fast-moving forest fire overtakes his firefighting crew…”
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“…In a new theory they call “facilitated variation,” Kirschner and Gerhart elevate the individual organism from a passive target of natural selection to a central player in the 3-billion-year history of evolution. In clear, accessible language, the authors invite every reader to contemplate daring new ideas about evolution. …”