Food Genius plans to set itself apart by using big data mining technologies and machine processing to spot trends faster than any of these companies currently can.

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Either way, factories have to take advantage of new capabilities enabled by the increasingly rapid convergence of mobility, real-time complex data processing and analytics, cloud based services and machine-to-machine intelligence.

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