That breach boom is likely convincing companies to shore up software vulnerabilities in their inhouse-coded applications.

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As part and parcel of this Apple has brought the design of its processing chips inhouse.

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There are people out there who claim to be able to do what is currently done inhouse better and or cheaper.

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"Ms Heggessey has brought an inhouse marketing team to look at all aspects of BBC One and give it a general healthcheck, " said a BBC spokesman.

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Apple has been taking more of the design of the chips inhouse over recent generations of them, leaving Samsung just as a fab rather than designer.

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There have also been stories around that Apple is looking to either bring inhouse the chip fabrication itself, or to look for another fab house to bake them.

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Profits collected in the UK and other major markets are funnelled out via a network of subsidiaries, in the form of royalty payments for intangibles such as use of the brand or technology developed inhouse.

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