In stark contrast to this crisis, is the exponential growth of another problem, food waste.
In many ways, Blizzard Entertainment is responsible for the exponential growth eSports has experienced around the globe.
AWG's network was designed from the ground up to meet the exponential growth in users and demand for bandwidth.
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The exponential growth of Facebook, in particular, has opened the door for campaigns to recruit from social networks, Sullivan explains.
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The exponential growth of Apple is over and now it is just another player and the incumbent who has to fight to remain in place.
Their argument is that the exponential growth in web usage, particularly bandwidth intensive video applications, along with the rise in infrastructure costs, means that their business has become more costly.
The exponential growth of data has specifically affected the legal profession, where the amount of data being produced is outpacing the ability of humans and technology to cost-effectively manage and review it.
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It brought mobile network operators and banks together to take advantage of the exponential growth of mobile phones ownership in Africa, ushering in a movement that has revolutionized the way financial services reach unbanked and under-banked people in developing economies.
Cloud and Big Data processing capabilities are further fueling innovation in financial technology typified by the myriad startups eschewing FICO scores in favor of new proprietary scoring algorithms that leverage the exponential growth in data available to forecast credit worthiness.
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W. Tucker , executive director and member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England, warned a week ago that the exponential growth of credit derivatives has resulted in a backlog of confirmations between dealers, meaning that transactions have not been recognized in writing.
Yet over the past 18 months, hope has sprung eternal amongst IT and Internet venture investors driven largely by a daily barrage of blog and news headlines covering the exponential growth and dramatic returns prospects of a small handful of social networking and gaming companies.
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Coming off a 2011 holiday season that witnessed consumers purchasing tablets at a torrid pace, the recent exponential growth in sales promises to spur the consumption of games, which numerous studies indicate are the number one activity on tablet devices.
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The industries involved also need to ensure that the infrastructure is scalable to handle the potential exponential growth of a huge customer base.
Of all the companies that have benefited from the exponential mobile devices growth, one stands out: Qualcomm (NASDAQ:QCOM).
The challenge is maintaining exponential growth without choking on traffic, pollution and crime that also grow at the same exponential rate.
The Antitrust Division is a perfect example, having experienced exponential growth in the amount of discovery and information that it receives in response to Second Requests.
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"With nearly 10 billion devices connected to the internet and predictions for exponential growth, we've reached a point where the space, power and cost demands of traditional technology are no longer sustainable, " said Meg Whitman, president and chief executive officer, HP.
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But Messrs Brynjolfsson and McAfee argue that because the growth is exponential, it is deceptive in its pace.
In the face of continued exponential growth in mobile Internet traffic, these networks just need a lot more raw capacity to keep up.
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That debt will experience exponential growth as the baby boomer generation adds 10, 000 retirees per day to the entitlement program roles.
Bringing together resources with common vision can create exponential growth opportunities for the cluster.
The leveraged incentivized competition methodology can unlock exponential growth in technologies, stimulating solutions to complicated, seemingly intractable problems.
That concept isn't really compelling to the masses until one focuses on the "knee" of this exponential curve -- the point where the perpetual doubling of technological growth skyrockets and negates the linear models of progress that people like economists have relied on for so long.
Over the last few years there has been an exponential growth in ebooks.
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But growth could be exponential once the SEC issues the new rules.
The growth of data traffic and mobile is exponential, which never happened in the past.
Our brains, oriented towards linear thinking, have difficulty adjusting to a world in which innovation and the growth of intangible capital can proceed at exponential rates.
At least till the day Rackspace, Amazon and their ilk revert to valuation metrics that value investors can understand, there is a possibility that the century-long run of stock charts of exponential growth might resume.
In addition, pre-crisis periods are often characterized by exponential growth in trading or transaction volume in the respective market or asset.
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