And while the app revolution started with the easy stuff like games, social interaction, Instagram-like photo services, making newspapers easier to read mobile, or restaurants easier to schedule, apps now migrate to seeing, controlling and scheduling everything in the interstices of our economy, including things like automotive and aircraft maintenance.

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Those secondary assets might include things like aluminum packaging and panels for cars and aircraft, The Times said.

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Another bargain: the U.K.-based BBA Group, a conglomerate that makes hydraulic equipment, services aircraft and manufactures nonwoven textiles for things like diapers.

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