While IGT may have fallen behind in coming up with flashy new games, the company manages to keep its customers in line by dominating the back room with accounting software that keeps a real-time record of the money that's being won and lost on each slot machine.
Moreover, in order to keep MocoSpace working without interruption, the company needs more people in operations to set up servers and other infrastructure to keep up with the demand.
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Sony's core electronics business, which still accounts for 60% of the group's overall sales, is in trouble because the company has failed to keep up with the times.
One bright note: higher beer prices and some cost cutting helped the company keep its overall financial performance for the quarter in line with its forecasts.
Sony shares have lost two-thirds of their value over the last five years, as the company has struggled to keep pace with new developments in portable music and flat-screen televisions.
But in the last two years, the company has failed to keep up with innovation.
To keep up with such international demands, the company, which has always been based in London, has had to invest in its facility.
Sometimes public-relations teams are asked to keep an eye on online discussions, and switched-on company executives visit forums to stay in touch with the public mood.
Fresh off unveiling its BlackBerry 10 operating system and two new phones, the company tried to keep its badly needed momentum going with a 30-second spot in which a guy uses the new BlackBerry Z10 to set himself on fire, grow elephant legs and magically turn an out-of-control big rig into an exploding pile of rubber duckies.
But the company did keep at least one trick up its sleeve: a tablet with a built-in palm reader.
The company hopes to keep players coming back and playing with this latest expansion pack, the third in a series.
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Facebook is under pressure to keep growing, but the company is rapidly approaching a saturation point with the adult population of Internet users in countries in many markets.
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The company was in trouble, and Taylor came to his backers with a question: should we keep going or call it quits?
As in Chesapeake's deals with Cnooc, Devon's pact with Sinopec allows the American company to keep full operating control as well as control over sales of oil and gas from the wells.
As the glut worsened--demand would have had to grow sixteenfold annually to keep up with the building binge of Global and others--the company increased fiber swaps, booking them in a way that artificially, though legally, juiced earnings.
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