Long a backwater of technology adoption, thanks to the fragmented nature of the shipping and logistics business, the advent of low-cost sensors, cheap smart phones and increasingly robust wireless networks are transforming the "unsexy" business into a sector where investors are cutting big checks at massive valuations.
Meanwhile, the loss of the CD business and the advent of streaming has hit musicians and record labels in different ways.
The original booty calls, these doctors, were put out of business with the advent of the consumer friendly vibrator in 1900.
The sheet music helped build the music business before the advent in the early 1900s of recorded music.
Christel is a technology executive who has built brands and digital businesses since the advent of the digital economy.
In business, especially since the advent of the new economy, it is useful to look as if you are about to run a marathon.
Many computer companies are now focusing on the life sciences business, because, with the advent of genomics, biologists have become voracious users of computers.
In a period of unprecedented volatility, there is mounting concern of how entrepreneurial organizations can respond to an increasingly complex business environment with the advent of the new technologies that have accompanied the emergence of the internationalization of the economy as an exceptional challenge to existing forms of management control at every level of society.
Burkle said that he would have continued as a major player in the supermarket business if not for the advent of Walmart, and he seems regretful that he couldn't fend off its advance.
And as the profits of the business may change through the advent of e-books, the profit margins in this industry are becoming narrower, so I would imagine that it makes both financial and artistic sense to move there".
