Today these "advanced technologies", as they are called internally, bring in 25% of Cisco's revenues (see chart 2).
One is the data network; another is a "private branch exchange" (PBX) for external phone calls; a third is an "automatic call distributor" (ACD) to route calls internally; and the fourth is a voicemail system.
To accommodate their growing trade business, Mr. Adelson and his partners — Mr. Chafetz, Mr. Cutler and Jordan Shapiro, an optometrist from the old neighborhood ("the boys," as they were often called internally) — bought the aging Sands Hotel and Casino from the financier Kirk Kerkorian for $128 million.
The rest have stayed miserably within the country that has made them homeless and are called internally displaced persons.Syria has produced more refugees than any other conflict of the past two decades: more than the genocide in Rwanda (2.3m refugees in 1994); the war in Kosovo (800,000 in 1999) or the post-war period in Iraq (at least 300,000 in 2006-13).
"That was always an issue for us," Don Logan, the president of Time Inc., told the Los Angeles Times in 1997, a few months after Stewart managed to raise enough of what she called "internally generated capital," $53.3 million, to buy herself out of Time Warner, which had been resisting expansion of a business built entirely around a single personality.
It's already created a whole product line that's called, internally, "Catchup".
Back then, it was thought to have been called internally as the Opal.
Project Titan, as it is called internally, has already gone through a bunch of leadership and roadmap changes.
The "Bélo," as it's called internally, looks like an upper-case "A" that has the familiar symbol for location on a map inside.
