This month an international group of nearly 80 researchers, patient advocates, universities and organizations like the National Institutes of Health announced that it wants to consolidate the world's databases of DNA and other genetic information, making data easier for researchers to retrieve and share.
The move would further consolidate the world of online trading.
The company has also helped to consolidate the world's port industry.
SilverRail's non-trivial mission is to consolidate the world's rail ticketing systems into a single system and offer this up via an API, thus removing the complexity of selling rail tickets, irrespective of operators, geographies and currencies.
But one can tell a plausible story that incorporates those data points, by focusing on the role of nuclear arsenals in 1) consolidating the developed world into two armed camps, whose members were naturally less likely to pick fights with one another, and 2) preventing great power conflicts from escalating to total war, as they had frequently in the preceding centuries.
Ed Hatch, who follows the News Corporation and Liberty Media for SG Cowen, said he liked the deal because it should help the News Corporation rapidly deploy the programming guides on the digital satellite platforms that it is consolidating around the world.
Two of Japan's five giant steel makers, the NKK Corporation and the Kawasaki Steel Corporation, said today that they had agreed to merge their operations to compete better globally in an industry whose main customers, car makers, are also consolidating around the world.
Finally, the Republicans "consolidated" the Congressional Research Service CRSS) — the world's premier legislative knowledge bank — to severely restrict specialized knowledge.
Cost-cutting and higher prices for pulp and paper more than doubled third-quarter earnings at Abitibi-Consolidated, the world's biggest newsprint maker.
consolidating the festival's standing as one of the best in Australia, if not the world, 25 years on.
Among other accolades, in May 2014 she was named Goodwill Ambassador of the African Union Campaign to End Child Marriage, further consolidating the World YWCA's important work on ending child, early and forced marriage in a single generation.
