At the moment, electronic buying accounts for 10% of Siemens's euro35 billion annual procurement bill.
It is also joining other telecommunications companies to create an electronic buying exchange for the industry.
When the Internet wave hit, it was one of the world's biggest industrial buyers, with one of its biggest electronic buying networks.
They are letting electronic buying exchanges like EDS CoNext and Chemdex handle all the paperwork associated with orders, and even allowing them to negotiate for nonstrategic supplies.
In late 1976 Commodore Business Machines, an established electronics firm that had been active in producing electronic calculators, bought a small hobby-computer company named MOS Technology.
Gail Griffin, R-Hereford, recently introduced House Bill 2444, which would require electronics manufacturers to preinstall porn-blocking software on all electronic devices bought or sold in the state, the Arizona Mirror reported.
On Friday, Nasdaq, the world's largest electronic exchange, bought Instinet, its last remaining rival.
PAGE A8 The Gadget Trap New electronic devices bought and barely used are technology's equivalent of exercise equipment.
As for the others — the phones, tablets, game consoles, high-end digital cameras and other electronic goodies bought this decade — that's cash sitting neglected in those drawers.
These salespeople typically pore over electronic profiles bought from data brokers, dossiers that detail the brands and amounts of drugs a particular doctor has prescribed.
Ten years ago, when Darrell Cooper, a consultant in the legal field for electronic discovery, bought his studio apartment at No. 183, he paid $39,000 cash.
