At first I took this to mean proximity to Wall Street, but I soon learned that it meant proximity of the financial firms' machines to the machines of the trading exchanges in NJ2.
"This referendum could really backfire," says Tim Squires, commercial director of a family firm making machine parts for the automotive industry.
At the moment the firm sells machines that tune traditional, X-ray-based radiotherapy to make it more effective.
With much of their distribution aimed at small and medium-sized firms, the machine will take the fight to Microsoft.
Projects that once seemed impossible are now feasible, says Werner Burger of Herrenknecht, a German firm whose machines are digging Crossrail.Herrenknecht and Robbins are perhaps the best known of the handful of Western firms that make tunnelling machines.
The Australian firm Seeing Machines is already marketing Driver Safety Solution, which uses a console-mounted camera to look deep into your eyes for signs of drowsiness, and has the ability to trigger a vibrating seat alert.
DRM software is built by such companies as Microsoft and Waltham, Mass.-based software firm Liquid Machines.
Some investors fret that co-location creates a two-tiered system by favouring firms with machines closer to an exchange's data hub.
Alex Salmond, the first minister, boasts that the Pentland Firth will be the "Saudi Arabia" of marine energy.To make it happen, he has ploughed £13m into capital subsidies for firms testing machines in Orkney and put up a £10m prize for the first device to produce more than 100 gigawatt-hours over two years.
According to a report by The Financial Times, the technology – created by the safety firms Seeing Machines and Takata – uses cameras to track a driver's head position and eyes, and pairs the collected data with a 3D image of a vehicle's interior.
