Stamping Out Email

Some of the most popular email services on the Internet are considering the prospect of charging to deliver messages. This initially would be targeted at advertisers and will encourage them to pay a small fee ($0.005 – $0.01) to guarantee delivery of a message. If these business choose not to pay a delivery fee, they risk having the email delivered directly to the users spam folder or even having the message rejected altogether.
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Taking It To The Bank

During the early 1980’s the economy was suffering from recession, and GM seized this as an opportunity to modernize vehicle assembly plants using robotics and other computer automation. It was also about this time that GM partnered with Toyota to build an economical vehicle, and over the next decade they churned out over a million of these cheap cars. Soon after, GM partnered with Isuzu and Honda to expand these outsourcing opportunities for other core components of their vehicles.
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