He also notes that the company is now in qualification with a number of PC makers on hybrid drives, which includes both the quick booting characteristics of solid-state drives, and the capacity advantages of hard drives.

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The criteria for qualification also included company size, based on annual revenue, multinational presence and high familiarity among consumers in the measured 15 markets (Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Russia, South Korea, Spain, the U.K. and the U.S.).

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The criteria for qualification also included company size, based on annual revenue, multinational presence and high familiarity among consumers in the measured 15 markets (Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Russia, Spain, South Korea, the U.K. and the U.S.).

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The guides of the independent London Walks company have earned the city's premiere professional qualification for walking tours, the Blue Badge.

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The company offers workplace training which has been approved as a nationally accredited vocational qualification.

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Additionally, the company witnessed high inventory write-offs on account of increased production of its Haswell products prior to the qualification for sale.

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