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billion inventory write-off in the third quarter, essentially admitting that it too was caught up in the Internet hype that, at its peak, gave the company the highest market capitalization in Wall Street history. When I was at Gartner Group in 2002, I followed 212 B2B exchanges. Warehouse Robotics.
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