NCR Corporation (NCR) and its subsidiaries provide technology and solutions for the retail and financial industries. Through customer service business, the company also provides services for the telecommunications, transportation, insurance, utilities, and electronic commerce industries, as well as for consumer goods manufacturers and government entities. The company's solutions include consulting services, hardware technology, value-adding software, global customer support, and a complete line of business consumables and specialty media products. The company was founded in 1884 and is headquartered in Dayton, Ohio.

NCR's current segments include: Financial Self Service, Retail Store Automation, Customer Services, Systemedia, and Payment & Imaging and Other. The company s data warehousing business, Teradata, was spun off as to shareholders during the third quarter of 2007. Stockholders on record on the date of the distribution (September 14, 2007) received one share of Teradata Corporation for each share of NCR they owned. One hundred percent of the approximately 181 million shares of Teradata common stock were distributed. The new company, Teradata Corporation, now owns the assets and liabilities associated with the Teradata business, and began regular trading of its common stock on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "TDC" from October 1, 2007. Mike Koehler, who used to lead the Teradata division of NCR, has become Chief Executive Officer of the new company and serves on its board of directors. NCR has thus excluded the results of Teradata business, and has accounted it as a discontinued operation from the third quarter of 2007.

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