Kodak hires digital photo chief

As technological advances are set to simultaneously raise the quality and lower the price of digital photography, Eastman Kodak Co. has hired a Silicon Valley insider to help transition from film to chips. Ted Lewis, ex-president of DaimlerChrysler Research & Technology where he oversaw the automaker's integration of wireless technology as well as e-commerce, will be in charge of building Kodak's digital business, currently accounting for 20 percent of the firm's $14.1 billion 1999 revenues.

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