The California Stock Exchange is already doing business in a variety of ways, offering dozens of different services to small issuers.

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Over the years, that has meant that we are offering many different kinds of services.

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The SITW community is already active because today's launch comes at the end of a six-month beta trial, which enabled 500 businesses, offering more than 140 different services, to sign up, try out and test the platform.

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Only now are Korean brokers beginning to mimic American firms, by offering specialised services, and charging different prices to different sorts of customer.

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In some ways, Web.com is not different than dozens of other firms offering these services.

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Other ads targeted a different demographic, offering SAT and GRE prep services for students hoping to test into schools overseas.

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But soon we moved on to weather and sports and by the time we thought about them again, it was a different plant in a different city, and the state was offering dislocated worker programs, readjustment and retraining services, and skills workshops.

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