The attempt to harness small advertisers is also the latest move by Twitter to tap its base of more than 200 million registered users.

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An increasing number of small businesses and startups are recruiting virtual interns to harness the sheer horsepower and widespread talent easily accessed through remote work.

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"By then I had a small library of designs, and I was struggling to harness it, " she says.

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The Federation of Small Businesses in Scotland argued that the figures underlined the need to "harness the job creation potential of our smallest businesses".

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The San Francisco-based organization founded by Brent Schulkin organizes campaigns that harness the collective purchasing power of consumers to incentivize companies, big and small, to become more socially responsibile.

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Pfizer found that a drug designed to harness the immune system to fight cancer was not effective in treating non-small-cell lung cancer.

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For such wireless networks, Google has publicly supported the possibility of using small, inexpensive cellular devices, called "micro cells" that would be located at the access points and would harness the TV airwaves to broadcast the equivalent of a 3G or 4G wireless signal for devices within a quarter-mile radius.

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