Today, a single Web page can contain computer code from dozens of different ad companies or tracking firms.

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Now, school reorganisations will be dealt with only by local politicians under a new statutory Code which must be followed, as opposed to the current ad hoc arrangements.

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In a recent article, Joseph Turian observes that crowdsourced labor is already being used by many companies to analyze and code retail-store surveillance footage for customer visitation patterns, or by ad and marketing agencies to perform granular sentiment analysis and do keyword research, writing, editing and tagging images.

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MIAMI, Florida and BARCELONA, Spain - Feb. 27, 2012 - At the IAB Annual Leadership Summit and Mobile World Congress, Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq: ADBE) today unveiled the industry's first fully integrated video technology platform, code named Project Primetime, to enable smooth, TV-like experiences for ad-supported videos across Web-connected devices.

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Changes in the tax code, tighter federal regulations on entertainment practices and the overall decline in print-ad sales have also had an effect.

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