These numbers show that Facebook can drive online sales just by harnessing trust between friends.
Consumers like the certainty that they can swap compatible files between friends and between systems.
Gift-giving between friends, for example, strengthens non-kin bonds as people choose friends who can reciprocate.
Tim did not disagree, but I think that was a moment between friends being recorded, frankly.
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The meeting was more like a chat between friends than a job interview, Lovell told The Observer.
Diplomats on both sides downplay differences, ascribing recent bitterness to the kind of sharp words exchanged between friends.
However, it could also be attributed to anything from an anti-Franco protest or simply a fun food fight between friends.
Richard Branson's new venture, Virgin Money USA, which was formerly Circle Lending, facilitates the transfer of money between friends and family.
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In other words, Correa's social ideology and his world of divisions between friends and enemies are likely to determine legal outcomes.
"Obviously there are some differences between us in the precise formulations and language, and that's going to happen between friends, " he said.
In Facebook's terms, the social graph is the name given to the collective pool of information shared between friends that are connected via the site.
Not only can those who sign up for PayPal shop at many of their favorite home improvement, retail and entertainment spots, but they can even transfer money between friends and family securely.
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And the thing about a leadership contest is it's not between enemies or foes, it's a contest between friends and perhaps we all would rather not be in a position of having to decide between friends but we have to make that decision.
Imagine, for a second, how finance began, with small loans within families and between trusted friends.
The idea is to create quick communication between close friends and family, both through photos and cross-platform instant messages.
"Steve and me talked about the future for England, the team, it was a good conversation between two friends about football, " said Benitez.
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Strained and iced down, its captured light and heat turned cool and comforting, like an intimate conversation between good friends just passing into memory.
Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's musical charts the turbulent relationship between three friends over three decades, starting in 1980 and travelling backwards in time.
What began as a startup between three friends looking for jobs within theater production has grown into a firm that currently has nearly 100 employees preparing to stage the largest Super Bowl broadcast.
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Of course, there is a difference between your friends being paid to endorse products (as in the story of the fictional vodka) and marketing campaigns that successfully target your friends (as coconut water apparently has with mine).
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"Between family and friends, we always have big groups of teenagers, " says Ms. O'Hara.
There is a difference between ones actual friends and ones media friends or content friends.
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Now, when I look back at this photo, I see nothing but contentment between two best friends.
The Berlin Wall once stood as a painful barrier between family and friends, a dark symbol of oppression and stifled liberties.
The proposal had exempted transfers between family and friends, and had explicitly banned the justice department from setting up a national gun registry.
The Manchin-Toomey measure would extend that to sales at advertised venues like gun shows and online, while exempting other transactions like those between relatives and friends.
Behavioral economists (and women) highlight the social utility of gift-giving: When well chosen, gifts help create a bond between spouses or friends or even casual acquaintances.
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On Wednesday, Sen Manchin said allegations by America's top gun lobby group, the National Rifle Association, that the proposal would require checks for sales and gifts between family and friends and lead to a national registry as "a lie".
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