Third, although the founders believed that the business model depended on hosting advertisements, police departments absolutely refused to have advertising hosted on the site.

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Trevor Lunn of the Alliance party, a former insurance agent, criticised the part of the legal profession that published advertisements "touting for business" for personal injury claims.

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Its second business, called Atlas, serves advertisements and sells tools that other agencies can use to design and track campaigns, and that website owners can use to make the most out of their inventory.

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The level of claims has risen as the result of claims management companies, which have used television advertisements and text messages to drum up business.

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He went into business part-time and started designing websites and banner advertisements for online clients.

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Reports have speculated that the photo service will include advertisements, as Twitter gears itself toward a more commercially viable business model and encroaches on areas formerly held by third-party developers.

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Knowing that most small business people would rather watch TV than log on to the Internet, Ma secured advertisements for Taobao on major TV channels.

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Google's ability to place small, targeted text advertisements next to internet-search results, and on other websites, meant that many of the business models thought to have been killed by the dotcom bust now rose from the grave.

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