Liu said that while testing the Buy With Friends feature, Facebook has found that more than 50% of test users chose to share a purchase they made on the social network with their friends.

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The people that develop the ideas, buy the ideas, and ultimately, the people that engage with our ideas, pass them along, buy our products and of course, talk about them with their friends.

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Libous and his wife entered a partnership in 2005 with longtime friends and political supporters in Binghamton to buy rental property in Florida.

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The big question is whether people will actually buy gifts, or whether they will simply use Facebook to communicate with friends and family.

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Launched in 2011, Origin acts as a distribution system, where customers can buy, download and manage EA video games as well as chat with friends about them.

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He owns 105 different cards, trades obsessively with his friends and is several allowances' in debt after borrowing heavily to buy a few sought-after cards.

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And the price of gold, or the politics in Washington, have no impact on whether or not Shanghai locals are going to buy smartphones and go to Baidu to search, and Sina and Tencent sites to maintain relationships with friends.

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"People who can't afford to buy yet will live in a loft or apartment downtown and rent a house in the Hollywood Hills with friends as a weekend place, " explained Smith.

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To buy benefits and protect yourself from cash flow problems, you need a much bigger cash cushion than friends with steady paychecks.

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