OpenFeint seed investor Peter Relan is fed up with his former creation's lack of existence -- the open source software once powered the social integration behind many mobile games.

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For large companies tend not to invest in job creation anyway: large corporate investment is more likely to mechanise a job out of existence than it is to create a new job.

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These mergers are being seen as a step towards the creation of global financial exchanges, a glint in the eye of anyone for whom the existence of the national bourse is as quaint as the existence of the national airline.

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