They'll go on to bundle in content, their Microsoft Network, financial transactions, travel services, everything.

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StarCite had far more financial services clients than Active Network, which had a lot of technology clients, he added.

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Cat's formula for success in China--a broad sales and service network, supported by financial services, and remanufacturing of used equipment--has worked so well that it is now being taken to other markets, including Russia and India.

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For Patton, who works for a financial services company near Boston, social network scraping is only a hobby.

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Epstein said he thought financial services firms could use it for research while Vikram Mehta, CEO of Blade Network Technologies, said he expects hedge funds could become big users of the technology.

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In December, USAID announced a partnership with the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women and leading cellular network operator Millicom International S.A. to launch an innovative project to bring mobile financial services to women entrepreneurs throughout Tanzania, Rwanda and Ghana.

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