While Groupon and LivingSocial have gotten much attention for their local deals services, flash sales have also been growing fast.

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The economic announcements out of the euro zone proved inconsequential today with Flash PMI figures for Services and Manufacturing in France, Germany and the entire Euro area coming in right in line with expectations.

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Among the products and services announced during VM World using flash memory were the following.

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"Free ISPs are not going to be just a flash in the pan if they can create value-added services" and can keep surfers coming back to their websites, says Matthew McGarvey, regional Internet analyst for International Data Corp. in Hong Kong.

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To the extent 2011 sees lower year-over-year growth than originally forecasted, we would expect to see that demand pushed into 2012, because of the fundamental drivers, from the standpoint of expansion of network services, the cloud and new applications for NAND flash memory in PCs will continue to evolve and drive the industry.

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Flash forward to last Tuesday's hearing in the Senate Armed Services Committee.

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Mr Dobrowolski, who came to Sierra Leone in 2008, started Flash because he was frustrated at the costly, shoddy car-hire services in Freetown.

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