Neither company has a stake in trendy social network Facebook, or the advertising dollars that might someday flow from it.

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We see early examples of this, from catching fraud in financial transactions, to debugging and improving the hiring process in HR: and almost everybody already pays attention to the massive flow of social network information concerning them.

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New technologies promise not just big improvements in local efficiency, but also the further and potentially bigger gains that flow from an infinitely denser network of connections, electronic and otherwise, with the developed world.

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Sprint's latest financials show that while the network is slowly stemming the flow of cash from its veins, it's not quite there in terms of turning a profit.

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With any luck, within a decade, that enthusiasm will translate into a change in the the flow of cargo in and out of North America, and give Michigan a new place in the world transportation and logistics network.

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