Dyer oversees a small team that shoots television spots that air on the Freedom Channel, an Afghanistan-specific American Forces Network channel, and helps run an FM radio station.

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While the unemployment gap for veterans is still wide elsewhere, at Starbucks the military community is growing, thanks in large part to the Starbucks Armed Forces Network (AFN).

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But it opens the network up to breaches and forces companies to figure out how to monitor and secure devices that they don't own.

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That would, of course, only be true if two conditions apply: First, the people who own the fiber optic network are willing to have our armed forces utilize their cable.

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America operates a spy network there and recently launched a special-forces commando raid from its base in nearby Djibouti to free an American citizen from Somali brigands.

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Nasdaq is also battling competitive forces at home, including an upstart Kansas City electronic network known as BATS Trading, which has siphoned some 15% of the matched and routed orders from Nasdaq in its own listed shares.

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