As Sprint becomes stronger and brings more innovative services to the market, it will be good for Apple.

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The huge size of the North American cloud market seems like good news, indeed, for companies like Amazon Web Services and Rackspace.

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One could say a business magazine's calling is elsewhere, but I'd argue not, when a good third of the world is essentially out of the market for goods and services.

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What Mr Lilley heard was that voters thought that a party that had a philosophical preference for the free market and a smaller state could not be relied on to provide good public services.

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Even at its worst the open market is the best 'incentivisor' for innovation and good customer service in financial services.

BBC: Man looking at a falling graph

Companies like Getaround and Airbnb who operate in the collaborative consumption market use similar systems and for good reason, consumers are now familiar with these services and want to have as much information as possible, while sellers enjoy the stronger viewings and the potential of more sales that higher trust ratings deliver.

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The primary purpose of government is to protect the citizen and provide those services which would otherwise not be provided by the market or those which are considered universally 'good' such as healthcare, education, police and the military.

BBC: Man looking at a falling graph

That is not only good for consumers to keep track of all their purchases, but also presumably a bonanza for Slice to market products and services to its users.

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