Mr. CHRIS SACCA (Google): We think San Francisco can be a great test bed for the development of new applications, services, local advertising, all kinds of really cool community-based services.

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One of her first actions was to introduce the poll tax or community charge, a flat-rate tax for local services which was based on individuals rather than the value of the property in which they lived.

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He says there were plenty of ideas about how to improve local services, such as a community-based gynaecology service with a specialist and a scanner.

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The search for local products and services continues to shift away from the Yellow Pages and online directories and search engines to location-based services via a plethora of mobile apps.

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This makes Locu a powerful platform for the creation of a host of services that will complement and become value-added to already existing local-based businesses like Yelp and Foursquare.

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Michigan Bell Telephone, the Court unanimously upheld an FCC regulation requiring providers of local telephone services to make the entrance facilities of their telecom networks available to competitors at cost-based rates.

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Severely strained government budgets have convinced state and local governments across the United States to embrace a new form of performance-based investments in energy efficiencyoffered by energy services companies, or ESCOs.

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WhitePages, the Seattle-based provider of business and personal contact information, is one such firm that views mobile and local services as its future.

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Waze Chief Executive Noam Bardin is friends with Josh Williams, the former chief of location-based social network Gowalla acquired by Facebook who now leads Facebook's local-services efforts.

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