According to the IPO Monitor database, 37 Internet companies have gone public since January 1997.

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Design and monitor database backup, archive and storage capacity.

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The security firm Lookout also launched an App Genome Project database to monitor which Android and iPhone apps might engage in malicious behavior.

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The tax would be used to pay for a database that would monitor and register gun sales.

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The new database, called the Global Security Risk Monitor, coupled with possible new legislation, could over time begin to knock the share prices of companies that do business with unsavoury regimes.

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To monitor compliance with these rules, the IRS and HHS are now building the largest personal information database the government has ever attempted.

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