"The Internet revolution meant that we created a global network where any digital entity could connect and exchange information with any other, " he said.

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Although one company - ITV plc - now owns all the regional stations based in England and Wales, some aspects of the regulatory system date back to the days when each station in the network was a distinct entity.

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The International Board of Partners can only kick the offending firm out of the network when that separate legal entity, part of the loose confederation of member firms that equals the global brand, does something bad.

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The Palas Athena Association was nominated as the leading entity for this initiative and to create a network of institutions to multiply and mobilize the society.

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Snob--one component of a Russian media entity that also includes a website, a social network and live events, all open only to paid members--is not, as you might guess, a celebration of wealth and status but a rather serious and highbrow forum for ideas and culture.

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It would eliminate the likelihood that any other entity would be able to develop or survive as a fourth network.

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The newly merged entity will build upon those initial products to further move the social network into e-commerce.

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Why should the new entity spend a great deal of money investing in the next generation network, when its customers have fewer choices?

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