Having the ability to automatically combine any source of data and compare it to live network flows makes many more things possible too.

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Our story chronicled how Glushkov, serving as Aeroflot's chief financial officer, redirected the airline's cash flows into a network of Russian and Swiss financial companies he owned together with Berezovsky.

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In the world of the internet, operators are looking at ways of marrying up the algorithms that find the shortest path through a network and those that control the speed with which information flows.

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He said that after CSC implemented a companywide social network, the ambient awareness created by activity stream like information flows helped current processes work better.

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It was a sophisticated financial network, ideal for getting money out of Russia, facilitating financial flows around the world, minimizing taxes and avoiding scrutiny.

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The nodes in the network are the people and groups, while the links show relationships or flows between the nodes.

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The resuming of network spending once 4G licenses on the mainland are issued, possibly later this year, could put pressure on cash flows once again.

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