The National Police Agency controls the country's traffic lights and adapts them according to drivers' complaints rather than extensive data offered by traffic planners, Moon explained.

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When raids and community encounters are offered, traffic and revenue spike to about 5 times the baseline.

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But recent reports suggested it could all have been an inspired marketing campaign, with specific claims suggesting Thom's website could not have coped with the reported traffic and that free CDs were offered to boost interest.

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Mr Dotcom's lawyers reject the charges, saying the site simply offered an online storage service and that the majority of its traffic was "legitimate".

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Mr Dotcom's lawyers deny the charges saying the site simply offered an online storage service and that the majority of its traffic was "legitimate".

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Each month, he and colleagues survey 4, 000 real estate agents across the U.S. The topics: what kind of foot traffic those agents see, the price movement of listed properties, incentives offered by home builders, overall inventory of homes on the market and the amount of time needed to close deals.

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For instance, Wal-Mart's analysis of Twitter traffic helped convince it to increase the amount of "Avengers" merchandise it offered when the superhero movie came out last year and to introduce a private-label corn chip in the American Southwest.

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