The European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) will pool information and skills to assist national police in cross-border cybercrime investigations.
Szakos said community groups' ability to pool information has transformed the political landscape.
By transferring accounts to a third company, Financial One's members can pool information.
For one thing, banking-secrecy and data-protection laws will make it fiddly for Credit Suisse and Winterthur to pool information about customers.
Other bright ideas include getting local firms to pool information on new markets and to work more actively on fixing problems such as shortages of skilled labour.
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Flickr's tagging technology, where people mark attractive photos and pool the information, may also be applied to dating.
And in a world where more and bigger is typically better, this vast pool of information seemed like a good thing.
Facebook search is drawing on a strange, limited pool of information consisting of whatever it is people have decided to post on Facebook.
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In Facebook's terms, the social graph is the name given to the collective pool of information shared between friends that are connected via the site.
The information pool consists of monographs, series, journals, grey literature and databases.
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Yahoo also has access to millions of consumers via email and their popular homepage, along with relationships and information on a vast pool of local merchants through its Yahoo small-business group.
Employees eager to expand their social media pool may think they are harmlessly exchanging information with co-workers and managers.
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The SEC staff is looking at requiring disclosure of post-trade information to show which dark-pool operator is executing which trades, according to people familiar with the matter.
The best ideas require information, not just inspiration, and this information should be drawn from a much wider pool of sector experience.
Through provisions in the Dodd-Frank Act the potential pool of whistle-blowers is expanded, even granting eligibility to individuals who provide publically available information.
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