Justin Bieber recently made the leap into the financial-services world, endorsing a prepaid debit card.
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Some groups see an opportunity to put in place a markets stability regulator and to level the playing field between the regulated and non-regulated sides of the financial services world.
Over In Prague, Serbia, who are without the services of World No.1Novak Djokovic, got off to a bad start against the Czech Republic as Tomas Berdych cruised to a straight-set win over Victor Troicki 6-2 6-1 6-2.
If we make biofuels in a way that still lets us be able to have the food that the world demands and to have other environmental services that the world demands, biofuels are going to be a niche product.
Postal services are being liberalised around the world as new services such as e-mail, fax and data transfer have begun to erode traditional markets.
The U.S. military is the most extensive user of privatized military services in the world.
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There are at least a dozen peer-to-peer sharing services in the world, reported GigaOm.
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The ITRs are designed to ensure interoperability of telecoms equipment and services across the world.
Some costs could be defrayed by using satellite capacity to spread local services around the world.
Meanwhile, Yahoo and Google are busily scoring deals to embed their services with the world's biggest carriers.
Postal services are being liberalised around the world and new electronic services such as e-mail are developing fast.
In that world services like YouTube might need be no more than curation overlays and CDNs for popular content.
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We remain the number one exporter of goods and services in the world.
Systel already provides emergency mobilising systems to 43 fire services around the world.
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"We want to democratize the hedge-fund business, " Thierry Gosset, the administrative director for financial services of the world's second-largest retailer, told Bloomberg News.
While EasyPaisa, M-Pesa, and other such services around the world are significant developments, some bigger industry players are looking at the global picture.
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American Express is primarily engaged in the business of providing travel related services, financial advisory services and international banking services throughout the world.
"We want to democratize the hedge fund business, " Thierry Gosset, administrative director for financial services of the world's second-largest retailer, told Bloomberg News.
Now, finally, as one of the largest purchasers of goods and services in the world, the United States government will lead by example.
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They have dozens of deals with internet services around the world.
Bharat Biotech sells a single dose of its hepatitis B vaccine for 20 cents and Bharti Airtel provides one of the cheapest wireless telephone services in the world.
At the SIFMA securities conference June 15, two panels on social media and financial services revealed a world of confusion, contradiction, wishful thinking, denial and regulators lagging behind developments.
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He first looked to HR and Finance as the next groups to turn to in order to reduce costs, while improving the ability to deliver those services around the world.
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As the largest single purchaser of goods and services in the world, the United States Government bears a responsibility to ensure that taxpayer dollars do not contribute to trafficking in persons.
When I came back out, we got his plastic bag of clothes and cane together and gave the nice World Services employee a tip to take him downstairs to wait for the shuttle.
The Pentagon is the biggest purchaser of cutting-edge technologies and technical services in the world, but as I will demonstrate, its myopic approach to industry minimizes the economic benefits of spending all that money.
But defence analyst Howard Wheeldon said the RAF and Navy had provided a fantastic service over so many years and most search and rescue services around the world remain in the hands of government or military.
The program, launched in September 2001, focuses on reform of electric power markets, the geopolitical consequences of newly emerging global natural gas markets, energy services for the world's poor, and managing climate change and other environmental consequences of modern energy systems.
Before serving as mayor, Mr. Itta held a variety of project management and development positions for Arctic Slope World Services and the Arctic Slope Consulting Group from 1998 to 2004, where he was involved in the engineering and coordination of the North Slope Village water and sewer construction program.
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The state-funded Met Office, which bills itself as "one of the top two national weather services in the world, " is in overdrive, sending extra weather balloons into the atmosphere to try to get a read on what's to come and providing daily updates to government officials and other Olympics honchos.
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