After college, he got a job as regional manager at a biometric mobile payment firm start-up firm, Pay By Touch, and moved to Chicago with the company.

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Any professional service that does not require physical interaction (or pay for very high touch service), and which is complex enough to benefit from more than a phone call, is a good candidate.

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The marketing group said it believed that the service could be made to pay, and Mr Chicken has been in touch with the Scottish Executive, the Scotland Office and the Northern Ireland Office to try to salvage the service.

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He might be of more use to the Indonesian police, who say Mr Hambali was in touch with terrorists in Indonesia, and transferred some money that may have been used to pay for the Marriott bombing.

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