But the deeper question is how much does the abuse of the Like function undermine their value, and by extension the value of the search results based on them?

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"Adding Virgin Media to our large and growing European operations is a natural extension of the value creation strategy we've been successfully using for over seven years, " said Mike Fries, chief executive of Liberty Global.

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The video chat is only to other Playbook tablets, so it is of limited value unless you consider it as an enhanced extension of Blackberry instant messenger.

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Toby Hartwell, managing director of The Folio Society said he liked the idea of "recognising literature of enduring value" and it seemed a "natural extension" of the business.

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In the pages of this publication and elsewhere, many have posited that recalcitrant IT departments, hidebound by a history of rigid organization, have been a bottleneck to the adoption of new technologies and, by extension, the ability to distill business value from data.

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DirectBuy had no reason to object to a settlement that offered a two-month extension to existing customer memberships and nuisance-value fees to the lawyers.

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Rather than continuing to spend energy and investment on raw technology development, it created a program building on the innovations of others, providing then the true value add of integration, design and branding that has made each product extension a success.

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