In 2012, they are looking to create virtual trade shows to allow small businesses to demonstrate their capabilities and wares.

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Virtual trade shows and webinars ranked higher.

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Increases in crop production and productivity, together with virtual-water trade, will mitigate the regional inequities of availability.

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MTGox, on which most bitcoin trading takes place, was overwhelmed earlier this week by the amount of people who joined the exchange to trade the virtual cash.

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The selling frenzy began as Bitcoin's main exchange, MTGox, struggled to keep up with the volume of trade in the virtual currency.

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The last time this happened was when global trade came to a virtual standstill in 2009.

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About 80% of these virtual water flows relate to the trade in agricultural products, while the remainder is related to industrial product trade.

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The tightening of America's trade rules has resulted in a virtual standstill in mining in the volatile eastern part of the country, until recently the source of rare metals used by American manufacturers.

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In one virtual galaxy, players build, fight, and trade, joining together to form "corporations" to gain control over sections of the huge starscape.

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The ambition was to develop centres to become a 'virtual Wales' offering, a focal point for international trade, inward investment and tourism.

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Unless people start living in virtual buildings, there will always be plenty of bricks and mortar to trade.

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