European scientists have turned on the first part of a web-based database of information to help them cope.

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Six years ago, Mike Arrington announced CrunchBase, a free, web-based database about startups and the venture capital firms that invest in them.

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An example is a business with a high-traffic, database-based web site.

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This may mean that you use low-cost Web-based services to provide order taking, accounting, e-mail services, database management, or a hundred other functions that are central to the operation of your business.

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Last month on the CrunchBase blog, SiSense revealed CrunchAnalytics, its Web-based, free analytical platform built on top of the CrunchBase database.

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The database Transparency Labs, meanwhile, is launching a free web-based service that promises to translate every contract issued by America's largest corporations and financial institutions into readable, ninth-grade-level text.

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Jeremy Barbera, the chief of MSGI, claims to have pioneered the practice of database marketing for the live entertainment business back in the 1980s and originated web-based ticketing in the 1990s.

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Suncalled the acquisition a further investment into the future of Web-based computing, to be pioneered by vendors like Oracle, with its new Sun-based Business Online database outsourcing service.

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