Difficulties that everyday citizens (and voters) have with evaluating the merits of the most well-known financial services firms are multiplied when the challenge is to form a judgement on the long-term value provided by unknown, entrepreneurial firms who engage in financial transactions that are far removed from their own everyday lives.

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The collapse of unmetered services by well-known companies is having a knock-on effect.

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It is likely the most well-known and popular this category of services, which are also referred to as ubiquitous human computing in academic circles.

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Commerce is well known in the New York area for consumer-friendly services like weekend banking hours and coin-sorting machines.

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Yes, of course: the difficulty of measuring productivity in services, now most of the economy, is well-known.

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The BBC's Panorama programme learnt the youngster was well known to Kirklees social services and had been put on the "at-risk" register years before she disappeared.

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