With widespread adoption of the internet and social media, the timing is right for this to be a really powerful platform.

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With the widespread adoption of the mobile phone, especially in the developing world, we saw an opportunity to leverage our technology and significantly lower the cost of money transfer.

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It remains a step forward for mobile payments in a country that has had very few options to start with, but we'd only anticipate widespread adoption once there's a much wider selection of devices and banks.

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The widespread global adoption of social networking coupled with the growing pervasiveness of smart devices are causing a tectonic shift in online news consumption.

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Professional video applications are growing more powerful than ever before, with 2K video enjoying widespread use and full-frame 4K video already gaining adoption in high-end production environments.

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Beyond risk assessment, companies outside of TARP also implemented numerous changes indicating that good governance had become synonymous with the practices the government had mandated under TARP, such as the widespread adoption of clawbacks and reductions in perquisites, tax-gross-up payments, golden parachutes and supplemental retirement plans.

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With the networking means largely already established by savvy social networking sites, the only thing holding back the widespread adoption of the crowdfunding concept has been uncertainty regarding restrictions on who can commit capital to a new business venture.

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