"How would you feel if you were a teen and your mom listened in to every single conversation, " says Neil Bernstein, an adolescent psychologist in Washington, D.

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With the fundraising has come higher debt-to-equity ratios, which will likely soar to an average of almost 50% for the three companies this year, Bernstein Research senior analyst Neil Beveridge said, from around 20% in 2007.

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The firm has seen several directors resign in 2011, including chief executive Neil Gillis in February, its chairman David Bernstein in August and its finance director Marc Lombardo, who is due to leave in December.

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