They fought off an attempt to open a betting shop at South Horizons, for fear that working-class gamblers would invade.

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The Costa Coffee chain, part of Whitbread which also owns Beefeater, Brewers Fayre and Premier Inn, wants to open a shop in an empty Victorian building in King Street.

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The chain is part of Whitbread, which also owns Beefeater, Brewers Fayre and Premier Inn, and wants to open a shop in an empty Victorian building in King Street.

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The operations can be quite profitable, with income approaching six figures for iOS 6 alone, so it's likely that we'll see businesses open up shop under different domains in an attempt to continue to collect.

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At a trendy coffee shop in the French Quarter, nearly every table has an open laptop computer on it.

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As the European Commission noted in a lack-of-progress report on services trade last July, an Austrian baker would have to apply for eight different licences to open a shop across the border in Italy.

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The globalization of our economy means that businesses can now open up a shop, employ workers and produce their goods wherever an Internet connection exists.

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He believes the next 24 months will be crucial in determining if the cloud becomes an open area in which most of the value goes to customers or a closed shop where the vendors reap most of the benefit.

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