There are stories of people protecting their own contacts, nothing to really gain by sharing work together.

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All three companies could perhaps gain from sharing the basics of a vehicle engines, transmissions and so on allowing more new models to be introduced faster around common platforms, a big edge in a highly competitive market.

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Instead, it is critical to gain a deep understanding of the online female demographic (who is sharing what, why and what their interests are) and cultivate meaningful relationships.

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First, the norms around elite educational access are changing, and some of the Ivy walls are coming down with regard to sharing access to elite institutions and academics. iTunesU allowed users to gain access to video and audio coursework years ago, and this trend has been perpetuated by the Khan Academy, and other networks that create and aggregate content.

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This is a conflict of interest that provides a huge incentive for Goldman to take advantage of its superior position of knowledge by sharing as little information as possible with either counterparties or clients in order to gain a trading advantage that, it turn, promotes inefficient and volatile or disorderly markets.

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