Empowered buyers have information at their fingertips to check a price, read a product review, or ask for advice from a friend right from the screen of their smartphone.

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Within the last two years young people have become adept at using the Internet as a tool to obtain information on everything from the lowest price for a popular CD to information about various colleges and universities.

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The kiosks displayed the minimum and maximum price paid for soyabeans at 60 mandis, updated once a day, along with agricultural information and weather forecasts.

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"There is a tremendous amount of expansion, " said Tom Kloza, chief oil analyst at the Oil Price Information Service, speaking of projects at existing facilities.

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