Private surveys of purchasing managers showed both factory and service activity holding steady in May.
The activity is a personal service activity in which you materially participated for any three preceding tax years.
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For a business to really do social media right, like any other marketing or customer service activity, it takes a significant investment.
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An activity is a personal service activity if it involves the performance of personal services in areas like health, law, engineering, architecture, accounting, actuarial science, performing arts and consulting.
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German service sector activity also moderated in June according to a PMI report out Tuesday, leaning heavily on sentiment across the region.
Earlier on Wednesday figures from the Institute of Supply Management showed that service sector activity in the US dropped to a record low in November.
"The first fall in service sector activity for two years raises the likelihood that the UK economy is sliding back into recession, " said Chris Williamson, chief economist at Markit.
The service then tracks activity and presents the data in charts and analytics like those shown below.
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The seasonally adjusted HSBC Service Sector Business Activity Index fell to 51.4 in March from 54.2 in February.
Markit's preliminary index measuring service and manufacturing activity for the currency bloc fell to 47.3 in February, below expectations of 48.5.
But black hat hackers may stay away from the tool for fear that using a cloud service for illegal activity could allow law enforcement to track their behavior.
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In addition to simple notification, the activity streams data could also include payloads of information that could be used by the device or the cloud-based service to perform activity.
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At the same time it was reported that the ISM New Orders Index also plunged substantially, from 64.1 in March to 52.7 in April, not encouraging for service sector business activity for the next few months.
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It also reports weak service and manufacturing sector activity, and falling prices in weak housing markets.
There have been few more solid signs of recovery, although one index published this week suggested that activity in service industries was expanding for the first time since August.
Despite reporting the first fall in new business for six months, the index suggested Scottish service providers continued to expand activity solidly and at a slightly faster pace than their goods-producing counterparts.
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However, the ISM Non-Manufacturing Index, which measures activity in the service sector (accounting for 80% of the jobs in the private sector), fell from 54.3 in July to 51.5 in August, and was ignored.
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Charges have been brought against six service members, and investigations into activity at that prison continue.
Separate figures suggested a sharp rise in activity in the US service sector.
She also conceded she had written a case study at college discussing Napster, another service shut down because of illegal activity.
Internet service providers can theoretically see criminal activity in action, and increasingly, they are being asked to act on that intimate knowledge of our online activities.
The category of cyber crime includes fraudulent online shopping activity, computer software service fraud, computer misuse crime, offences linked to computer viruses and spyware and computer hacking.
Kevin Cavanaugh, VP, Business and Technical Strategy, IBM Collaboration Solutions, said that there will be native activity stream applications on mobile devices and tablets that will communicate with a cloud-based service that does the aggregation and helps figure out which activity streams are important to you.
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Socialcast provide a service with a strong focus on building activity streams into the fabric of the organization.
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The service serves up goofy little trophies for your activity, some number of which require no effort whatsoever (think: "BookLover, " which you get for buying a Kobo reader).
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The investigation was triggered when banks noticed frequent cash transfers from several accounts and filed suspicious-activity reports with the Internal Revenue Service, a law enforcement official told the Associated Press.
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Service businesses showed a larger improvement, while export activity was slightly worse than the previous figures.
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