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FreePint Newsletter

Issue 265
20th November 2008

In this issue of the FreePint newsletter, we focus on using and managing information - using new environments to help extend your business and information networks as well as managing structured data more efficiently on the web

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Help with tricky information questions and problems:

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Monthly magazine review business information products.

This month: VIP’s expert reviewers take a look in depth at two of Bureau van Dijk’s key company financial and ownership databases, FAME and AMADEUS.

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Articles, reports and tools, and a monthly magazine, to give you practical help with information skills.

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