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The internet is everywhere, but the payoff is not

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Examining the uneven patterns of Internet economics.

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        cover image Communications of the ACM
        Communications of the ACM  Volume 55, Issue 8
        August 2012
        105 pages
        ISSN:0001-0782
        EISSN:1557-7317
        DOI:10.1145/2240236
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