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The online identity race is just beginning

  • Monday, January 30, 2012

The race to lock up the identities of web users and thereby get access to their data is accelerating.

Everyone wants to be an identity platform: Google, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn have all recently made moves to corner the market. And the race to lock up the identities of web users -- and thereby get access to their data and the potential benefits it brings -- is only accelerating.

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