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Of the two largest directory services, one is looking to a name change and the other to new capital in order to survive decreasing revenue and interest from consumers.

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Time was, only strong man competition entrants would exert themselves to tear up phone directories for Now publishers themselves are this month twisting their books and businesses in to new …

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