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Reference: Microsoft, Facebook, & the Future

Bianca Bosker bianca@huffingtonpost.com | HuffPost Reporting Microsoft’s Cracked Windows: How The World’s Technology Juggernaut Lost Its Buzz And Became The ‘Underdog’ EXTRACT:  Its stranglehold on the desktop, while hugely profitable, helped turn Microsoft into an out-of-shape competitor focused on defending turf rather than scoring new hits. In seeking to maintain its dominance on the desktop, …

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Journal: WikiLeaks Next Round BANKS

WikiLeaks plans to release thousands of internal documents from a major U.S. bank in early 2011, Forbes magazine reported on Monday. “You could call it the ecosystem of corruption,” Assange told Forbes during an interview in London, but refused to provide details about the bank. MORE @ http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/article923432.ece?homepage=true Phi Beta Iota: Our hope for the …

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Review: Griftopia–Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America

Matt Taibbi 6 Star Game Changer….Maybe November 2, 2010 This is an extraordinary book, combining gifted insights and turns of phrase with serious research that has a point worth fighting for: Wall Street led by Goldman Sachs has ripped off the entire US economy, and they still have most people thinking that politics matters. It …

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Event: Regional events explore Public Engagement

Dear friends, I view the National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation (NCDD) as one of the most important groups supporting the emergence of democratic participatory wisdom to help societies evolve and thrive in the coming century. I want to encourage everyone in my U.S. networks to seriously consider attending one of NCDD’s budget-friendly one-day regional …

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Journal: Leveraging Local Entrepreneurs

Hisham Wyne Writer, columnist and armchair sociologist Posted: October 1, 2010 12:35 PM Social Entrepreneurs and Change in Dubai An event revolving around the UN Millennium Goals, TEDx Change Dubai, recently gathered three hundred participants at the creek side Dubai Chamber of Commerce. Melinda Gates, wife of billionaire philanthropist and once Microsoft overlord Bill Gates, …

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