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From Airbnb to TaskRabbit to Zimride, sharing is becoming big business

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By Todd Plitt, USA TODAY Neville Clubwala, a Taskrabbit worker in New York City, delivers cupcakes from Butter Lane bakery and champagne, to a recipient who received a promotion. Julianna Iran, a tax consultant from Pasadena, Calif., The nation is in a sharing mood — and start-ups are capitalizing on it.

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Why I’m Doubling Down on the Twitter Ecosystem

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Consider political campaigns that are judging voter reactions or the political pundits that like to comment on such data. Or just the sheer power of people being able to self organize as they have done in Egypt, Iran or Tunisia. But the applications are limitless. has now made these analytics available to the public.

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Out of the Crisis #21: Tomas Pueyo on the hammer and the dance, political polarization, and how the pandemic will affect the way we live and work

Startup Lessons Learned

How do we cut through the news in the disinformation campaign? And one of the first things that you saw is that you had daily cases being exported from Italy, especially from Italy but also from Iran but especially from Italy, to all the corners of the Earth. And so, I first started focusing on the Bay Area.