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Episode 92: Educational and Galactic Profitability with Dr. Zarik Boghossian

Mike Michalowicz

Today Dr.Zarik Boghossian shares his personal story of being born in Iran and moving to the US, the hardships he faced because of his accent, having no money and how he moved on to successfully develop a software that does the flight navigation for the international space station. Also Available On. Show Summary. Zarik holds a B.S.

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

www.usatoday.com

Dubbed "collaborative consumption" — or "the sharing economy" — this movement represents the newly cemented intersection of online social networking, mobile technology, the minimalist movement and heightened penny-pinching brought on by lingering economic uncertainties. Julianna Iran, a tax consultant from Pasadena, Calif.,

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200.000.000 mobile users, for starters – Q&A with Viber CEO Talmon Marco

The Next Web

Viber is currently blocked or disrupted by Iran and Vodafone. I realize it’s important to be cross-platform, but wouldn’t it have been more beneficial for Viber to focus on a select few mobile operating systems and making sure the feature sets were consistent? Do you know if and where Viber is currently being blocked?

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Is social media good or bad for us? Yes.

Reid Hoffman

Caught in between, social media companies try to constructively engage with both the “right” and the “left” domestically while rooting out foreign influences from antagonistic nations like Russia and Iran. Our polarized environment encourages — and amplifies — partisan conflicts, and this inhibits social progress.

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Why I’m Doubling Down on the Twitter Ecosystem

Both Sides of the Table

Think of DataSift as turning the fire-hose into a cost-effective and manageable tap of running water. Or just the sheer power of people being able to self organize as they have done in Egypt, Iran or Tunisia. They know this because Twitter is social, open & asymmetric. Not so on Twitter. Twitter is inherently viral.

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