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Online Toughies: The Cyber World’s Most Wanted Criminals

YoungUpstarts

Here’s a look at some of the names on every law-enforcement agent’s hit-list of online baddies to look out for. Iran isn’t well-known for its cyber skills, but this individual definitely placed them on the map. Nobody blames you for looking out for a Russian name on this list. Behzad Mesri. Nicolae Popescu.

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Bright Unveils A Data-Driven Approach To The Job Search, Raises $6M

techcrunch.com

Here’s the problem, as laid out by Goodman: The Internet has democratized the job application process, and that’s not entirely a good thing. Posting a listing is free, but if you want to unlock the name and contact info of a prospect, you’ll have to pay. More in Gadgets. Also on AOL Tech.

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Why Pseudonymity Is Such an Important Concept

Both Sides of the Table

Fred Wilson wrote a blog post yesterday called “Real Names” in which he talked about a commenter on his blog who preferred not to comment because he didn’t want to use his real name. If you want to have a public debate then at least have the decency to do it using your real name! Social networks are like Iran.

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Service Exports - Driving U.S. Startups and Small Businesses

Growthink Blog

Perhaps my favorite and why the great probability is that all of our children will live in a world far, far richer and more plentiful than ours – namely that best practices worldwide are visible and replicable to and for all. Korea, Iran, et al.), Global Best Practices.

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Why It’s Time for Les Moonves to Go — You Can’t Charm Your Way out of Sexual Misconduct

Both Sides of the Table

I just returned from a week’s vacation in the mountains where I had almost no Internet access but was aware that Ronan Farrow had published a damning sexual misconduct article about Les Moonves, the Chairman & CEO of publicly traded company CBS Corporation. If you like this topic you’ll love the book.

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Soundbites from the future

Start Up Blog

There are 5 senses, and we still can’t experience 3 of them on the internet – so we must complete the connection / transaction off line…. The internet is trying to mimic the real world. The internet is in every second pocket. They’re happy to facilitate revolution in Moldova, Iran, Egypt and Libya. GENERATION D (Digital).

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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

His name is Tomas Pueyo. Eric Ries : I had to do the math, and it's dangerous to do the math live, but I had to look up on Wikipedia the number of English-speaking internet users, which is about 1.1 It helped them to come to grips with what was happening and hold their leaders accountable for action and inaction. T omas Pueyo : Yeah.