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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. He wanted $5.5

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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! It’s a powerful concept.

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

Growthink Blog

Entertainments in all their wondrous forms – Movies, Video Games, Social Media and Networks (think LinkedIN, Facebook, Twitter). Korea, Iran, et al.), That stuff? Ideas and Innovations. Strategies. Or more prosaically, Brands. Global Best Practices. the modern world has become a perfectly competitive market in all of the best senses.

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

Both Sides of the Table

There are four named individuals in the story, each risking careers by publicly speaking up. Whether it’s for the leader of a network or the leader of the free world.” In addition to these fireable offenses he also clearly blocked women’s careers who resisted his overtures. If you like this topic you’ll love the book.

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Why many entrepreneurs come across as jerks

management.fortune.cnn.com

Apple ( AAPL ), of course, is a poster-child for this (dropping the word "computer" from its company name in 2007 to reflect the shift), and Yahoo ( YHOO ) and Research in Motion ( RIMM ) have found themselves at their own moment of truth. Standard Chartereds stock drops on Iran allegations. Join the Conversation. Most Popular.

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Soundbites from the future

Start Up Blog

Un-Social Networking: Martin Lindstrom of Brand Sense says we are suffering a little from digital emptiness. People are doing small scale, networked and highly responsive activities. They’re happy to facilitate revolution in Moldova, Iran, Egypt and Libya. Generation D don’t ‘network’. It’s about being there.

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