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Newly unsealed documents show Steve Jobs' brutal response after getting a Google
In early March, 2007, as Google was expanding fast and furiously, one of its recruiters from the "Google.com Engineering" group made a career-ending mistake: She cold-contacted an Apple engineer by...
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This Is OUR Moment. It's Time To Realize OUR Power
It is Time for US to Reset The Net; Not To Ask For Our Privacy but to Take It Back. This is about freedom. When governments steal our data and invade our private lives, they change how we think, how
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Revealed: Apple and Google's wage-fixing cartel involved dozens more companies,
"British medieval ordinances of Bristol cobblers in 1364 state, 'Masters are forbidden to poach workers from other members of the craft.'" Back in January, I wrote about " The Techtopus" - an ...
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25 Really Engaging Images About Minimum Wage
Raising the minimum wage is a hot topic all across the country. Here's a ton of facts, all loaded into one really pretty set of graphics. Some are even animated! I cover this topic all the time, and
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Save the World, Work Less
Save the world, work less. That dual proposition should have universal appeal in any sane society. And those two ideas are inextricably linked by the realities of global climate change because there
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The Largest Private Employer In Afghanistan Is A B Corporation, And It's Growing
Afghanistan, an impoverished and often dangerous country that has been ravaged by decades of fighting, is not the first place an entrepreneur might go to build a thriving company, especially one ...
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Nasa-funded study: industrial civilisation headed for 'irreversible collapse'?
A new study sponsored by Nasa's Goddard Space Flight Center has highlighted the prospect that global industrial civilisation could collapse in coming decades due to unsustainable resource ...
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Paris bans cars, makes transit free to fight air pollution
Air pollution is about as romantic as wilted flowers, chapped lips, and corked wine, so the record-setting smog that has settled over the City of Love in the past few days is definitely dampening ...
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Save the World, Work Less
Save the world, work less. That dual proposition should have universal appeal in any sane society. And those two ideas are inextricably linked by the realities of global climate change because there
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The Rise of Anti-Capitalism
WE are beginning to witness a paradox at the heart of capitalism, one that has propelled it to greatness but is now threatening its future: The inherent dynamism of competitive markets is bringing ...
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The Aereo Case and the Future of Free Speech
Today's Supreme Court ruling about the future of Aereo is not about TV or cable or how much it should cost to watch Sunday Night Football. It isn't about cable costing $8 or $80 or $800. It is ...
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U.S. agency drops encryption tool over NSA backdoor concerns
The National Security Agency's vast spying and surveillance powers have already undermined trust in the United States government around the planet. And American businesses are losing billions as ...
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Time to stop following defunct economic policies
Can economists contr i bute anything useful to our understanding of politics, business and finance in the real world? I raise this question having spent last weekend in Toronto at the annual ...
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Puerto Rico considers legalizing marijuana and prostitution to jumpstart economy
After suffering eight years of recession, Puerto Rico is contemplating more than a hundred different proposals intended to jumpstart its sagging economy - including legal prostitution and marijuana
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LAPD Officers Removed Antennas from Police Cars in Black Areas to Disable
Los Angeles police officers removed antennas from police cars in several predominantly Black neighborhoods to disable the recording equipment and avoid being monitored while on duty, according to an
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This 32-Year-Old Florida Woman Is Dead Because Her State Refused To Expand
By Tara Culp-Ressler " This 32-Year-Old Florida Woman Is Dead Because Her State Refused To Expand Medicaid" Share: CREDIT: GoFundMe Charlene Dill, a 32-year-old mother of three, collapsed and died ...
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Oligarchy, not democracy: Americans have 'near-zero' input on policy - report
The first-ever scientific study that analyzes whether the US is a democracy, rather than an oligarchy, found the majority of the American public has a "minuscule, near-zero, statistically ...
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Hopkins strike is a PR disaster for Baltimore's biggest employer [Letter]
Having read Johns Hopkins Hospital President Ronald R. Peterson's recent commentary, it's easy to see why the institution is having problems striking a labor bargain with lower-level employees ( ...
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Lap Dancers, the CIA, Pay-offs, and BP's Deepwater Horizon
From his investigation for Channel 4 Television in the newly released film, Vultures and Vote Rustlers. There was CIA involvement through a company called Mega Oil. They were shipping in arms under
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Streetbank - Sharing in your Neighbourhood
Streetbank puts you in touch with your community, bringing neighbourboods closer and making the world a bit nicer. See members living within one mile, make requests on the community noticeboard ...
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The internet just changed: Net Neutrality is dead.
On the morning of January 30th, Fight for the Future joined 85 other organizations who delivered over 1 MILLION signatures demanding immediate action to restore net neutrality to the FCC offices in
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Biggest Strike In China's History Enters 6th Day: Police Arrested Organizers,
The largest strike in China's history has entered the sixth day, defying state attempts to repress workers struggling against economic and social injustice. Police arrested several organizers of the
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Weev Is Free
Andrew "weev" Auernheimer is set to be released from federal prison, following a federal appeals court decision to reverse and vacate his conviction and sentence. "I'm going to prison for ...
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No politics in space: Russian-American ISS crew become great friends
The International Space Station is an example of what Russia and the US can accomplish by working together, US astronaut Michael Hopkins told RT, adding that the cooling relations between Moscow and
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Heard off the Street: Economist touts employee-owned companies
Political economist and historian Gar Alperovitz was in Pittsburgh last week, promoting the idea of rebuilding communities through cooperatives, employee-owned companies and other economic models ...