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Celebrating 10 years of the euro?
"When the euro was launched there were plenty of people who thought it would crash and burn.Ten years on, its role as a global currency is secure, even if it hasn't achieved everything its founders hoped.Wednesday is...
The garage where it all began
70 Y Garage factory HP Palo Altohewlett packardthe historic garagewhere HP got startedAmerica restart your Ideas for 2050get into production idea to market1938 DAVE AND HIS WIFE LUCILERENTED ADDISON AVE FOR $45...
Sun to spend $1B to acquire MySQL, will compete with Oracle, Microsoft
"When discussing enterprise database installations worldwide, as of today, it will be impossible not to consider Sun Microsystems along with Microsoft and Oracle. This morning, Sun announced it has reached an agreement with MySQL -- which by some accounts may have become the...
Libel Lawsuit Filed Against iBrattleboro citizen journalism site
Chris Grotke and Lise LePage, co-founders and owners of iBrattleboro.com, a widely acclaimed citizen journalism site based in Brattleboro, Vermont, were sued on November 16 for libel based on a comment submitted by one of the site's users. The lawsuit, brought by Effie...
Topless swimmers make waves in Sweden
In Sweden sexuality as the new political weapon of choice"STOCKHOLM, Sweden - A group of Swedish women is making waves by taking their tops off at public swimming pools in a protest against what they call gender-biased rules on swim wear. About 40 women have joined the...
Google Goes Toe-to-Toe With Facebook
Well it was bound to happen sooner or later, and in this case it looks to be sooner. Instead of buying in and trying to take a piece of facebook's pie, internet giant Google is poised to take a giant chunk of the... 
Skype founders 'happy' £260m exit
"Skype co-founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis have said they are happy with their decision to step down from the company they sold to eBay in 2005. The move, which was announced yesterday, has forced eBay into a £590m writedown on the £2.1bn it paid for the internet...
BC website sells for $350 million to Disney
When my friend Graham Hill sold his TreeHugger.com for $10 million, I thought he had done pretty well. I mean - ten million smackeroos! By any standards that's a fortune on this planet. But today another BC boy...
A drive for global domination has put us in greater danger
"A drive for global domination has put us in greater danger Moral authority, which is our greatest source of strength, has been recklessly put at risk by this wilful president By Al Gore 05/24/07 "The Guardian" -- -- The pursuit of "dominance" in foreign policy led the Bush...
Pentagon Defends Internet Blockage
"Earlier this week, we posted about the US Military blocking certain sites online. Everyone from the blogosphere and the man on the street to Congressman Ed Markey and even YouTube's founders has complained about the decision. Representative Markey, who heads the House...
Rudy Giuliani v. Ron Paul, and Reality
"Rudy Giuliani made clear in Tuesday night's Republican presidential debate that he is not ready to let the facts get in the way of his approach to foreign policy. The most heated moment in the debate, which aired live on the conservative Fox News network, came when the...One dollar salary for Google's founders
The founders of number one search engine Google, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, in 2006 earned their salaries of just one dollar. The information was provided after the examination of specific documents. The two partners who were able to create the Internet giant starting with...
Updated: The buzz about nowpublic today
Here's a compendium of what the media world is saying about our partnership with AP: " Editor & Publisher: AP Joins Partner in New "Citizen Journalism" Project NEW YORK The Associated Press and NowPublic.com...Googlepealago:China Censorship Bad for Business
"Google's decision to censor its search engine in China was bad for the company, its founders admitted yesterday. Google, launched in 1998 by two Stanford University dropouts, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, was accused of selling out and reneging on its "Don't be evil" motto...
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