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Wall Street's Collapse Delivers An Overdue Wake Up Call To Startups Today Lehman is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, and Merrill Lynch is being bought for chicken feed by Bank of America.The Wall Street sky is falling. but what does that mean to tech companies, and particularly t [..]
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‘Child protection’ database slammed as plod data mine Troubled kids’ pasts open to investigators
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On the Headaches of MMO Billing Structure [Economics] Gene Hoffman, CEO of Vindicia (a billing and fraud protection company), has some words of wisdom regarding the headache that is billing and payment for MMOs — be they the more 'traditional' subscription model or the free to play model. Obviously, there are benefits and downsides th [..]
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Gordon Freeman receives crowbar, will defend raging Hadron Filed under: Culture, PC, First Person Shooters
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