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19 Sep 08

Chris Patten: Opponents of globalisation are hypocrites | World news | The Guardian

With the world's money markets in turmoil, globalisation is a dirtier word than ever. It is blamed for destroying communities and widening the rift between rich and poor. But, argues Chris Patten, its opponents are hypocrites - free trade is still the best option.

www.guardian.co.uk/...globalisation.globaleconomy - Preview

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12 Sep 08

Ben Goldacre: The food supplement industry's stifling of debate is far from democratic | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

Nothing could be more anti-democratic or stifling to debate than using money, law and power to regulate what can be discussed, and yet those who do it have the gall to represent themselves as the outsider, the little man, concerned with the medicine of the people. In reality they behave like nothing more than commercial entities.

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29 Jun 08

Building a Software Company

Very interesting blog written by an entrepreneur software developer.

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01 Apr 08

Motorola insider tells all about the fall of a technology icon - Engadget

  • In researching the myriad claims raised in this letter -- which we believe to be true -- we also discovered a number of other unsettling things about Motorola's corporate past in the last five years, such as certain gross corporate excesses demanded by Zander and his inner circle (like a small fleet of extravagant private jets, where most companies that size might only have one, if any), or the fact that Motorola's current CEO, Greg Brown, is so technologically out of touch he refuses to use a computer for communications, and has all his email correspondences printed by his secretary and replied to by dictation.
  • Many close to Geoffrey believed Ed Zander worked him to death, putting the pressure of the fate of the company in his hands. [That was certainly the buzz around the industry at the time. -Ed.] I took his untimely death in 2005 very hard, and knew that the company would head downhill in the aftermath. On a personal note, Lynne, his wife blamed the company for his passing. She committed suicide soon after.
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