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Pirates of Silicon Valley — [VIDEO]

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iPad’s iOS 5 vs. Windows 8 for tablets — [VIDEO]

Analysis.

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Google is a playground run by pranking adolescents. — [LINKS]

–> Read the story on how Google went bidding for the Nortel patents. Are these Mountain View people serious? RELATED: More on Google‘s take on patents.

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Roger McNamee on today’s information technology opportunities — [VIDEO]

RELATED: Apps vs. the Web. Beware, the sound of this CNBC video is weak: Post-mortem of past technology predictions: SOMEWHAT RELATED: – Technology Is The New Smoking.

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Paul Allen on 60 Minutes — [VIDEO]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IM0SvIiMI4

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MicroSoft stole BetFair’s marketing idea. — [PHOTO]

- June 2000, BetFair paraded the streets of central London with a coffin in a mock-funeral, to mark “the death of the bookmaker”. – September 2010, MicroSoft employees celebrated a mock iPhone funeral, to commemorate the launch of Windows Phone … Continue reading

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Paul Allen on Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer during MicroSoft’s inception — [LINK]

Riveting. Paul Allen’s memoir (IDEA MAN) is out April 19, 2011.

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Nathan Myhrvold on geo-engineering to combat global warming

Great interview on CNN — video. He also talks about “investing in inventions”.

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A senior exec fired from MicroSoft… hired one week later by Google… and who is dumping every MicroSoft software for their Google equivalent…

Thanks Microsoft, Hello Google He was in charge of PR towards the developers at MicroSoft (“evangelism“). Does now the same at Google.

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Is MicroSoft trying to build a prediction market platform using bricks?

LinkedIn group on prediction markets: Prediction Market Engines/Framework/Platform I would like to know if there is any ready to use Prediction Market: *Engines? *Framework? *Platform? Basically building blocks which you can reuse to launch a PM service online. Any information … Continue reading

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