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Startups Tap Government Energy Research To Win Innovation Award - Capital - Portfolio.com
www.portfolio.com | Feb 10, 2012
As part of the Startup America initiative, the Department of Energy made it easier and cheaper for new businesses to license technology developed at its labs.

Dimitri B. Papadimitriou: Greece: How To Slow The Nosedive
www.huffingtonpost.com | Feb 9, 2012
The overall unemployment rate is now 20 percent; among youths, it's close to 40 percent, and expected to keep climbing. The damaged lives include 20,000 homeless, living in makeshift shelters during a miserably severe European winter, and an upswing in suicides and poverty.

Stephen Hester bonus: When populist stone-throwing is the right response | Politics | The Guardian
www.guardian.co.uk | Jan 30, 2012
Shareholders – that's us – have asserted themselves against the executives and their exorbitant rewards

Eurozone crisis: live blog | The World | International affairs blog from the FT – FT.com
blogs.ft.com | Jan 30, 2012
Gideon Rachman and his FT colleagues debate international affairs

The FBI Might Be Monitoring Your Social Networks - SocialTimes.com
socialtimes.com | Jan 27, 2012
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One Per Cent: FBI releases plans to monitor social networks
www.newscientist.com | Jan 25, 2012
Federal law enforcement officials have asked contractors to build software that would watch for signs of criminal activity

Obama Elevates Head of the SBA | Blog | Daily Dose | Entrepreneur.com
www.entrepreneur.com | Jan 13, 2012
The president raised the head of the Small Business Administration to a Cabinet-level position, and proposed streamlining the agency with five others.Get the...

Michael Geist: Digital Economy Strategy Is Government's Penske File
www.huffingtonpost.ca | Dec 1, 2011
The lack of movement on the digital economy strategy is the government's "Penske File" -- the source of considerable discussion and much "work," but thus far few tangible results. (For non-Seinfeld watchers, the Penske file has become synonymous for a non-existent work

What was Werritty doing meeting Sri Lanka’s regime? | World News Blog
blogs.channel4.com | Oct 9, 2011
On his last trip to Sri Lanka, Defence Secretary Liam Fox called on the country to properly investigate its actions at the end of the civil war. But what, blogs Channel 4 News Foreign Editor Ben De Pear, was Adam Werritty doing at Mr Fox's meetings with the regime? On his last trip to Sri Lanka,

Johnny West: Give it Back! Direct Citizen Oil Dividends in Iraq, Why Not?
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk | Sep 16, 2011
Direct oil dividends could target lots of economic and developmental goals -- redistribution, financial inclusion, poverty elimination, state cohesion, extending the tax base - a whole lot of things.