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Megaupload founder joked about his ‘hacker’ past (AP)

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Megaupload founder joked about his ‘hacker’ past (AP)

AP - Two years ago, Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom joked in emails with his new neighbors in New Zealand about his bad-boy reputation before telling them his criminal past was behind him and he was coming to the country with good intentions.

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Google launches project for S.African businesses (AP)

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AP - Getting more small companies wired will help their businesses grow, and help their country fight unemployment, officials said Thursday as Google launched a project that makes it easy to showcase South African entrepreneurship on the Internet.

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Verizon Wireless to charge $2 for one-time payment (AP)

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AP - Verizon Wireless, the country's largest cellphone company, said Thursday that it will start charging $2 for every payment subscribers make over the phone or online with their credit cards.

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A Modest Proposal For Immigration: The $100,000 Green Card

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A Modest Proposal For Immigration: The $100,000 Green Card

Editor’s note : Guest contributor Scott Banister is an American serial entrepreneur and investor. He most recently co-founded Zivity with his wife, Cyan Banister , who is also a TechCrunch columnist. Permanent residence in the USA is a valuable asset that is enjoyed by most of you reading this article. Many potential immigrants...

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Facebook Acquires The Tech Behind WhoGlue, A Company That Sued It In 2009

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Facebook Acquires The Tech Behind WhoGlue, A Company That Sued It In 2009

Facebook has confirmed to us this morning that it did indeed acquire the Baltmore-based software firm WhoGlue earlier this month. WhoGlue builds social networking software for membership organizations (like college alumni networks, for example) and apparently had the fortuity to file a patent on something called  “Distributed personal relationship information management system and methods”...

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