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...this isn't your kids' social network. While Facebook became the darling of Silicon Valley in June 2007 when it created a completely open platform for developers - who quickly launched hundreds of thousands of applications - LinkedIn's plan is to carefully and slowly vet everything that goes onto its platform. "We don't want zombies and werewolves and all that," said Reid Hoffman, the brilliant entrepreneur who founded LinkedIn in May 2003, during a particularly bleak part of the dotcom meltdown. He told me that if his social network offered 60 applications a year from now, "we'd be very...
...Japan's other mega-banks, avoided damage caused by the subprime crisis, but its stock portfolio is now taking a hit as the Nikkei and Tokyo Stock Price Index (Topix) continue to fall and wipe value from its balance sheet. One credit analyst estimates that since the end of June, the total stock value held by the top three banks has dropped by $56 billion, signaling that other banks are clearly at risk...
...very strong personality. He does not follow his colleagues,” he said. Harvard Law School has a number of connections with Brazil including an exchange program with the Brazilian University, Fundacao Getuilio Vargos. Well-known, Harvard Law professor, Roberto M. Unger also took leave in June 2007 to advise Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula de Silva...
...through its five-year experimental phase, regardless of the number of students who sign up. “We expect it to be popular among alumni, and we expect them to show their support,” said Kagan, who oversaw a five-year capital campaign that ended in June and raised over $476 million. “I’m hopeful it’ll work really well, and that we’ll find whatever extra money we’ll need for it.” Jessica S. Budnitz, administrative director of the Child Advocacy Program...
...Reed's comments echo the words of Mark McKinnon, who was McCain's chief media strategist until June, when he dropped off the campaign because he decided he didn't want to participate in attacking Obama. Writing for the website the Daily Beast, McKinnon defended McCain's general election strategy. "I know that Steve Schmidt and his colleagues have run a very good campaign and have taken McCain further than he had any reasonable right to, given the political climate," said McKinnon. "And by the way, don't tell the press, but the election ain't over...