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Facebook dealt blow in privacy fight
2015-09-23 13:38:32| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
A privacy activist's efforts to prevent Facebook from being able to share Europeans' data with the US are aided by Europe's highest court.
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How to win a (bowling) alley fight, Homestead style
2015-09-23 01:41:07| Auto Dealers - Topix.net
When the operator of Dadeland Dodge needed some political muscle to get a deal on 4.6 acres of taxpayer-owned property pushed through the Homestead City Council, he found a staunch ally in Jimmie L. Williams III. Williams, a bespectacled councilman and church pastor who sports trademark bow ties and - records suggest - may not live in the city he represents, became a fierce advocate of Jay Rivchin's proposal to build a Hyundai dealership on the site of a forlorn, long-shuttered bowling alley on U.S. 1. He worked tirelessly from the dais - and, it turns out, secretly behind the scenes - to ensure the public land sale went through without a hitch.
Pharmaceutical Greed Villain Martin Shkreli Will Fight the Whole Internet
2015-09-22 09:43:20| Biotech - Topix.net
Given that Big Pharma executives are mostly visible monsters with fangs and horns, they usually avoid the spotlight. But after raising the cost of a life-saving pill by 5,000 percent, Turing CEO Martin Shkreli is loudly telling the world to fuck off.
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Biotech stocks fall on Clinton vow to fight 'price gouging'
2015-09-22 01:11:01| Biotech - Topix.net
It was the one of the worst days of the year for the stock market performance of the biotech industry. Clinton's announcement on Twitter follows news that drugmaker Turing Pharmaceuticals hiked the price of a 53-year-old drug for a potentially deadly parasitic infection from $13.50 per pill to $750.
The problem is epidemic - and it is "unlawful," says the FCC. Here's how to fight back.
2015-09-21 23:45:14| Wireless - Topix.net
NEW YORK - Don't assume it is just a bad cellular signal when you are in a hotel or a convention center and you cannot create a personal hotspot on your phone. Something a lot more sinister may be at work.
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