While speaking at the Economist’s Information Forum in San Francisco on Tuesday, Eric Schmidt, the executive chairman of Google, went one step further in calling for another important element that must emerge: a data “platform” for personal data in aggregate. “The way we create wealth is by creating platforms,” Schmidt said.
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President Daniel Ortega said the canal would be an alternative to the Panama Canal and would generate jobs for impoverished Nicaragua and other Central American countries.
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Prime Minister Antonis Samaras on Tuesday announced plans for setting up a “national hydrocarbon company” to prospect for natural gas and oil deposits in the Aegean and Ionian seas.
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The European Commission investigation into possible oil price manipulation extended beyond three major companies to a smaller niche trading house, while a Finnish refinery said it had been asked for information.
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Canipre, as a company, offers to track down people who are illegally downloading copyrighted material from record companies and film studios. According to their website, they have issued more than 3,500,000 takedown notices, and their work has led to multimillion dollar damages awards, injunctions, seizure of assets, and even incarceration.
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A woman who has carried out a high-profile campaign for the rights of people suffering from muscle disease Pompe is also a consultant for the pharmaceuticals firm making the drug, the Volkskrant reports on Tuesday.
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Though Libya has managed to restore oil production to pre-revolution levels of some 1.6 million barrels a day, the weakness of its government and the proliferation of armed groups have transformed the environment for international companies working in the oil-rich North African country.
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PayPal currently doesn’t have much of a relationship with the virtual currency Bitcoin, but that may soon change. The company’s president David Marcus seems to be very interested in the virtual currency, and says his company is “thinking about” potentially including it one day, according to a Bloomberg video interview published on Wednesday.
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The case before the High Court challenges patents owned by Myriad Genetics (2012 revenues: 6 million) on two genes known to cause breast cancer and ovarian cancer, known as BRCA1 and BRCA2. Myriad uses those patents to prevent anyone else from providing genetic tests to determine if a woman has these genes, and it charges ,340 for the test.
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Ernest Moniz was a paid adviser to a group founded by and working to advance the interests of Italian oil company Eni, according to personal financial disclosure forms filed in March.
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