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Venky's to own Blackburn Rovers

Venky's to own Blackburn Rovers: "The shares of Venky's India Ltd., is currently trading at Rs. 940 down Rs. 0.10 or 0.01% over the previous close.
Anuradha Desai, Venkys chairperson was quoted as saying that Venky's is the first Indian company to acquire a Premier League.
Blackburn Rovers’ Chairman John Williams further added that a series of meetings, including discussions with the Premier League, have followed an extensive due diligence process."

E-Mail's Carbon Footprint - Forbes.com

E-Mail's Carbon Footprint - Forbes.com: "According to the Guardian, each 'proper e-mail' creates 4 grams of CO2-equivalent emissions--equivalent to driving 40 feet."

WikiLeaks Founder on the Run, Chased by Turmoil

"Julian Assange moves like a hunted man. In a noisy Ethiopian restaurant in London’s rundown Paddington district, he pitches his voice barely above a whisper to foil the Western intelligence agencies he fears.

He demands that his dwindling number of loyalists use expensive encrypted cellphones and swaps his own as other men change shirts. He checks into hotels under false names, dyes his hair, sleeps on sofas and floors, and uses cash instead of credit cards, often borrowed from friends."

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Bihar’s tomorrow

"Speed dating takes on a literal meaning in Patna. People share auto-rickshaws like buses, like restaurant tables. They don’t know the person sitting next to them. Every day, several young people hop on to auto-rickshaws with no destination in mind, whispering into each others’ ears, doing things that couples do in backseats. They are strangers to the world. People can see. They don’t."

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Islamic law and democracy: Sense about sharia

"All the more reason for calm thinking about what sharia means, and the dilemmas it poses (see article, article). It can refer to many things, ranging from a pious way of life to a system of corporal and capital punishment, laid down in Islamic law but practised in only a few places. It can also refer to the ideas underpinning Islamic finance (which eschews interest)—and, most significantly for public policy, to a form of family law."

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Why social networks have grown so fast

"The most important reason for their phenomenal growth is something called the 'network effect'. Originally coined to describe the rapid spread of telephones, this states that the value of a communications network to its users rises exponentially with the number of people connected to it. This implies that the audience of a social network will grow slowly at first, then explode once it passes a certain point. Jeff Weiner, the chief executive of LinkedIn, which now has some 58m members, says it took the company 16 months to reach its first million users, whereas the most recent additional million came on board in only 11 days. Facebook has had a similar experience. It took almost five years to drum up its first 150m users, but just eight months to double that number"

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06.) Success Blog

07.) Expert Adware Spyware

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10.) Stupids Cupids

11.) General Interest

12.) Passiveincome@55

13.) Skippers Chippers

14.) See And Buy Store

15.) eBegging Online

16.) All in One Blog

17.) The Star Celeb

18.) Sam’s World Wide Earning Forex Blog

19.) Advertising-for-Success blog

20.) Tempo Box

21.) Utah Real Estate

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International Monetary Fund (IMF) Power Shift

"China is set to leap-frog industrial powers Germany, France and Britain to become the IMF's second or third most-powerful member under plans being discussed to give emerging nations greater influence."

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Poor nations don't want to lose in IMF power shift

Why Jharkhand Plays Lawn Bowls

"When asked why he robbed banks, U.S. outlaw Willie Sutton is famously said to have responded: “Because that’s where the money is.”

There’s a similarly straightforward answer if you ask why India’s Commonwealth Games bowlers hail from either Guwahati in Assam or Ranchi in Jharkhand: It’s where the greens are."

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The Upside of Moving to IPv6

"What are the differences between IPv6 and IPv4? IPv4, with its 32-bit addressing, has all of the 4.3 billion unique addresses. That sounds like a lot until you start considering that you might have an iPad in your brief-case, a computer in front of you, and a PC in front of you, all of which may have a unique Internet Protocol (IP) address. With IPv6’s 128 bits worth of possible addresses, that’s 2 to the 128th power, until our dogs and cats are also carrying around a baker’s dozen of Internet connected devices, we should be safe from running out of IPv6 addresses."

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Liverpool agrees to sell club to Red Sox owners

"Liverpool's board agreed to sell the debt-riddled Premier League club to the owners of the Boston Red Sox on Wednesday"

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CWG 2010 will result in economic impact of $4,940 mn

"Commonwealth Games 2010 is expected to result in an overall economic impact of $4,940 million on India's GDP during a period of four years ending 2012 and create an employment opportunity close to 24.7 lakh.

According to a Games Organising Committee document, this figure is almost three times the economic impact the 2006 Melbourne Games had on Australian GDP."

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