"Der Hamburger Großverlag Gruner + Jahr tritt massiv auf die Kostenbremse. Mittlerweile hat der Verlag bestätigt, dass ein Einstellungsstopp verhängt wurde." - Timo Heuer
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"Ron Conway, one of Silicon Valley’s most prolific angel investors (and he was also an early investor in Google), wrote an email yesterday to the CEOs of his portfolio companies. In no uncertain terms he outlines a bleak immediate future, and gives advice to his startups." - Timo Heuer
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"Bubblegum Alley is a local tourist landmark in downtown San Luis Obispo, California known for its accumulation of used bubble gum on the walls of an alley." - Timo Heuer
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"Wirklich wahr: Seit unser erster Friseur in London als Premium Partner Werbung auf Qype gebucht hat, musste er sich einen zusätzlichen Menschen einstellen, um der Nachfrage Herr zu werden." - Timo Heuer
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"Sequoia Capital, arguably the smartest venture capital investor in business, is sounding the alarm and asking its portfolio companies to buckle down for what could be the worst economic downturn of their relatively short lives." - Timo Heuer
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"While former Lehman CEO Richard Fuld was testifying before the House Oversight Committee Oct. 6, CNBC reported he had been punched in the face at the Lehman Brothers gym after it was announced the firm was going bankrupt." - Timo Heuer
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"At a tumultuous meeting of anti-Vietnam War militants at the Chicago Coliseum in 1969, Bill Ayers helped found the radical Weathermen, launching a campaign of bombings that would target the Pentagon and United States Capitol.
Twenty-six years later, at a lunchtime meeting about school reform in a Chicago skyscraper, Barack Obama met Mr. Ayers, by then an education professor." - Timo Heuer
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"new research shows that cheerleaders, who once dazzled with their smiles and sequins, are at greater risk of serious injury than American football players" - Timo Heuer
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"Rather than spending 6-8 hours per day checking e-mail, which I used to do, I can skip reading e-mail altogether for days or even weeks at a time… all with 4-10 minutes a night…" - Timo Heuer
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"On a day in late August, 1998, two Stanford Phd. students managed to make $100,000 with a few mouse clicks by showing their new search technology to Sun Microsystems co-founder Andy von Bechtolsheim. The seasoned Silicon Valley executive was so taken with what he saw that he dashed to his Porsche, pulled his check book from the glove compartment and wrote check number 4642 in the name of a company that did not yet exist: Google, Inc." - Timo Heuer
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"Neuer Nationalrat in Österreich gewählt: Die Kronen-Zeitung hat ordentlich Stimmung für ihren Favoriten gemacht – journalistisch sauber war das nicht." - Timo Heuer
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"A seven-year-old boy has been filmed going on the rampage at a popular zoo in Australia, killing rare reptiles and feeding live ones to a crocodile." - Timo Heuer
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