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Thursday, October 8, 2009
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Google: Our Employees Should Be Grateful They’re Not Starving

8:54AM Ryan Tate | Google used to say its lavish perks bolstered productivity and, if anything, would only grow more posh. But a recession changes things. Now the official line is more like, just be happy you’re working, you ungrateful f—king pigs. More »
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Google Billionaires Say Happy Days Are Here Again

3:30AM Ryan Tate | Good news, jobless poors: The recession is over, according to the billionaire nerds who run Google. Their computers told them so, and now the executives are in New York to spread the word and count their gold bars. More »
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Saturday, October 3, 2009
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MySpace Is For “Stalking”, Says Owner Of MySpace

3:27AM Ryan Tate | Media mogul and grumpy old man Rupert Murdoch has developed a “personal antipathy to the Internet”, biographer Michael Wolff writes. Murdoch even thinks MySpace, which he himself paid $US580 million for, is kind of a criminal piece of garbage: More »
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Saturday, August 29, 2009
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Sergey Brin’s A Saint To His Mother-in-Law

3:40AM Ryan Tate | Say what you will about Google’s propensity for funnelling money to a tight, back-scratching coterie of friends; but co-founder Sergey Brin does right by his mother-in-law, which is more than many husbands can say. Witness his new half-million-dollar donation. More »
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