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Babbage: February 15th 2012
Green light, with caveats
Feb 14th 2012, 22:52 by The Economist online
GOOGLE gets the go-ahead to buy Motorola, Apple's shares reach $500 and Pinterest generates buzz
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Please make these audio clips (more easily) downloadable!
It's really rather awkward to fiddle with 'Audacity' and the like, just to be able to listen to these nuggets of wisdom when not within reach of a network.
If pinterest can solves it's image use problems, it is going to crush other social media sites. It's path to monetization is so, so much clearer than search, and there is zero need for it to appeal to the chimeric male shopper.