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Soco denies paying for Congo DRC trip to UN to discuss Virunga oil drilling
2014-06-19 17:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: British oil company Soco International has denied allegations that it paid for an official Congolese government delegation to go to a UN meeting where talks were being held on whether its exploratory work in Africa's oldest national park should be allowed. Half the worlds surviving mountain gorillas live in the huge Virunga world heritage site which has been designated by the Unesco as being of importance to the common heritage of humanity. Following protests from the UN, conservation groups...
Microsoft allegedly paying bloggers to promote IE
2014-06-18 15:34:23| InfoWorld: Top News
Michael Arrington -- founder of TechCrunch (which made him notorious), CrunchFund (which made him rich and notorious), CrunchPad (which died in flames), and a long-standing Internet presence and
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Microsoft allegedly paying bloggers to promote IE
2014-06-18 15:34:23| InfoWorld: Top News
Michael Arrington -- founder of TechCrunch (which made him notorious), CrunchFund (which made him rich and notorious), CrunchPad (which died in flames), and a long-standing Internet presence and
Tags: microsoft
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paying
bloggers
Comcast turns 50,000 paying customer homes into public hotspots, millions more by the end of the year
2014-06-12 15:22:19| Extremetech
Two days ago, Comcast did something that would be inconceivable if it was any other company than Comcast: It turned 50,000 residential Xfinity modems into public WiFi hotspots. There are 50,000 paying Xfinity customers in Houston, Texas who are now broadcasting free WiFi that anyone can use. As far as Comcast is concerned, of course, this is a genius move to blanket the country in high-speed WiFi (and there are plans to hijack 8 million more modems by the end of June) -- for Comcast's customers, though, this is egregious monopolistic overreach taken to the next level... and it's possibly illegal as well.
France experiments with paying people to cycle to work
2014-06-02 18:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: France has started a six-month experiment with paying people to cycle to work, joining other European governments in trying to boost bicycle use to boost people's health, reduce air pollution and cut fossil fuel consumption. Several countries including the Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, Belgium and Britain have bike-to-work schemes, with different kinds of incentives such as tax breaks, payments per kilometer and financial support for buying bicycles. In France, some 20 companies and institutions...
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