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What the US Mobile Fiasco Says About Google Fi
2016-02-06 02:05:47| PC Magazine Cell Phones Product Guide
The humbling of an upstart little virtual carrier shows why Google isn't getting more ambitious with Project Fi.
VIDEO: South Africa's finance minister fiasco
2015-12-18 13:59:37| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
How South Africa got three finance ministers in just one week.
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China rescues US Paris climate deal typo fiasco
2015-12-12 23:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: For over an hour on Saturday night, the Paris talks hung in the balance. At stake was US participation in a global agreement. Screens beaming coverage of the main plenary to thousands of delegates outside were turned off, as what was billed as the coronation of a global climate deal rapidly turned sour. The problem? One word: shall. The issue? Whether the US and other developed countries would be signing up to a UN treaty that would legally bind them to make specific greenhouse gas cuts. That...
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American Looks to Avoid Repeat of 2007 Fiasco as Reservation Systems Merge
2015-05-12 21:49:00| Airlines - Topix.net
NEW YORK -- In March 2007, a year and a half after they merged, US Airways and America West sought to merge their reservations systems. The result was unfortunate.
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The Amazon Dash Button Fiasco
2015-04-08 15:00:00| PC Magazine: the Official John C. Dvorak RSS Feed
The Dash button is a harbinger of the problems we all face in the future with the "Internet of Things."
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