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"GitHub, the software development collaboration and version control service based on the popular open source Git tool, today announced that it has raised a $250 million funding round led by Sequoia Capital. Andreessen Horowitz, Thrive Capital and Institutional Venture Partners also participated in this round."

"... By comparison, the band of taxpayers right below them, in the 95th to 99th percentile, pay on average about $1 out of every $4. Those in the bottom half pay less than $1 out of every $10. ... ... Eliminating the preferential rates on capital and dividends would generate $1.34 trillion over the next 10 years, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office."

"... By comparison, the band of taxpayers right below them, in the 95th to 99th percentile, pay on average about $1 out of every $4. Those in the bottom half pay less than $1 out of every $10. ... ... Eliminating the preferential rates on capital and dividends would generate $1.34 trillion over the next 10 years, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office."

"It's time to rethink the role that government plays in shaping and supporting policies to solve big problems like climate change and income inequality. by David Rotman October 12, 2016"

" Carlos Benjamín business , crowdlending , Excelend , P2P El sector FinTech ha revolucionado la forma en que las personas tienen acceso a financiación. Hasta su aparición, el mecanismo establecido por la banca tradicional consistía en la confianza de los depositantes. En el momento que un cliente abre una cuenta corriente en un banco, la entidad dispone del capital para prestarlo a otros particulares, con la "garantía" de que si necesitamos recuperar nuestro dinero y sacarlo de nuevo, podremos hacerlo."

"Cross-border flows of goods, services, capital, people, and even ideas are today more contested, at least in advanced economies, than they have been since the fall of the Berlin Wall. "

"Phil Shapiro The open source development model is taking over the enterprise. Two companies that were late coming to the OSS table but which now contribute much code are Cisco and Capital One."

"It was in Russia that the word "oligarchs" was first used to denote very rich businessmen. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has adopted the term to refer to billionaires who create or take over media empires to serve their business or political interests. There is a worldwide trend towards increasingly concentrated ownership of conglomerates that combine media outlets (TV channels, radio stations, newspapers and news websites) with banks, telecoms, property firms and construction companies. All this suits the rulers of countries such as China that espoused capitalism in order to better suppress democracy. "

Objective. Sociologists of technology propose that not only a technological artifact, as such, but also patterns of usage should be considered when studying the social implications of technologies. Accordingly, we explore how people's online activities are influenced by users' socioeconomic status and context of use. Methods. We analyze data from the Allensbacher Computer and Technology Analysis (ACTA) 2004 survey with uniquely detailed information about people's Internet uses and context of usage to explore this relationship. Results. Findings suggest that highstatus and low-status individuals cultivate different forms of ''Internet-in-practice.'' High-status users are much more likely to engage in so-called capital-enhancing activities online than are their less privileged counterparts. Conclusion. Results suggest differential payoffs from Internet use depending on a user's socioeconomic background. Digital inequalities might be mitigated by improving people's Internet equipment and digital experience, but they do not account for all the status differential in use.

"Artículos de Opinión | Sindicato Asambleario de Sanidad (SAS) | 02-02-2016 | facebook yahoo twitter Versión para imprimir de este documento Con los Tratados de Libre Comercio e Inversión, (TTIP, CETA, TISA), el neoliberalismo pretende reactivar de nuevo la voracidad del gran capital, desregularizando todas las esferas de la vida y creando la zona de libre comercio más grande del mundo al servicio de las Corporaciones. "

"Have you ever wonder how everything works? From Smartphones Operating Systems to even each and every Linux Distro and every Operating System created by Microsoft and Apple. How does it play my favorite music? How does it save my files to the cloud? How does actually everything works? All this questions are answered with one big bolded and all capital "PROGRAMMING". So, you might be asking yourself, "yeah I know programming runs all but, how should I start and from where?""

"Carlos Taibo (Madrid, 1956) no se anda por las ramas. Su percepción del mundo no es nada alentadora. La crisis financiera, los acuerdos comerciales soterrados, la política al servicio de intereses económicos privados o la nula incidencia popular en la toma de decisiones son suministros para un cóctel incendiario como la desigualdad."