Jimmy Wales News
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The advent of massively open online classes (MOOCs) is the single most important technological development of the millennium so far. I say this for two main reasons. First, for the enormously transformative impact MOOCs can have on literally billions of people in the world. Second, for the equally disruptive effect MOOCs will inevitably have on the global education industry. While at Davos, I was fortunate to attend an...
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Nathan Elliott used to be just one of the 130,000 fans who faithfully attend Comic-Con International, the annual geek culture convention in San Diego.
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Unlike President Barack Obama, whose motorcade shut down New York’s Park Avenue for more than 20 minutes yesterday, Carlos Slim Helu was traveling light last night.
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Wikipedia opened an office in India, its first outside the U.S., to better reach the country’s 1.2 billion people after the online encyclopedia where users contribute and edit entries added readers and had its most successful fundraiser yet.
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U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Inspector General H. David Kotz is leaving the agency after four years to join a private investigative firm.
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Wikipedia, the free online information service, is to shut down for 24 hours from midnight eastern time tonight in protest against proposed U.S. anti- piracy legislation, the New York Post reported.
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Google Inc. will place a link on its home page tomorrow protesting anti-piracy measures in the U.S. Congress, joining other Internet companies demonstrating against the Hollywood-backed legislation.
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TONIGHT on Charlie Rose @ 8p & 10p ET, journalists Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera discuss their book, ``All the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis.’’ Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales talks about his company’s 10th anniversary coming up in January, expansion into India, and the future of open-source knowledge and social media.
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Apple Inc. filed a lawsuit in Germany seeking to ban sales of Samsung Electronics Co.’s smartphone models, including the Galaxy S Plus and the S II.
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Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia where users contribute and edit entries, will shut the English version of its website for 24 hours tomorrow to oppose proposed U.S. anti-piracy legislation.
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