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Submission + - Is Software Piracy Killing Jobs?

Submitted by Murthy DN on Wednesday February 28, 2007 @12:15AM

Murthy DN writes: During his visit to India, Steve Ballmer (CEO, Microsoft)said "By reducing piracy by just 10%, it would lead to the creation of 50,000 new jobs in India.". The full article is here.
Do you think software piracy is killing jobs?

Submission + - CompUSA to close half of its stores

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silic0nsilence

on Tuesday February 27, 2007 @10:40PM

silic0nsilence writes: "Businesswire.com is reporting that CompUSA will be closing 126 stores, which is more than half of them. This comes months after a announcements that CompUSA may have been sold since it is not making much profit."

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