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Weekend Reading: The Tory Tea Toff

19 Sep

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Prime Minister David Cameron

Image by The Prime Minister's Office via Flickr

“Even the hardest-core Tea Partier would admire the ambition of Cameron’s chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, to effectively eliminate Britain’s deficit by 2015. When the results of a top-to-bottom review of government spending are issued next month, all departments except health care and foreign aid are expected to face cuts of at least 25 percent over the next four years.”

More from Newsweek here.

Facebook To Compete With Apple

19 Sep

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Steve Jobs introducing the iphone

Steve Jobs introducing the iphone via Steve Rhodes via Flickr

“Facebook is building a mobile phone, says a source who has knowledge of the project. Or rather, they’re building the software for the phone and working with a third party to actually build the hardware. Which is exactly what Apple and everyone else does, too.”

Read the full story on TechCrunch: Facebook is secretly building a phone.

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