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Information As Commodity: What If Twitter Was Regulated Like An Oil & Gas Company?

Theodore Kury, Director of Energy Studies at the University of Florida, sees value in thinking of social media as the pipeline that carries a new kind of utility: information. He makes the case for regulating companies like Twitter accordingly.

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Green Or Gone Ideas

Bayer Can Drop The Name Monsanto, But Can’t Erase The Hate

The German pharma giant wants to do a bit of ‘rebranding,’ after the mega merger with the U.S.-based agro-giant. But anti-Monsanto sentiment is bound to remain no matter what it’s called.

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In The News

The New Forms Of Protectionism Go Well Beyond Trump’s Mouth

At first glance, it looks as though leaders of the world’s most powerful countries learned the lesson from the 1930s: Closing the borders is harmful. But in reality, protectionism has taken on new forms.

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