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The 10 Worst Corporatioins of 2005

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ExxonMobil: In the face of a virtually complete scientific consensus that global warming is real and happening — and considerable agreement that it is happening faster than expected just a few years ago — ExxonMobil continues to insist that “scientific evidence remains inconclusive.” So far, the cynical, profit-motivated, short-term and self-interested views of ExxonMobil have mattered more than the evidence-based perspective of the world’s climatologists. That’s because the most profitable corporation on earth has lots of political power and is skilled at amplifying its views (see ExposeExxon.org for details), and the climatologists do not and are not. While the world burns, ExxonMobil is raking in record profits — more than $36 billion in 2005, the highest ever earned for a single company in one year.

KPMG: KPMG “admitted to criminal wrongdoing in the largest-ever tax
shelter fraud,” said U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales in August.
KPMG managed to escape with no conviction or plea agreement, thanks to
a “deferred prosecution” agreement by which the firm promised to pay
$456 million in fines, restitution and penalties and do better in the
future. That won’t quite make up for the harm the company inflicted.
According to the government, “KPMG has admitted that it engaged in a
fraud that generated at least $11 billion in phony tax losses which,
according to court papers, cost the United States at least $2.5 billion
in evaded taxes.”

San Francisco Bay Guardian

Bebo got $15m

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Seriously, how many social networking sites do we need? $15m? holy shit man, maybe I’ll start one too… so I can buy up Loopwheeler and Spruce after I cash out… LOL…

You?re reading it here first: Bebo, an SF-based social networking site which is in the middle-ground between MySpace and Facebook, and among the biggest in UK, Ireland and New Zealand, has received $15 million in venture funding from Benchmark Capital.Bebo will use the funding to expand the U.S. team and open a London office. It has also hired a chief privacy officer, who will be announced soon.

Bloggers Blog: Bebo Raises $15 Million in Venture Capital Financing

Meebo repeater

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I mentioned in my previous blog entry that I am only install Skype as my IM client on my work laptop, so when I need to chat with friends who are too lazy to get onto Skype, I use Meebo, and it works pretty well, now they even support chat history if you create a Meebo account… I checked out their blog and foud this thing called Meebo Repeater, it works kindda like a p2p repeater that bounces your traffic between one another and finally to Meebo’s server… So if your company blocks Meebo at the firewall, you can get to it via these repeater nodes… pretty cool idea, I don’t need it coz I use an SSH tunnel to my own Squid proxy, but some of you guys might want it… I also like how they told you what they integrated to build this…

What?s the meebo repeater and is it safe?

The meebo repeater can only access meebo.com, so unlike other proxies that give anyone access to any site from your computer, the meebo repeater can only be used for chatting. Also, the meebo repeater supports SSL and non-SSL so you don?t have to worry about anyone reading your IMs.The repeater is also fully open source and built on top of rinetd which has received many years of testing. And if we ever find a critical bug, we can disable all of the repeaters remotely and ask everyone to upgrade.

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