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Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 130415 - http://bit.ly/11kPvaC  yesterday's tweets as a single Web page #MMDD

UK refuses to admit US embassy cables obtained by #WikiLeaks are genuine - http://bit.ly/119bPS0 pathetic #tergiversation

The Communications Data Bill will strangle new businesses - http://bit.ly/Zn9JR6 great to see @Coadec making its voice heard; more please

SCOTUS Oral Arguments in AMP v. Myriad Genetics; Court to Determine Answer to Question: Are Human Genes Patentable? - http://bit.ly/XOurv6

The Open Standards Board - http://bit.ly/108tFdZ naming names (v @Simon_M_White @AlecMuffett)#openstandards #uk

Parallella: The $99 #Linux supercomputer - http://zd.net/YrHnSv only with free software is this possible...

Azzam Alwash wins Goldman prize: 'Saddam's marsh drainage project was war by other means' - http://bit.ly/15hxcrk heart-warming stuff #iraq

Who owns our genes? #Myriad Genetics' monopoly challenged - http://bit.ly/10ZprjQ excellent, readable summary of issues and developments

KEI Works to Make the World a Better Place in Many Ways (Video) - http://bit.ly/15cjCVE great to see @jamie_love getting some recognition

If we need to kill the EU-US trade agreement, we will - http://bit.ly/XOxPGl yup #TAFTA #IPout #opendrafts

Investor-State Dispute Resolution: The Monster Lurking Inside Free Trade Agreements - http://bit.ly/13dkGVA huge threat, almost unknown

JUSTICE KAGAN: "And the PTO seems very patent happy" - http://bit.ly/10Zr9lh myriad thoughts on #Myriad... #genepatents

Microsoft should never have supported netbooks - they signed PC's death warrant - http://zd.net/YrUvan good analysis: a race to the bottom

Surprise, Surprise! CJEU dismisses Italian and Spanish challenges on enhanced cooperation procedure - http://bit.ly/118GxgF regrettable

Circuses to face wild animal ban - http://bbc.in/11lU58D about time (v @julianhuppert)

"authors who were undergrads when research was conducted able to publish in #PeerJ for free" - http://bit.ly/1192fBq (v @Stephen_Curry)

Debatte: Wie kann sich Onlinejournalismus finanzieren? - http://bit.ly/YZON3d lots of good ideas here

SCOTUS Seems Skeptical As Myriad Claims Gene Patents Should Exist, Because It Put A Lot Of Work Into Finding Them – bit.ly/YP2C5r

#Android phones to top 1B by year-end says Schmidt - http://cnet.co/17DUsPD 1.5 million activations daily (v @stshank)#linux

#Archaeology on an Interstellar Scale - http://bit.ly/17DVMll lovely, thought- provoking stuff #space

Brazilian non-GM soy producers baffled by UK retailers' decision - http://bit.ly/13gpnxX are supermarkets lying to us? looks that way...

Standing up to big business lobbies:  ALTER-EU's annual assembly and public debate - http://bit.ly/ZnSv6j important stuff #lobbying

wow: the last Ice Age began 4250 years ago, and only lasted 250 years. who knew? - http://bit.ly/17E1fZD

India, EU fail to sort out differences on free trade agreement - http://bit.ly/13gMXe3 meanwhile, opposition mounts in #india

Yao Ming Says No to Ivory and Rhino Horn - http://bit.ly/YswmAw Yao Ming is a total hero: give that man a Nobel Peace Prize... #china

Protests against #TPP go global as Malaysian, Japanese groups oppose deal - http://bit.ly/170HIBh great to see people waking up to threats

Americans want #ACTA in the free trade agreement with the EU - http://bit.ly/11dKhwq well, obvs (v @PostActa)#TAFTA #IPout #opendrafts

Event: What’s Wrong with #Copyright? - http://bit.ly/15ipyNq next week; could be a long evening...#london

Congress Quickly And Quietly Rolls Back Insider Trading Rules For Itself - http://bit.ly/XPKQ2p as one does

FBI arrest agent over bribery cover up claim in battle over $10bn mountain - http://bit.ly/15duOBD the sums involved here are just obscene

In tit for tat, Indian hackers deface 37 Brazilian websites - http://bit.ly/YQGlnL weird

BMJ: end of #NHS? - http://bit.ly/14tDmoD "folly to force the English NHS into competition for the sake of competition" *v @schestowitz)

EU abandons pharma IP demands in India trade deal - http://bit.ly/17EBfx9 pretty significant concession by EU (v @mgeist)#FTA