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Marketplace Tech Report for Monday, February 6, 2012
Feb 6, 2012

Marketplace Tech Report for Monday, February 6, 2012

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Wael Ghonim's memoir, "Revolution 2.0: The Power of the People is Greater than the People In Power," arrives about a year after the uprisings in Egypt. Ghonim was a Google marketing executive when the Egyptian uprising began, and he took to the Internet to call Egyptians to action. He tells his story of what happened in that tumultuous time. Also in this program, shipments of smartphones surpassed shipments of PCs last year.

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Wael Ghonim’s memoir, “Revolution 2.0: The Power of the People is Greater than the People In Power,” arrives about a year after the uprisings in Egypt. Ghonim was a Google marketing executive when the Egyptian uprising began, and he took to the Internet to call Egyptians to action. He tells his story of what happened in that tumultuous time. Also in this program, shipments of smartphones surpassed shipments of PCs last year.

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