Acer + Wikipedia Blackout

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(1) At thebootom of front page of Financial Times:

"On FT.com today  
Tech battle
Video: Taiwan's Asus faces the tech giants
www.ft.com/vftt"

(2) Jenna Wortham, Wikipedia to Go Dark on Wednesday to Protest Bills on Web Piracy.
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/20 ... ikipedia&st=cse

My comment: There is no need to read the report. Basically Wikipedia will shut down its site tomorrow--for a day--to protest two bills pending in Congress to make website owners purge copyrighted material and pits Silicon Valley against Hollywood. Pres Obama backs Silicon Valley, but Silicon Valley apparently wants to show its presence. What is important is there will be no Wiki tomorrow.

(3) Evelyn M Rusli and Ben Protess, In Silicon Valley, Following Ripe Scent of New Money; Young, brilliant and rich with little idea how to plan an estate. New york Times, Jan 16, 2012.
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012 ... -scent-of-new-money

My comment:
(a) Read only the first five paragraphs.
(b) estate (n; Middle English estat, from Anglo-French — more at STATE):
"4b
(1) : POSSESSIONS, PROPERTY; especially : a person's property in land and tenements <a man of small estate>
(2) : the assets and liabilities left by a person at death"
www.m-w.com

(4) Chris Nuttall, Big TVs and Thin Notebook Dominate Key Show. Financial Times, Jan 14, 2012
(Consumer Electronics Show ended yesterday; "While tablets dominated last year's show, laptops struck back this year in the shape of 'ultrabooks'")

My comment: There is no need to read the rest.