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World Service,28 mins

19/01/2010

Digital Planet

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The aftermath of the earthquake in China has shown the need to reconnect telecommunications as quickly as possible. Clark Boyd reports on the efforts to employ digital technology to aid the needy in Haiti. What lies behind the threat from Google to pull out of China. Digital Planet investigates how a social conscience might compete with profit and hard-nosed business decisions. Steve Ballmer the CEO of Microsoft outlines his vision of the future and how the company expects to maintain its prominence in the face of stiff competition.

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