Forbes, January 9, 2012 - Forbes

Forbes, January 9, 2012

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  • Release Date: 2012-01-09
  • Genre: News
  • © 2012 Forbes

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Summary : Forbes, January 9, 2012

Welcome to Forbes for January 9th, 2012 from Audible. This edition contains seven feature articles.

In the cover story, we'll tell you about "Spotify's Daniel Ek: The Most Important Man in Music" - Ek created a free, Facebook-enabled platform that could save the recording industry from piracy - and iTunes.

Also, "Lightscrewed: How Washington Whipped Phil Falcone" - Falcone's Lightsquared is battling entrenched cellfone carriers, the GPS industry, and even John Deere to expand wireless data services.

We'll also tell you about, "Tom Freston's One Billion Dollar Revenge" - After Sumner Redstone fired the former Viacom CEO for wisely passing on MySpace, Freston quietly took one joint venture with him. He's now helping Vice Media become the online MTV.

Next, "Authoritarian Capitalism" - With North Korea's leader gone, does free enterprise now stand a small chance?

Then, "High Frequency Follies" - Instability brings profits to turbo charged traders.

Followed by, "A Hacker Foreign Legion Burrows Deep in Egypt and Syria" - A loose-knit international group called Telecomix has helped Arabs evade their governments' attempts to control their access to the Internet.

And in our final story, "America Before the Entitlement State" - Picking your neighbors' pockets is not a necessity of survival.

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