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Misnomer UpClose: A Conversation with Mark Turrell on "Scaling for the Arts" – Video


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LinkedIn keeps Irish figures to itself

As an unlimited company, LinkedIn no longer reveals information such as its turnover and profit figures as well as how much tax it pays in Ireland. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Professional social networking site LinkedIn has become the latest multinational to opt to keep its financial performance to itself, following its decision to register as an unlimited company with the Companies Registration Office (CRO).

Twitter, which recently announced that it would expand its Dublin operation, increasing staff numbers to around 200 by the end of this year, is another multinational which is registered as an unlimited company in Ireland.

LinkedIn recently filed its accounts for 2012 with the CRO, but as an unlimited company it no longer reveals information such as its turnover and profit figures - as well as how much tax it pays in Ireland. While an unlimited corporate status can bring with it increased risk, as the personal assets of the principal parties can be drawn upon to settle debts or claims against the business, this can be offset by wrapping an Irish unlimited company into a parent company with limited protection that is outside the EU, such as the Isle of Man or Jersey.

In its most recent published accounts, for the year to December 31st 2011, LinkedIn reported a loss of 6 million on sales of 133 million, according to Top1000.ie. As such, it paid no corporation tax in 2011, while a loss of 3.7 million in 2010 meant that it also paid no tax in that financial year.

The company employs more than 100 people on Sir John Rogersons Quay in Dublin, alongside other tech giants Google and Facebook.

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How Israel and Hamas weaponized social media

More militaries and armed groups are using social media as a weapon of war -- but when ground skirmishes are mirrored by cyber-social battles, managing the message can get messy.

Ahmed Jabari never saw the missile that killed him. As he drove past parked cars and empty intersections on a leafy street in Gaza City in November 2012, a drone circling high overhead took aim at the roof of his nondescript sedan and fired.

In the chaos that followed, little did anyone know that reducing Jabari and his car to a cloud of shrapnel and dust marked the beginning of Israel's Operation Pillar of Defense. Within hours, the Israel Defense Forces made sure hundreds of thousands of people found out.

A senior Hamas military leader whom Israel accused of involvement in several terror attacks, Jabari was a strategic target for the Israeli military in its eight-day air and ground offensive against Hamas' Gaza stronghold.

Shortly after Jabari was killed, the IDF broke the news by uploading a brief, silent, black-and-white video of the airstrike to YouTube. It then took to Twitter to say "Ahmed Jabari: Eliminated" and posted a follow-up on Facebook with a photo of Jabari titled "IDF Begins Widespread Campaign on Terror Sites in the Gaza Strip," inviting its followers to "stay tuned for updates."

"Our blessed hands will reach your leaders and soldiers wherever they are (You Opened Hell Gates on Yourselves)," the Al Qassam Brigades tweeted.

From this point forward, the world was given a couple of front-row tickets -- each with a decidedly one-sided view -- to watch as the conflict was live-tweeted between these bitter enemies.

Operation Pillar of Defense wasn't the first time that feuding armed groups used social media to broadcast a war. Militaries and militias have skirmished virtually in Syria, Bahrain, Egypt, Libya, Kenya, Somalia, and elsewhere. But the Israel-Palestine conflict is such a hot-button issue that it was easy for the IDF and Hamas to capture the world's attention. It also was the first time that actual physical hostilities were mirrored by cyber-social battles for hearts and minds.

Palestinians extinguish the fire that engulfed Ahmed Jabari's car after the airstrike.

When the IDF fired up its interactive media branch in December 2009, it started with a few videos on YouTube. Nowadays, it manages nearly 30 platforms speaking six languages: Hebrew, Arabic, English, Spanish, French, and Russian.

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