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Pyongyang, March 2 (KCNA) -- The KBS Media Persons' Association of south Korea on March 2 entered into an indefinite boycott of program production in protest against the puppet authorities' moves to put media under their control, CBS of south Korea reported.

It deplored that fair reporting has been put into a serious crisis since Lee Myung Bak appointed conservative Kim In Gyu as chairman of the KBS.

The organization made it clear that it launched an action demanding a stop to the unfair reporting aimed at misleading public opinion and the resignation of the chairman.

The KBS Trade Union is also going to launch an overall general strike on March 6.

Unionists of the media organizations of south Korea are persisting in their actions against the desperate moves of the puppet regime to put media under its control and its suppression of media.

Actions of reporters and anchor persons belonging to the Reporters Association and the Video Cameramen's Association of the MBC to totally boycott program production and the MBC Trade Union's general strike demanding the resignation of Kim Jae Chol, the wicked chairman of the MBC, are going on. They are positively joined by trade unions of various media organizations.

South Korean progressive media persons are intensifying their actions day by day, saying that they can no longer tolerate the moves of the Lee Myung Bak group of traitors to put the broadcasting service under its control and allow the government to supervise its activities in a bid to stay in power.

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During the post-Soviet era, the port city has acquired a reputation throughout Russia as a bastion of the underground economy. Darkin himself laid the foundation for his rise to power with a company that officials at the Interior Ministry in Moscow characterized as a "hornets' nest of organized crime." At the time, his current wife was married to Igor "The Carp" Karpov, an underworld figure well known in the city. When snipers shot and killed "The Carp" in broad daylight, Belobrova agreed to marry the governor.

"What is happening in the Russian Far East is, in a grotesque way, characteristic of all of Russia," says Vitaly Nomokonov, a law professor at the University of Vladivostok and the author of a textbook on organized crime in the Far East. "The most criminal area of all here is big business, which really ought to be clean, given its close ties to politics."

For this reason, says Nomokonov, there is absolutely no doubt that the top brass in Moscow know perfectly well what is going on in Vladivostok, though they continue to support Darkin. Because of his past, he is susceptible to blackmail and is easily manipulated. He guarantees the "otkat," or commission for high-ranking officials.

During the Putin era, the total amount of bribes being paid in Russia has increased from $33 billion to $400 billion. "Even President Medvedev has admitted there has been no progress," says Professor Nomokonov. "Why is this the case? Because the people in power lack the political will."

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Even if a vice-governor or a customs director is occasionally arrested on corruption charges, the pickings are still abundant for gold-diggers in Vladivostok. The APEC summit of Asia-Pacific nations will be held in September 2012 on Russky Island, off the coast of Vladivostok. For this reason alone, 15 billion will have been spent on bridges, new construction and infrastructure by then.

When Governor Darkin looks down from his office in Vladivostok's "White House," he doesn't just see a city that is cleaning itself up for the big event in the best of Potemkin traditions with a few improved streets along the route to the airport, or fresh paint on buildings that line the streets.

He also sees heavily loaded ferries breaking through the ice near the half-finished bridge across the Zolotoy Rog Bay. On the island across the bay, which barely had enough drinking water for its residents until recently, some 15,000 construction workers from around the world are working furiously to complete the set for the summit, which is intended to win the respect of U.S. President Barack Obama, Chinese President Hu Jintao and other world leaders.

A project that is deeply Russian in its mixture of energy and pomposity is taking shape on the island. While the champagne glasses for the Obamas are already standing on the dining table in the presidential suite, only a few kilometers away Gennady Paskotin, a retired army officer, is complaining about what was sold to him as a "townhouse." He was forced to leave his former apartment due to the construction. Now he is checking the new 57-square-meter (613-square-foot) dwelling, with its plasterboard interior walls, for crooked alignment. The developer billed the government 150,000 for this drafty alternative housing. "A joke," says Paskotin, who makes ends meet on a small officer's pension.

"Our entire system is so unbelievably corrupt," says an official with United Russia in Vladivostok, "that the only way to save it would be to shoot officials, as they do in China."

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Popular Facebook game maker Zynga is scaling up and branching out from the clutches of the worlds biggest social networking site with the launch its own Zynga.com website and gaming platform.

The shift means users will soon be able to play Zyngas popular social games including CityVille, Words with Friends, CastleVille, Zynga Poker and Hidden Chronicle outside of the Facebook ecosystem.

The Zynga Platform is designed with two simple goals: more access to the best social games and more people to play with, said Zynga co-founder Mark Pincus. Were excited to offer new features like the live Social Stream which will enable you to play in real time with your friends and find new ones. Player profiles will let you check your friends helpfulness score to see whos most likely to help you back. And youll be able to chat and play live with your friends and a community of players interested in the same games as you.

Third party game developers will also be able to publish their games on Zynga.com, the beta version of which will launch in early March. Initial Zynga platform partners will include developers MobScience, Row Sham Bow and Sava.

Zynga made it clear that it is not (yet) cutting its ties with Facebook. Users will still pay for virtual goods using Facebook Credits but will now be able to interact with other gamers outside of Facebooks own social network. In its IPO filing earlier this year Facebook revealed that Zynga accounted for 12% of its 2011 revenue.

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FORT LEE, N.J., March 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Jive Software went public this past December in one of Wall Street's hottest IPOs of 2011. Not only did Jive go public at $12 per share, which was above its projected $8 to $10 per share offering range, but Jive sold 15% more shares to the public than initially planned. This allowed Jive to raise $161.3 million or 38% more than the $117 million Jive was projected to raise. Jive closed its first day of trading up 25% to $15.05 per share and today it just reached a new 52-week high of $24.53 per share for a gain of 104% from its December offering price.

Jive currently has 61.31 million shares outstanding. This means at Jive's new 52-week high set today, it reached a market cap of $1.5 billion. This is a huge premium for a company with only $77.29 million in trailing twelve month revenues, with a net loss of $50.8 million. However, with the enterprise social networking industry projected to grow by 61% annually from a $600 million market last year to a $6.4 billion market by 2016, NIA considers Jive's current valuation to be perfectly justified based on what Jive's revenues are likely to reach by 2016.

With Jive getting all of the headlines in the media because of Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs leading its IPO in December, most investors on Wall Street actually believe that Jive is the only publicly traded enterprise social play. The truth is, there is another public enterprise social company that NIA believes has even better technology than Jive and it is trading for only a small fraction of Jive's valuation. The company is BroadVision Inc. and NIA believes it has the potential to far outperform Jive for the rest of 2012.

BroadVision went public in 1996 and was one of the biggest plays during the original dot-com boom, rising to a market cap as high as $13 billion. While most companies that thrived during the dot-com bubble have since gone out of business, BroadVision has managed to completely turn itself around from being deeply in debt with negative working capital to today being debt free with $54.4 million in cash. BroadVision has completely reinvented itself over the past couple of years with the launch of Clearvale Express and Clearvale Enterprise, BroadVision's two enterprise social networking platforms for businesses.

BroadVision's closest comparison in the industry is Yammer, which just announced Wednesday evening that they raised $85 million in venture capital funding, blowing away rumors that they would raise $50 million. BroadVision and Yammer are the only two enterprise social companies utilizing a "freemium" business strategy. BroadVision is offering its Twitter-like social platform for businesses, Clearvale Express for free so that the company can benefit from the network going viral. Any employee at any company can instantly setup a Clearvale Express enabled network for free and immediately begin using it to collaborate with their co-workers on projects at work.

When management of a company finds out that their employees are having huge success with Clearvale Express, they can then pay to seamlessly upgrade to BroadVision's Facebook-like fully featured social platform for business, Clearvale Enterprise. NIA considers BroadVision's Clearvale Enterprise to be far superior to Yammer's paid social platform. It has many unique features that make it stand out from Jive's enterprise social platform, including the ability for companies to create both internal networks for their management, employees, etc. as well as external networks for their customers, partners, etc.

BroadVision is the only company that has paid attention to how all these social networks relate to each other. Many of the employees on the internal company social network are also likely to want to interact with customers on an external network. Others will need to communicate with partners and suppliers. Some of the content created on one network is likely to need to be posted on at least one of the others. To solve these problems, BroadVision has invented social ecosystems, which allows businesses to manage all of their corporate social networks together as a series of connected networks that can overlap both members and content as needed.

BroadVision only has 4.515 million shares outstanding. Based on its closing price yesterday of $42.69, BroadVision's market cap is only $192.75 million or just 1/8 of Jive's market cap of $1.5 billion. NIA believes that BroadVision deserves a valuation that is much closer to Jive. With BroadVision being one of only two public companies in the new most rapidly growing emerging technology market, and with BroadVision appearing to be undiscovered and extremely undervalued in comparison to Jive, NIA has been rapidly accumulating BroadVision and it is currently the largest position in NIA's portfolio.

NIA today released a brand new report entitled '2012 Social Network Stocks 2.0 Report.' NIA's new report features many enterprise social networking companies both public and private including BroadVision Inc., Jive Software, Yammer, Telligent, Moxie Software, Lithium Technologies, and NewsGator. It also features consumer social networking companies including Facebook, LinkedIn, Zynga, and Renren. With Facebook scheduled to have its IPO in May, NIA believes that social networking stocks will be in play on Wall Street for many months to come and we are working hard to determine which social companies offer the greatest investment potential. To receive NIA's extremely valuable exclusive new report released today, go to: http://inflation.us/social2012.html.

About NIA: The National Inflation Association is an organization that is dedicated to preparing Americans for hyperinflation. NIA offers free membership at http://www.inflation.us and provides its members with articles about the U.S. economy and inflation, daily news stories and blog updates, and important charts not shown by the mainstream media. NIA is the producer of economic documentaries that have received a combined 17 million views including the critically acclaimed 'Meltup,' 'The Dollar Bubble,' 'End of Liberty,' 'Hyperinflation Nation,' and brand new 'College Conspiracy.' NIA provides unbiased reviews of the major online sellers of gold and silver bullion and also offers profiles of gold, silver, agriculture, oil, and alternative energy companies that could prosper in an inflationary environment. NIA is the creator of 'NIAnswers,' the world's most comprehensive database of questions and answers about inflation, currencies, debt, and precious metals.

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01-03-2012 14:34 The age-old expression in sports that "it's hard to beat a team three times in a season" was on display in Allen, Texas as the University of the Incarnate Word women's basketball team defeated Midwestern State University at the Lone Star Conference Women's Basketball Championships on Thursday afternoon.

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