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• WPP Agency Takes Funding From CIA Investment Unit

  BNET - 2009-10-21

  WPP's Visible Technologies unit has taken investment funding from In-Q-Tel, the investment fund of the CIA. Visible Technologies is developing tools that can scan social media networks such as Twitter and Facebook, and scour meaningful data from them. by Jim Edwards

  Tags: CIA, Social Media, WPP Agency, WPP, Visible Technologies, Investment, Finance, Jim Edwards

• Visible Technologies Gets Funding To Help The CIA Monitor Social Media

  PaidContent - 2009-10-20

  As if posting a stream of status updates to hundreds of strangers on Twitter doesn’t have enough “big brother” potential ... Visible Technologies, the WPP-backed social media monitoring firm, has picked up an undisclosed amount of funding from In-Q-Tel, the strategic investment arm of the U.S. government. In-Q-Tel serves...

  Tags: CIA, Twitter Inc., Social Media, In-Q-Tel, Corporate Insurance, Software Development, Homeland Security, Business Security, Government, Branding, Biotechnology, Business Operations, Software/Web Development, Marketing, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Technologies / Formats, Tameka Kee

• CIA Climate Change Center Survives Funding Opposition

  BNET - 2009-10-08

  The Central Intelligence Agency's plan to open the Center on Climate Change and National Security faced a setback -- aka Sen. John Barrasso --earlier this week, over opposition to what the Republican Wyoming senator called "misguided defense funding priorities." BNET Energy wrote about the CIA's new center on climate change...

  Tags: CIA, Climate Change, Kirsten Korosec

• CIA endorses cloud computing approach to bolster security

  BNET - 2009-10-07

  WASHINGTON -- One of the U.S. government's strongest advocates of cloud computing is also one of its most secretive operations: the Central Intelligence Agency. But the CIA has adopted cloud computing in a big way, and the agency believes that the cloud approach makes IT environments more...

  Tags: cloud computing, CIA

• CIA Tackles Climate Change and Its Risk to National Security

  BNET - 2009-09-29

  The Central Intelligence Agency -- the country's first line of defense -- will add rising sea levels, desertification and population shifts caused by climate change as one more potential threat to national security. The CIA announced recently it will open the Center on Climate Change and National...

  Tags: Security, CIA, Climate Change, Intelligence Agency, Kirsten Korosec

• Guantanamo Defense Lawyers Being Investigated Over CIA Photos

  BNET - 2009-08-21

  Three defense attorneys representing detainees at Guantanamo Bay are being investigated for possibly breaking the law after they showed photos of suspected CIA personnel to their clients at the prison. The lawyers, members of the military's Judge Advocate General's Corps, showed the detainees the images in an effort to identify...

  Tags: photograph, defense, CIA

• Report: CIA hired contractors to help hit al Qaeda

  BNET - 2009-08-20

  WASHINGTON AP - The CIA hired private contractors at Blackwater USA in 2004 as part of a secret program to kill top-level members of al Qaeda, a person familiar with the program said Wednesday.The contracts, which were unsuccessful, were canceled several years ago, the person told The Associated Press. He...

  Tags: U.S. Congress, program, CIA

• DTN News: U.S. to Hunt Down Afghan Drug Lords Tied to Taliban

  BNET - 2009-08-11

  DTN News: U.S. to Hunt Down Afghan Drug Lords Tied to Taliban*Source: DTN News / The New York Times By James RisenNSI News Source Info WASHINGTON - August 10, 2009: Fifty Afghans believed to be drug traffickers with ties to the Taliban have been placed on a Pentagon target list...

  Tags: policy, U.S. Senate, NATO, Afghanistan, Pentagon

• Lessons from the field - Effective Sales Management: Short and Long-term Planning, Forecasting, and Expense Budgeting - Part 2 of 2 - By John Hogan

  BNET - 2009-08-10

  Lessons from the field - Effective Sales Management: Short and Long-term Planning, Forecasting, and Expense Budgeting - Part 2 of 2 - By John Hogan 'The budget evolved from a management tool into an obstacle to management.' Frank C. CarlucciCarlucci has had a very diverse career, having served as US...

  Tags: sales, business, hotel

• Pfizer - Neurontin: David Franklin and the private eye

  BNET - 2009-08-10

  Did Pfizer, the world's largest pharmaceutical company, cross the line on the eve of last month's crucial test trial involving its controversial anti-seizure medication Neurontin?Two weeks after the trial abruptly ended with the plaintiffs agreeing to dismiss their case with prejudice, questions linger about why Pfizer sent a former CIA...

  Tags: Pfizer Inc.