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Crowdfunding platform ships product samples to potential investors Nov 30th 2012, 13:00 When a crowdfunding site offers free samples to potential investors, is it an enticement to get someone to risk their money, or a service to help people assess their bets? CircleUp, a site connecting accredited investors to consumer product companies, argues it is the latter. The San Francisco firm recently started providing samples from its companies to potential investors, through a partnership with Swaggable, an online company that distributes free product samples in exchange for written reviews. Read full article >> Wonkbook: Obama's strategy for the fiscal cliff comes clear Nov 30th 2012, 12:57 Welcome to Wonkbook, Ezra Klein and Evan Soltas's morning policy news primer. To subscribe by e-mail, click here. Send comments, criticism, or ideas to Wonkbook at Gmail dot com. To read more by Ezra and his team, go to Wonkblog. Read full article >> Rice holds stakes in firms that have done business in Iran Nov 30th 2012, 04:04 U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan E. Rice and her husband own modest stakes in companies that have until recently done business with Iran, prompting new questions from those opposed to her possible nomination as secretary of state. Read full article >> Geithner, Obama's unlikely 'fiscal cliff' negotiator Nov 30th 2012, 01:55 There was a time when Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner seemed to be the most unlikely person President Obama would send to negotiate with Congress. Democrats and Republicans faulted him for his role in the bank bailouts during the worst of the financial crisis — some critics blaming him for paying too much attention to the needs of Wall Street and not enough to ordinary Americans, others for the lethargic state of the economy. Read full article >> Syria's Internet shutdown leaves information void, may signal escalating war Nov 30th 2012, 01:34 Syria's civil war went off­line Thursday as millions of people tracking the conflict over YouTube, Facebook and other high-tech services found themselves struggling against an unnerving national shutdown of the Internet. Read full article >>

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