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Interview with Andrew Humphries, UK's Tech City

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What is the Tech City Investment Organization? Andrew Humphries: The Tech City Investment Organization or TCIO is the result of an initiative announced by David Cameron, the Prime Minister in November of 2010. Second thing that we do is encourage large organizations, companies like Google, Intel and Facebook, to invest in Tech City.

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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

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Google’s AdSense) or some other form of ad. As John Battelle chronicles in his brilliant (and must read) book, The Search , Google thought this idea stunk. So Google launched Google AdWord and AdSense based in part on technology it acquired when it bought an LA-based company called Applied Semantics. &#.

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Entrepreneurs Should be Respected, Not Loved

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Google was n-o-t-h-i-n-g! Yes, even Google has to make these tough decisions about where to allocate staff and money. He has made decision after decision that was unpopular at the time – I’m betting even within his own organization many decisions were unpopular. Everybody returned our calls. We were innovating.