While social media can be a great engagement tool between businesses and customers, it also gives hackers an opportunity to spread malicious content and attacks virally.

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This is the president who attacks the European Central Bank at almost every opportunity for its rigid monetary policy, criticises the European Commission for its promotion of competition and is seeking to undermine the Doha world trade talks because they threaten to cut European Union farm subsidies.

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Here's a deeper irony: The FDA had not only missed the opportunity to make a statement about a potential link between Avandia and heart attacks, even if only to dismiss it.

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And only the coming months will tell whether threats and attacks will keep girls away from classrooms or whether girls will indeed get the opportunity they seek to contribute to their own societies.

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Rather than acknowledge that attacks on the legitimacy of the democratically elected government of her country are attacks on her country, Livni has viewed every attack on Netanyahu as an opportunity to weaken his government.

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