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GE Healthcare wins $200m slice of England’s digital health-care plan. That company is taking over the world I tell you.

Wisconsin Health Information Exchange shares burden of electronic medical records. The future is HIT and it's here to stay. Here's another career opportunity for you *hint hint*.

A Boost for Broken Hearts?
The Institute of Regenerative Medicine in Barbados is convinced that stem cells from fetuses can repair cardiac damage. And if it can, then let them find ways to do it! Wot's all this nonsense about regulation and human rights and crap! Narrow-minded bastards.

Hotter Jobs, New Faces, More Cash - An improving economy means better prospects for MBAs, a survey finds. There is hope.

Bahrain takes a step back in time.

The arrest of a webmaster has done untold damage to Bahrain. Bahrain is doing its best to promote itself as a major international financial centre. A place where investors can work, live and do business. A place with progressive views on freedom of speech and expression. Until February, it was doing a pretty good job. However, the arrest of Ali Abdulemam on charges of using the internet to criticise the government has set Bahrain back several years. The charges against him are absurd, and worse still, they have made Bahrain's own attempts to join the international financial and technological community seem even more so.

Qatari Prince guilty of child sex. "...Czech officials have admitted that the refusal to allow Al Thani to return to Qatar could strain relations between the two nations, which do not have an official extradition treaty." Because, you know, relations between the two nations are so bloody important it's ok if a few little girls get sacrificed in the way.

Construction starts on International Media Free Zone. "Construction work on the US$76 million International Media Free Zone (iMPZ) has started, with the first phase of the 50 million square feet facility expected to be ready by the end of next year." *drool*

More later.