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Tech Center: Microsoft In Montreal, Puerto Rico’s Entrepreneurism

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Though the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico remains in a fiscal crisis — burdened with more than $70 billion of debt and a cut to corporate tax breaks — Puerto Rican officials are looking to technology and entrepreneurship as part of a new economic development plan, TechCrunch reported. Indianapolis Sheds Manufacturing Reputation.

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‘Stranger Things’ And Starcourt Mall Teach Us About Big Tech And Innovation

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Taxes and other measures put in place years earlier were even rolled back. The season takes place in the year 1985 – 10 years before eCommerce and Amazon, and seven years before today’s 27-year-old millennials were born. The setting for season three of the Netflix blockbuster Stranger Things is the Starcourt Mall.