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* Ben Austen: Using tech to bring the coffin industry back from the dead
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* Jeff Cornwall: How to save face and avoid becoming an entrepreneurial bully
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* Today in insider trading: Morgan Stanley banker investigated for leaking merger info to Raj Rajaratnam
* Today in insider trading II: Warner Music Group chairman and CEO Edgar Bronfman Jr. found guilty of insider trading by a French court.
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