Felon became COO of Wikipedia foundation
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The foundation that runs Â and accepts donations for Â the online encyclopedia Wikipedia neglected to do a basic background check before hiring a chief operating officer who had been convicted of theft, drunken driving and fleeing a car accident.
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In the category of longest prison sentence, WorldCom Inc. founder Bernard J. Ebbers recently bested the organizer of an armed robbery, the leaders of a Bronx drug gang and the acting boss of the Gambino crime family.
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Authorities unamused by Prince impersonation A Moroccan IT worker faces jail for setting up a Facebook account in the name of Prince Moulay Rachid, the second in line to the country's throne.â¦
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A far-right activist was convicted of incitement and sentenced to the maximum five years in prison Thursday for anti-Semitic activities, including contributing to a Web site dedicated to Holocaust denial.
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More experts, less fiddling? A co-founder of Wikipedia, and its first editor-in-chief, is starting a "new Wikipedia", using the current version as the starting point.â¦
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Wikimedia Foundation Inc.'s popular Wikipedia online encyclopedia cracked the top ten list of most popular Web sites in the U.S. for the first time in January, according to comScore Networks Inc.
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One of Hollywood's top fund-raisers was sentenced on Monday to 63 months in prison for skimming donations intended for charity galas to pay personal expenses, prosecutors in Los Angeles said.
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Wikia Inc, the commercial arm of the nonprofit organization that runs Wikipedia, announced yesterday the opening of a new free service for hosting any community-sponsored content, such as blogs, social networking or other Web 2.0-like content that promotes interaction.
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The creator of Napster in the works of making a legal file-sharing network.  Also:  Red Herring publisher to create a Blogozine & hellip;.  Intel's fourth quarter looks up & hellip;. and more.
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Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia, is launching an Internet search engine based on the same voluntary collaboration that drives the online encyclopedia.
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The owner of one of the nation's largest Internet software piracy Web sites has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison.
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Far from the power-broking of Silicon Valley, the new boss of the Internet giant Wikipedia is a soft-spoken French mother of three, who runs the global success story from a home office in a village in central France.
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In the months leading up to this  week's sentencing, Frank Quattrone's friends, family and  colleagues sent hundreds of letters to a federal judge in  support of the former technology banker.
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A Canadian man who helped create Neteller, a company to process Internet gambling transactions, pleaded guilty yesterday to a federal conspiracy charge, about two weeks after another founder of the company entered a guilty plea.
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The founder of online encyclopaedia Wikipedia launches a service offering free tools for community websites.
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Search Wikia, the widely awaited search engine from Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, is slated to make its official debut today.
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Vivid imagination of al-Q 'web guru' revealed Younis Tsouli - irhabi007 - was earlier this month jailed for ten years. It's a good sentence for the cyber-jihad twit, someone who became fodder for television news shows like 60 Minutes. Wishing to show how al Qaeda was beating the pants off the good guys on the Internet, Tsouli was the perfect example for them, one of fearmongering at its finest.â¦