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Recently, a Rajasthan-based company Abhinav Gold International splashed a halfpage advertisement in major regional Gujarati newspapers, promising investors the moon if you make a one-time investment of Rs 6,000, you get Rs 1.72 lakh in two years. Abhinav Gold claimed to be a subsidiary of the Birla group and said it had been dealing in gold for the past 32 years.

Rajesh Rajyotish, 39-year-old deputy manager from a multinational insurance company in Surat, found the offer too hot to resist and made his investment. He received money on a monthly basis for 6 months but the payouts from the company stopped thereafter. And Rajyotish filed an FIR with the Surat police.

But this is not an isolated case.

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I received the following question from a reader and it started me thinking….

With the recent popularity of tablets, do you think in the near future tablets will replace netbooks or stay as a substitute? If you think tablets and netbooks are going to continue competing against one another, do you think the demand for netbooks will decline but not perish? Thanks!

He raises an interesting question, but I’m going to expand it just a bit to ask an even bigger question: Are tablet computers going to eclipse and ultimately replace laptop computers in the marketplace?

I have the most popular devices — two laptops (one Mac, one PC) and two tablets (an iPad 2 and an Android-powered Kindle Fire) — so I can start by discussing my own experience.

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I have spent a lot of time (10+ years probably) thinking about college vs. “real world” experience (i.e. running a business). I’ve talked to hundreds of different people, from all walks of life, about college, entrepreneurship and the value of different types and paths of education. Lately it seems to have become a much . College is and many students are graduating with . The job market is poor, so some graduates like they used to. The startup and investor market may be in , but no one really knows. It’s always to join or start a business anyway.

It’s a really important topic, so I thought I’d weigh in.

First I’d like to acknowledge the fact that I am writing this from a position of bias. I have both a

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• School uniform for the office but Lord Wolfson is top of class

Next kicked off the post-Christmas retail reporting season today with a “disappointing” set of sales figures which suggest the high street endured a torrid period that is likely to push some stores out of business.

The clothes giant is regarded as one of the strongest players in a notoriously dicey industry.It saw sales in the period from 1 August to 24 December slip 2.7% in stores.

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After getting pummeled over the past two weeks, Wall Street posted big gains on Monday as traders reacted to record retail sales over the Thanksgiving weekend and progress on solving Europe’s debt crisis.

Today’s Markets

The Dow Jones Industrial Average soared 291 points, or 2.6%, to 11,523, the SP 500 jumped 33.9 points, or 2.9%, to 1,193 and the Nasdaq Composite rallied 85.8 points, or 3.5%, to 2,527.

After falling close to 1000 points, or 8%, over the past two weeks, the blue chips have rallied on the day.The Nasdaq had an even better performance, its best on a percentage basis since August.

Energy and basic material shares posted some of the biggest gains.

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