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13 March 2012

Business picks from elsewhere, Tuesday 13 March

Snapshot cameras, 'friends', and elderly entrepeneurs.

By New Statesman

1. Experience trumps exams for Strategists (Financial Times)

We don’t need a new class of certified strategists, writes Andrew Hill.

2. Underdeveloped (Babbage)

Snapshot cameras may soon become a thing of the past, writes Babbage.

3. Facebook’s underwriter friends are cheap insurance (Reuters)

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4. Silicon Valley’s undeserved moral exceptionalism (Reuters)

Silicon valley likes to think of itself as morally exceptional, writes Rob Cox.

5. Entrepeneurs: grayer than you’d think (Portfolio)

The highest rate of entrepreneurial activity belongs to the 55-to-64 age group, writes Teresa Novellino.