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Musharraf returns to 'save Pakistan,' but nation skeptical

General Pervez Musharraf ruled Pakistan for nine years until pushed into self-imposed exile. He returned today to stand for parliamentary elections in May.?

By Saba Imtiaz,?Correspondent / March 24, 2013

Pakistan's former ruler General Pervez Musharraf waves to supporters as he arrives at Karachi airport on Sunday.

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The return from self-imposed exile of Pakistan?s former president and army chief Pervez Musharraf has sparked little excitement in the country he ruled for nine years.

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Mr. Musharraf left Pakistan as a retired general, but returns as a politician whose party is planning to contest parliamentary elections this May while he has a number of legal notices to respond to.?While Musharraf says that he has returned to "save Pakistan," analysts believe that the former army chief will have a "minimal" impact, if at all, on the elections.

After several years of living in exile in London and Dubai, Musharraf announced that he would come back to Pakistan after the parliament ? that threatened to impeach him in 2008 ? completed its term and a caretaker government was in place. This was largely met with by skepticism, given that his return has often been delayed. He arrived in Karachi on Sunday and spoke briefly with supporters amassed at the airport.

?I have come back for the poor people,? he said, despite the threats to his life. ?I will be addressing rallies all over Pakistan, please come and listen to me again.? His planned rally on Sunday evening in Karachi was abandoned after the provincial police cancelled a no-objection certificate issued to his party for using the venue.

In 2010, Musharraf formed a political party called the All Pakistan Muslim League while living in London. But his career as a politician in exile has not been successful. Several members left the party after being disillusioned by Musharraf?s reluctance to come back to Pakistan. His party has little infrastructure or a membership base, and has not been an active political force to reckon with. Party spokesperson Aasia Ishaque said that ?Musharraf is a brave man? for opting to return and would be given a "grand welcome" by his supporters.

Musharraf and the All Pakistan Muslim League say they will be participating in the May 11 polls. However, analyst Ikram Sehgal says Musharraf would have a ?minimal? impact on the elections. The insurgent politician capturing attention isn't Musharraf, but cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan.?According to Mr. Sehgal, ?The two main parties [the Pakistan Peoples Party and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz] are worried about Imran Khan coming up in the stretch before the elections.?

Columnist Cyril Almeida says that ?Musharraf the politician today evokes the memory of Imran Khan from a decade ago: a high-wattage name, lots of media coverage, and absolutely no impact on the electorate. Perhaps the best punishment for Musharraf is the one he's chosen for himself: to court a voting public that has entirely moved on from the man and his era.?

Mr. Sehgal adds: ?At the end of the day, Musharraf?s supporters ? with or without his consent ? will end up supporting Imran Khan."

While Musharraf was once an ally of the US in the fight against Al Qaeda, his appeal has waned at home and abroad. Influential figures in Pakistani society, politics, and the military that used to back Musharraf have found other candidates to support, including Imran Khan and his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party.

Despite this, Sehgal says that Musharraf would get a ?warm welcome in Karachi,? the country's business capital.

?The business community likes him,? he says. Pakistan's growth rate?picked up post-9/11, after Musharraf led the country into an alliance with the US in the war in Afghanistan.?

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Google's Global Impact Challenge Will Award $3M To 4 UK Social Entrepreneurs, With Tim Berners-Lee And Richard Branson Among The Judges

Google, the world's largest search engine and one of the most powerful tech companies around, is now using its muscle to search for something new: social entrepreneurs. Today, the company is announcing the Global Impact Challenge, a new prize that will award ?2 million ($3 million) between four non-profit startups based in the UK that are using technology for social good in areas like education, economic development, health, environment and community service. Judges for the award include Tim Berners-Lee, Richard Branson, and we the people via a public vote. If successful, the prize could serve as a template for future social enterprise competitions in other countries.

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Spotify launches first ad campaign

(Reuters) - On demand music service Spotify said it is launching its first advertising campaign on Monday, focusing on U.S. television to hook additional listeners.

Spotify is spending more than $10 million on commercials that will debut during the new season of "The Voice," a talent show for singers on NBC.

The commercials, created by the advertising agency Droga5, include a concert-goer crowd surfing in an endless sea of people and a guy dancing at a party.

When Spotify was founded in 2006 by Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon, the music service depended heavily on its integration with Facebook . Users needed a Facebook account to access Spotify though that is no longer the case.

With more 20 million active users - including 5 million subscribers who pay to listen the service ad-free and on different mobile devices - Spotify is seeking to gain share as competition from other streaming music services like

intensifies. Pandora has about almost 68 million active listeners.

Streaming and on demand music services are popular with consumers though the business model requires lots of capital for royalty rights. Spotify said in December it has paid more than $500 million to the music industry since its launch and that roughly 70 percent of its revenue goes back to music rights holders.

Meanwhile on Monday, Business Insider reported that Spotify is looking to expand to a video on-demand service similar to that of Netflix's , citing two unnamed sources.

Spotify CEO Ek said in an interview with CNET that it is something it will not be doing anytime soon. "I won't rule it out because we're a company that looks at what we're doing incredibly long term. But right now, we're all focused on music."

(Reporting by Jennifer Saba in New York; Editing by Marguerita Choy)

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Dell's board is looking at two surprise takeover bids from Blackstone Group and billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn, reports Reuters citing sources close to the discussion. A special committee is deciding whether either proposal would trump an existing $24.4 billion buyout offer from the PC maker's founder Michael Dell and private equity firm Silver Lake.

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T-Mobile has been planning on moving solely to no-contract plans for several months now, and today is the day they go into effect. Clicking on over to T-Mobile's website reveals no-contract plans as your only option to receive service, with some seriously competitive pricing. The default plan setup is one that offers 1 line of service, with unlimited talk, text, and data -- which is throttled (to 2G speeds) after 500MB -- for $50 per month. You can then slide up the scale of data in 2GB increments from 500MB to 12GB. Each bump in data adds $10 to the monthly plan, so the range is $50 for 500MB up to $110 for 12GB of data, with hotspot/tethering included in the price at each level. Hit the break for more details

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NLRB requires Oakland employer to release confidential docs ...

In a potentially far-reaching decision, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has ruled an employer must turn over confidential employee witness statements to a union as part of a grievance procedure.

The statements were part of a work??place investigation that resulted in the firing of an employee at the Pied??mont Gardens Nursing Home in Oak??land. The nursing home ob??tained some statements with a promise of confidentiality. Other employees, however, provided statements without requesting confidentiality. Pied??mont Gardens used the statements to justify the man?s firing.

He complained to the United Health??care Workers-West, the union representing Piedmont Gardens employees. It requested ?all statements? taken during the in??ves??ti??ga??tion.? The nursing home refused on the grounds that doing so would ?breach witness confidentiality.?

The union complained to the NLRB, which ruled that witness statements taken during workplace investigation may be turned over under certain con??ditions. The case is Piedmont Gar??dens (359 NLRB No. 46, 2012).

A previous NLRB ruling gave employers a safe harbor from providing statements in order to protect confidentiality.

The NLRB set out a two-part test for requiring release of confidential witness statements:

1. The information requested must be relevant to the grievance at hand.
2. The employer asserting the confidentiality argument must turn over witness statements unless it can prove that a ?legitimate and substantial confidentiality interest exists and that it outweighs? the union?s need for the information.

The NLRB recommends that parties attempt to work out accommodations that allow the union to perform its function while limiting breaches of confidentiality.

Advice: Faced with similar circumstances, consult your attorney. You don?t want to mislead witnesses about the degree to which you can guarantee confidentiality.

Note: This and many other recent NLRB rulings may be overturned if the U.S. Supreme Court upholds a recent federal appeals court decision that the NLRB has not been properly constituted since January 2012.

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