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Jared Cohen becomes first director of Google Ideas

In his new role as first director of Google Ideas, Jared Cohen wants to help people around the world develop “local solutions” to age-old problems. Cohen knows a thing or two about modern technology - as senior advisor to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, he made the 2009 call that prompted Twitter to delay maintenance work and thus allowed Iranian election protesters to exchange information online.

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