Stare-way to hell

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Dave is chastened by a vendor exec, a fellow entrepreneur adopts a confusing moral stance and an IT pro has a date to remember

As a no-nonsense east-ender who's spent 30 years as a particularly hard-nosed business negotiator, I'm none too easily cowed by locking horns with top execs from some of the world's biggest IT comp...

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