Today in Global Small Business: The Year Ahead According to Mary Meeker

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What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners:

• The number of vehicles recalled globally, for all automakers, since 2008 for Takata airbag problems tops 24 million and what it means for the auto industry.
• Leading bitcoin entrepreneur sentenced to two years in prison for helping a Florida man sell more than $1 million in bitcoins to customers on Silk Road, an online black market where users could anonymously buy and sell drugs and other illegal items.
• What the renewed relationship between Cuba and the United States means for businesses and global citizens.
• What's the reality of going global?  Here's a bunch of articles that deal with that very same subject.
• The top ten strategic technology trends for 2015.
• The year ahead according to Mary Meeker, American venture capitalist, prolific author and former Wall Street securities analyst.