Happy Pi Day! 28 facts about pi you probably didn't know

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Best ways to Celebrate Pi Day 2014 MIT preps for Pi Day the pie way Network World Daily News AM March 14, 2014 Share this email Happy Pi Day! 28 facts about pi you probably didn't know Happy Pi Day (3/14)! To celebrate, here's more than you ever wanted to know about pi READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. Best ways to Celebrate Pi Day 2014 2. MIT preps for Pi Day the pie way 3. 10G and 12 years later... 4. Using Amazon Kindle Fire HDX Tablets in the Enterprise 5. Network World has an Instagram account! Now what? 6. Phishing campaign targets Google Docs, Drive users 7. Target says it investigated but dismissed early signs of breach 8. China's WeChat cracks down on accounts, amid nation's growing censorship 9. Microsoft's Hybrid Cloud - Extending the Datacenter to Windows Azure in the Cloud 10. 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