Blau returned 50 such documents and asserted that he had no more documents in his possession.
However Gartner's Mr Blau warned that incidents like these could begin to chip away at Instagram's reputation.
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At the time, the Shin Bet asked that Blau return all the classified documents in his possession.
Kamm gave the documents she stole to Haaretz reporter Uri Blau, who began publishing them in November 2008.
And after confessing to stealing the 2, 000 documents, she told them that she gave them all to Blau.
After her release, she shopped the documents around to various military reporters and eventually gave them to Blau.
But five years--and several donations from Blau's company to the Perry Street Block Association--later, the complaints have died down.
Brian Blau, research director at tech research firm Gartner, says Google needs a real-time option, or a Twitter equivalent.
That is, publication of the story was barred in order to give Blau another opportunity to come clean and walk free.
Blau says her Sex and the City tour is the most popular, drawing about 1, 000 fans--almost all of whom are women--each week.
Because he was a journalist, Blau was not seriously investigated and was let off the hook even as he lied to investigators.
Bruce Beal, formerly executive vice president, is succeeding Blau as president.
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Blau noted that the socialization of search is just getting started.
When Blau found out that the Shin Bet knew he lied, and still illegally possesses thousands of classified documents, he decided not to return to Israel.
"When a company has competing products that can result in cannibalisation it's often better to focus on a single one, " said Brian Blau from the consultancy Gartner.
As for Kamm, Miller reported that she was suspected of stealing up to 1, 000 documents from the IDF during her military service and giving them to Blau.
By Alfon's telling, Israel's draconian Shin Bet security agency had "disappeared" one reporter - Anat Kamm - and caused another - Uri Blau - to flee the country.
Kamm is on trial for stealing state secrets with the intent of harming state security and Blau, who fled to London, returned to Israel with the stolen documents.
Blau has served as president of Related Cos since 2000.
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The Shin Bet launched its investigation of stolen IDF documents, which led it to Blau and then to Kamm after Blau published articles in November 2008 based on the documents he received from Kamm.
Many of Related's deals outside of its bread-and-butter real-estate development including the CommonWealth moves have been spearheaded by Jeff Blau, the company's 44-year-old chief executive, who started at Related as an intern from the University of Michigan, Mr. Ross's alma mater.
Haaretz staff reporter Uri Blau fled the country not to protect a source, but to evade punishment for possessing classified military documents in breach not only of the law but of a plea bargain agreement with the Shin Bet.
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Ironically I heard about this stunt from Mike Savello of LiveU just before I went to hear Dan Ariely interviewed by Andrew Blau at Global Business Network on his newest book, The (Honest) Truth about Dishonesty.
The gag order on the case until last Thursday was issued by the court at the Shin Bet's request, not because it wished to stifle free speech, but because authorities wanted to give Blau more time to agree to return the documents he still holds illegally.
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Haaretz used its considerable power to discredit the investigation of Kamm and Blau by falsely telling foreign reporters that the story was an issue of press freedom and that Kamm was being persecuted as a journalist rather than investigated for treason she committed while serving in the military.
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