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Bing Revamps Business Listings to Boost Local Growth
 Bing has repeatedly said their main focus isn’t traditional search--helping users find information. It’s helping consumers complete tasks, like finding restaurants or movies. As such, local listings...
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Google Music Roundup: $25 Million PushLife Acquisition, Negotiation Rumors...
Finally! Some more substantial evidence that Google is readying a music service! For years, rumors have been trickling in that the search giant plans to create a cloud-based subscription music service...
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Fracking, Natural Gas's Dirty Secret
Ethonomic Indicator of the Day: 45% -- The amount of fracked natural gas the U.S. will use in 2035.Natural gas is the good-looking younger brother to much maligned nonrenewable resources like coal and...
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Amazon Debuts Kindle for $114, Packed With Visa, Olay, Buick Ads, Sponsored...
The ad-fortified Wi-Fi-only e-reader will save you $25 but beg you to ultimately spend more with its sponsors. Then again, you're used to solicitations in your digital reading, aren't you? (Hint: Look...
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Hacking the WiiMote to Make a Mini Segway on the Cheap
A young hacker has built a mini Arduino-controlled self-balancing robot that looks for all the world like a mini Segway. It's remote-controlled by a WiiMote, it's cheap, and the chap in question is...
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Why Timberland Failed to Meet Its CO2 Emissions Reduction Targets (and You...
Timberland is being refreshingly honest about not hitting its greenhouse gas-reduction goals. "We have to fix our business process fundamentally," CEO Jeff Swartz tells us. If they can't do it, though,...
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Hacking Education: DonorsChoose.org Wants to See if Teachers Know Best
It's the fashion these days to blame teachers for everything that is wrong with American education. But teachers are still the people in our schools every day, and they know what our schools are...
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Google Games vs. Microsoft's Imagine Cup: Clash of the Headgear
Which tech giant is winning the hearts and minds (but maybe not the wallets) of students?The past weekend saw two similar events at two very different companies. Both Microsoft and Google, in an effort...
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Wireless Charging for Electric Cars Is Cool but Totally Unnecessary
Why do we demand things of electric cars that we would never demand of normal ones?Do you ever wish that your car was magically filled with gas every morning when you woke up? Do you ever wish that you...
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Amazon's Ad-ed Value Kindle, the First Step to Ad-Supported E-Reading
 Amazon just revealed a $114 ad-supported Kindle e-reader--a savings of $25 on the regular price of the device. It comes with a ton of questions. "Millions of people are reading on Kindle," Amazon...
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NPR Launching Centralized Online Ad Network to Bolster Revenue at Member...
While NPR fights a defunding battle, the network unleashes a new weapon: A proprietary advertising network that will allow geo-targeted sponsoring of live streams.While NPR is facing funding battles in...
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The 10 Most Innovative Companies in Energy
01 / SolarCity >> For being the nation's leading installer of rooftop solar panels. In sum, SolarCity has placed more than 10,000 solar rooftops--10% of the total in the U.S. Its major clients...
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Carbon-Fiber iDevices? We Think Not
According to new information that's allegedly leaking from Apple, Steve Jobs is intent on pushing for wireless iDevice syncing. Better Wi-Fi connections thanks to a carbon fiber chassis may be the...
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Letters From Sea: A Recap of This Weekend's Summit at Sea Conference
Three days. One boat. Countless Gen Y entrepreneurs. No free Wi-Fi. And only a rickety proprietary social network run by the cruise line to keep everyone connected. Stuff's about to get ......
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Dropped-Call Rage May Abate Thanks to Cellphone Signal Advances From MIT
By using the host of position-relating sensors in modern smartphones, scientists at MIT think they could make the phones and network perform better so your calls don't drop when you're on the move.When...
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Facebook Wall Secrets Revealed, Romney Announces Prez Run on YouTube,...
The Fast Company reader's essential source for breaking news and innovation from around the web--updated all day.California Mandates More Renewable EnergyA new law mandates that energy companies...
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Greasy, Humdrum Ballpark Food? Think Again.
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The 10 Most Innovative Companies in Gaming
01 / Zynga >>For dominating--and monetizing--the social-gaming industry. The largest social-games developer in the world touts hundreds of millions of monthly active users on FarmVille, Treasure...
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Google Sinks $100 Million Into World's Largest Wind Project
Is Google a search engine, an ad outfit, or a clean energy company? Every day it gets a little harder to answer that question. Remember last week when Google announced that it is investing $168 million...
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Ugandan Government To Order Blocking of Facebook, Twitter To Quash Protests
The Ugandan government, facing social unrest over high food and fuel prices, will order its ISPs to block Twitter and Facebook. It's the latest move in controlling social media to control a popular...
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