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Three Topics Obama, Zuckerberg Will Avoid At Facebook Town Hall
When Air Force One touches down in San Francisco this afternoon, it's unlikely President Obama will be nervously studying talking points and policy 3x5s en route to Facebook, where he'll be holding an...
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Houston Grandma Is Nation's First "Super Wi-Fi" Adopter
Granny leaves the rest of us behind, with her new long-distance, brick-wall-smashing Wi-Fi.A Houston grandma, Leticia Aguirre, is believed to be the first residential user of so-called "Super Wi-Fi."...
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One Year After The BP Oil Disaster, What Has Changed?
It has been a year since BP helped make the ultimate oil company screw-up: blowing up an offshore oil rig, killing 11 workers, and then unloading 170 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. As...
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Apple Earnings Appetite Whetter: Verizon Not Cannibalizing AT&T's iPhone
AT&T's smartphone business is booming, according to the lastest numbers--with the iPhone in the lead. Verizon's iPhone seems not to be cannibalizing AT&T's sales in the way some...
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Cancer Patients To Receive Highly Personalized Care, Thanks To Genome Sequencing
Whole-genome sequencing is helping doctors target care. And as the technology becomes more affordable, new studies are showing just what that looks like.A more promising era of cancer treatment may be...
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What Apple's Balance Sheet Will Reveal About The Tech Industry
Apple's due to reveal all in its second-quarter call tonight at 5 p.m. EDT. The statistics will be telling, since they encompass the Verizon iPhone and the iPad 2's early sales. Here's what to look...
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Behind The Mystery Of Spam Tweets Clogging Syrian Protesters' Streams
Syrian democracy activists on Twitter have found themselves threatened and spammed by mystery accounts. Now one prominent opposition figure claims the Syrian government may be involved.Protests in...
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What LeBron James And The Miami Heat Teach Us About Teamwork
LeBron James He’s the self-proclaimed king of the NBA, a twotime league MVP who is used to getting his way. But he has yet to win a championship—and critics say he’s uncoachable.Dwyane Wade The Miami...
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Apple Can't Keep Up With iPad Demand
Apple sold almost 5 million iPads around the world last quarter. But it still couldn't make them fast enough to meet demand.Apple sold almost 5 million iPads during its March quarter—and it still...
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Josh Nesbit On The Power Of Mobile Phones In Haiti
Photograph by Douglas SondersJosh Nesbit CEO, Cofounder, Medic Mobile Washington, D.C. Nesbit, 24, uses mobile phones and open-source software to bridge gaps in health care in low-resource settings....
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iFive: Obama's "Fun" Science, Facebook Lost iPhone Deal, Iran's Space Monkey,...
1. Barack Obama once promised to have a science-friendly presidency, And at his ground-breaking town hall on Facebook, he promised more science. Specifically he wants to "start making science cool" and...
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Walmart Could Easily Pay Its Workers $12 An Hour
Ethonomic Indicator of the Day: $12 - The minimum wage Walmart could pay its workers without affecting prices.Walmart is plowing through its global responsibility goals, cutting down on plastic waste,...
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Billions Of Dollars In Acquisitions: A Breakdown Of eBay's E-Commerce Strategy
In the last year or so, eBay has spent billions acquiring a slew of companies to expand its role in the ever-growing ecommerce space. Yesterday, the online-shopping giant added one more startup to its...
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Environmental WikiLeaks: Greenpeace Crowdsources Research Of Secret BP Documents
Greenpeace is on a mission to expose major corporations and government agencies involved in shady activities--and it wants your help. Greenpeace is on a mission to expose major corporations and...
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Wanted: A Practical Laptop Pedestal
The A-stand is a rugged ergonomic stand for your laptop that packs flat, assembles fast, and boasts a little Danish design cred.If the sight of anything flat-packed makes your skin crawl, then you've...
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Laser Spark Plugs: The Internal Combustion Engine's Last Bid For Relevance?
Fitting a gasoline-powered car engine with frikkin' laser spark plugs may seem like one sci-fi step too far, but since it improves the combustion and cleans-up the exhaust, it may be the gas engine's...
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Baked In: Vail Resorts' EpicMix Scores Customer Loyalty By Tracking Slope Skills
Social networking in a powdery paradise.About the "Baked In" series: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg likes to say that social dynamics are going to work their way into every industry, and the companies of...
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Leadership Hall Of Fame: Marcus Buckingham, Author Of "First, Break All The...
We continue our examination of the business book First, Break All the Rules with an interview of author Marcus Buckingham. Why did he write the book, and why are managers more important than leaders?...
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Lady Gaga, Zynga May Join Forces On Promo Deal, Global Dominance. FameVille,...
ZynGaga! What would a Zynga/Gaga collaboration look like? We have a few ideas.Lady Gaga and Zynga, the wildly successful online gaming company behind FarmVille, are in talks regarding a possible...
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In An Apple-Dominated World, Amazon's Rumored Android Tablet Faces Hurdles
New data suggests that in Europe, iOS is twice as big a market as Android, and the news comes as rumors resurface about Amazon's Android tablet hopes. It would seem the bookselling giant has an uphill...
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