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Playbook Prices Slashed After Kindle Fire, Groupon To Launch Groupon Goods?,...
Facebook "Project Spartan" To Launch Next Week? A leaked Facebook mobile developers page has revealed the insides of a new mobile Facebook app, that TechCrunch identifies and confirms to be the rumored...
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Female Geeks Flex Their Skills At Ladies-Only Hackathon
Inside the movement to make the coder community more female friendly.And yes, actual work was accomplished. | Photo by Rebecca Greenfield It's a hot July afternoon in the Hamptons, but the pool at this...
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The Doctor Is Very In: Dr. James Truchard's Quest For Endless Innovation
Dr. T cofounded the technology giant that is National Instruments out of his garage more than 35 years with a $10,000 loan. NI's software and hardware is behind robotics and smart cameras to medical...
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Why Amazon Isn't Sweating Losing Millions On The Kindle Fire
As a tablet, the Kindle fire won't threaten the iPad, even at $199. As a digital catalog and promotional tool for moving Amazon products, it could be revolutionary. When Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos hit the...
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The Science Behind The Drone Terrorism Attack
A Massachusetts physics graduate student and former alt-rock drummer was arrested for planning a terrorist attack on the Pentagon and on the Capitol. But unlike most wannabe terrorists, Rezwan Ferdaus...
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Amazon Channels Apple At Kindle Fire Launch
Yesterday’s Amazon product extravaganza shows how much its slate business has become like Apple’s--and how much it hasn’t.The founder and CEO paced across the stage before a massive screen displaying...
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Foresight Is 20/20: Predictive Analytics And The Business Of Certainty
Want to make really smart decisions for your company? It's simple as looking into the future and assessing the data--a service that a few young companies dealing in "predictive analytics" are...
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The Empowerhouse: An Affordable, Energy Efficient Home Built By College Students
If you're in D.C sightseeing this week, you might want to skip the traditional landmarks in favor of something more novel: 19 of the most cost-effective, energy-efficient, and downright attractive...
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Shared Value Capitalism: A Socially Responsible Way To Improve Quality And...
In a recent New York Times column, author Steve Lohr gives a clear synopsis of the case made earlier this year in the Harvard Business Review for a new form of capitalism, dubbed "shared value," that...
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Work Smart: Overcoming "Reactionary Workflow" To Make Your Vision A Reality
Stop living someone else's to-do list.There's a difference between simply working and pushing forward the bold ideas and large projects that you want to execute. No matter how great the idea is, there...
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Wearing Altruism On Your Sleeve, And Around Your Neck
Inspired by the power of stories, two former journalists have enlisted high fashion for a higher cause. A new jewelry company called Altruette sells charm bracelets representing different nonprofits...
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4 Reasons Why The Smart Grid Has Failed To Take Off
Since performing research for my book, Climate Capitalism (written with Hunter Lovins) a few years ago, I have become increasingly convinced that the smart grid has the potential to be one of the...
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Facebook Won't Like This Apple-Twitter Union
According to Twitter's VP of Engineering, the social site has seen more growth over the last nine months than in the previous five years, and that's nothing to the explosion in use that Twitter's...
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Game Changer
Do games have any place in the training of future journalists? This reporter stages a challenge to students to find out. This fall, I began layering in game mechanics into a graduate journalism course...
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A Solar-Powered Alternative To Insecticides
Organic farmers have a wealth of alternatives to synthetic insecticides--biological pest control, row covers, and even natural insecticides. A company called AgriSolar has a different alternative: a...
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TechStars CEO David Cohen On Giving Startups A $100,000 Shot In The Arm (Or A...
In our Fast Talk series, innovators and entrepreneurs answer questions about making good products and breaking bad news. David Cohen, founder and CEO of the prestigious accelerator TechStars, discusses...
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Apple's NDA Disclosed: Why You Won't See The iPhone 5 Until Tim Cook's Ready
An insider offers new details about the ironclad security around Apple prototypes: private jets, windowless rooms, amorphous storage cases padlocked to tables whose wood grain signatures are...
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China May Become World's Biggest CO2 Emitter By 2017
China is no longer a developing nation, at least in terms of CO2 emissions. The country has graduated to "developed" status, according to a new report claiming that the country could meet or surpass...
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Betabrand's Building A Business On Balderdash And Memes
Betabrand's techies are beating fashionistas at their own game. Memes are helping build this e-commerce business one web-friendly, gimmicky item of apparel at a time.How many memes of dudes mugging for...
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Facebook's 880 Pages About You!
The social network is watching your every move, and your friends. And while it isn't as nefarious as Big Brother, do we really want our profiles to become another marketing space?Imagine arriving home...
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