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Automakers in a race for buyers of mid-size family cars

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Los Angeles Times - By Jerry Hirsch - Jan. 11 (News Report) - Ford, GM, Honda and Nissan are all rolling out revamped models this year, with added features and better gas mileage.

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Google's Social Move Attracts Critics - NYTimes.com

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - Jan. 10 (News Report) - After Google announced that it was integrating material from Google+ into its search results, the Web shot back, attacking the company and accusing it of pushing aside competing social networks, including Twitter and Facebook.

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The Apologies of Zuckerberg: A Retrospective

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Wall Street Journal - By Liz Gannes - Nov. 29 (News Analysis) - At this point, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s pattern on privacy is clear. Launch new stuff that pushes the boundaries of what people consider comfortable. Apologize and assure users that they control their information, but rarely pull back entirely, and

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Amazon's Kindle Fire just nuked the tablet market: Winners and losers

Wed, 28 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

ZDNet - By Larry Dignan - Sep. 28 (News Report) - Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos took the stage Wednesday to unveil an arsenal of devices that are going to disrupt rivals like Barnes & Noble as well as Android tablet makers.

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Justice Department Sues to Block AT&T's Takeover of T-Mobile

Wed, 31 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - By Thomas Catan, Brent Kendall - Aug. 31 (News Report) - The U.S. Justice Department on Wednesday sued to block AT&T Inc.'s proposed $39 billion takeover of T-Mobile USA, saying the combination of the second- and fourth-largest U.S. cellphone companies would hurt competition and likely raise prices. The antitrust challenge comes shortly after the Obama administration also blocked Nasdaq OMX Group's proposed offer for NYSE Euronext and shows its desire to put new teeth into antitrust enforcement after what it says was lax enforcement under the previous administration.

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Report: Global Cyberattack Under Way for 5 Years

Thu, 04 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - By Mark Hamrick - Aug. 04 (News Report) - A computer security firm says cybercriminals have spent at least the past five years targeting more than 70 government entities, nonprofit groups and corporations around the world to steal troves of data.

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Every Bug, Every Gas, Right Now: Air Force Wants Instant WMD Detector

Wed, 03 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Wired - By Lena Groeger - Aug. 03 (News) - Spurred by the anthrax hysteria of 2001, the U.S. government has thrown billions of dollars into developing new equipment and technologies to detect chemical and biological warfare agents. Now the Air Force has a plan that, if it actually works, would render all those billions obsolete.

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Small bookstores thrive amid change

Wed, 03 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Arizona Republic - By Max Jarman - Aug. 03 (News) - The rise of online bookstores and digital-reading devices such as Kindles and iPads is indirectly fostering a resurgence of independent bookstores.

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Sidestepping Apple: Companies rethink app strategies

Tue, 26 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

CNN - By Tim Carmody - Jul. 26 (News Report) - We all knew that once Apple starting enforcing new rules for in-app purchases, it would change how media companies do business on the iPhone and iPad. Now, we're beginning to see just what that looks like for companies trying to avoid giving a 30% cut to Cupertino. Amazon, Kobo and Barnes & Noble all removed the stores from their iOS applications on Monday, as well as any hyperlinks to or mentions of their online stores.

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Quest for renewable power turns back to water

Mon, 18 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Seattle Times - Jul. 18 (News Report) - The powerful flow of the Mississippi River, which brought destruction to scores living near its flooded banks this spring, is viewed by a new generation of energy entrepreneurs as a reliable alternative way of generating electricity.

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TED's Chris Anderson: the man who made YouTube clever

Sat, 16 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Carole Cadwalladr - Jul. 16 (Special Report) - With his TED Talks series, the former magazine mogul Chris Anderson has racked up 500 million web video views for speeches by academics and technological experts. But that, he says, is only the start of an educational revolution

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Doubt creeps in to tech valuations at Sun Valley

Tue, 12 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Reuters - By Sarah McBride, Yinka Adegoke - Jul. 12 (News) - Trouble is, not every company headed to market this year or next -- Groupon, Zynga, Facebook among them -- may become a Google. And recent high-profile debuts have spooked investors by dipping below their IPO prices.

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Judges in US, Canada approve Nortel patents sale

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Business Week - By Randall Chase - Jul. 11 (News) - U.S. and Canadian judges on Monday approved a $4.5 billion cash bid from a consortium that includes smartphone makers Apple and Research In Motion for thousands of patents held by bankrupt telecom-equipment maker Nortel Networks Corp.

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Atlantis docks at space station on last mission

Sun, 10 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Reuters - By Irene Klotz - Jul. 10 (News Report) - U.S. space shuttle Atlantis arrived at the International Space Station on Sunday to deliver a last batch of supplies to the orbiting outpost on the final flight of the U.S. shuttle program. Commander Chris Ferguson gently eased Atlantis into its parking slip on the station's Harmony node at 11:07 a.m. EDT as the spacecraft soared 230 miles over the Pacific Ocean. "Welcome to the International Space Station for the last time," station flight engineer Ron Garan radioed to the crew. Crews opened Atlantis' hatch less than two hours later and the shuttle's 4-member crew floated through the airlock into the recently completed $100 billion orbital outpost.

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The space shuttle: Into the sunset

Sun, 03 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Economist - Jul. 03 (Special Report) - If the weather holds and there are no unforeseen complications, then early in the morning on July 8th a woman and three men will ascend the launch tower at Florida’s Kennedy Space Centre, strap themselves into Atlantis, the last operational space shuttle, and, as the engines ignite, wait for the countdown to reach zero. Burning thousands of litres of rocket fuel every second and blasting superheated gas into the water-filled trench beneath the pad, the engines will kick up the vast gouts of steam and smoke that characterise a rocket launch.

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Name That Firework

Sun, 03 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

PBS - Jul. 03 (Special Report) - Every year, A Capitol Fourth strives to bring you the best fireworks of any July 4th celebration. But did you know there are more than a dozen types of firework effects? Here are a few of the styles that you may see at the A Capitol Fourth celebration. Peony The most common type of firework, the peony shell type is a spherical break of colored stars that burn without a tail effect.

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Providence Equity to Buy Blackboard for $1.64 Billion in Education Deal

Fri, 01 Jul 2011 08:36:10 -0700

Bloomberg - By Douglas MacMillan - Jul. 01 (News) - Providence Equity Partners Inc. agreed to buy Blackboard Inc. (BBBB), a maker of online educational software, for $1.64 billion. Providence will pay $45 a share in cash for Washington- based Blackboard, the companies said in a statement today. The price represents a 21 percent premium over Blackboard’s closing price on April 18, the day before the company said it would evaluate strategic alternatives, the companies said.

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IBM spends $1.2M on 1Q lobbying

Fri, 01 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Boston Globe - Jul. 01 (News) - IBM spends $1.2M on 1Q lobbying

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Hacker attack cripples al-Qaida on web

Wed, 29 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

MSNBC - By Pete Williams - Jun. 29 (News) - Computer hackers shut down al-Qaida's ability to communicate its messages to the world through the Internet, interrupting the group's flow of videos and communiqués, according to a terrorism expert.

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Obama’s focus on visiting clean-tech companies raises questions

Sun, 26 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Carol D. Leonnig, Joe Stephens, Alice Crites - Jun. 26 (News Report) - With trips that began two months after he took office, President Obama has devoted more than half of his out-of-town private-business visits to promoting a single industry: clean technology, which the president says will lead the nation back to economic prosperity.

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Is Karzai's Accusation That Coalition Forces Are Polluting Afghanistan with Nuclear Material Accurate or an Over-Reaction?

Sat, 25 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Scientific American - By Larry Greenemeier - Jun. 25 (News Report) - President Obama has called for the withdrawal of 33,000 U.S. troops from Afghanistan over the next year and the remaining 68,000 by the end of 2014, but questions linger regarding what the troops are leaving behind after more than nine years of combat. In particular, Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai has accused U.S. and NATO-led coalition troops of littering

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Dark corners of the net

Wed, 15 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - By Jane Wakefield - Jun. 15 (Investigative Report) - Hackers are secretive but they are also social. What can we learn about hackers from the conversations they have online?

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Social Media Join Toolkit for Hunters of Disease

Tue, 14 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Bronwyn Garrity - Jun. 14 (News) - Social media — Facebook, Google, Twitter, location-based services like Foursquare and more — are changing the way epidemiologists discover and track the spread of disease.

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Web domain sale represents a real business opportunity

Sun, 12 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Daily Telegraph - By Emma Barnett - Jun. 12 (News) - At first glance, the topic of internet domain names may not seem important...

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The checkered past of Groupon's chairman

Fri, 10 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Fortune - By Kevin Kelleher - Jun. 10 (News) - Groupon's IPO has brought an uncomfortable spotlight onto Lefkofsky. While some attention focuses on his ambitions as an investor in tech startups, others see a "spotty history" and draw parallels between the past and the present. Lefkofsky's track record, reflecting failures and successes, bears certain hallmarks: rapid revenue growth accompanied by big losses, a penchant to sell stock early on, and lawsuits filed by investors, lenders or customers who feel they have been wronged.

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