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2 hrs ago | WinBeta

Microsoft and Google now working together after Windows Phone YouTube app controversy

Microsoft and Google are now working together to create a new YouTube app for Windows Phone 8, after an issue that arose between the two companies over the app.

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6 hrs ago | WHIO

Automaker Tesla takes fight to North Carolina

Tesla Motors is fighting a bill in North Carolina that would effectively ban the company from selling its electric cars in the state, pitting it against auto dealers who say the car maker has an unfair advantage selling directly to consumers online.

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Related Topix: North Carolina Government, North Carolina, Tesla Motors, Auto Dealers

8 hrs ago | Sunday Herald

It cost 440 in 1976, now Apple 1 computer sells for record 441K

One of Apple's first computers, a functioning 1976 model, has been sold for a record 516,000 euros .

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Related Topix: Computers, Apple, Jobs, Steve Jobs

10 hrs ago | EDGE

Report: Milk Stamp Set for 2014

The United States Postal Service will reportedly release a stamp featuring the late gay San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk in 2014.

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Related Topix: Drama Movies, Comedy Movies, Milk, Gay/Lesbian, San Francisco, CA, Apple, US Politics, Nancy Pelosi, US News, US House of Representatives, Democrat

14 hrs ago | Blackpool Citizen

Murder provokes backlash across UK

The murder of soldier Lee Rigby has provoked a backlash of anger across the UK, including the attacking of mosques, racial abuse and comments made on social media.

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Related Topix: Social Software, Facebook

18 hrs ago | WBAL-TV Baltimore

Google's quest to get more women in tech

Google is a company focused on problem solving. It has untold amounts of computing power at its disposal working away to try and solve big problems.

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Related Topix: Google, Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Larry Page

Fri May 24, 2013

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Investors consider life after Fed stimulus

The bull market hit a speed bump this week as investors begin to consider what life will be like when the Federal Reserve starts to taper off its long-standing asset purchasing program.

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Related Topix: Memorial Day, Life, Holidays, Financial Markets, G!, Video Games, Facebook, Social Software

Seattle Times

Details on how News Corp. split will work

News Corp. is planning to split into two companies. One company will operate as a newspaper and book publisher and will retain the News Corp.

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Related Topix: Publishing, Media, News, IGN Entertainment, News Corporation, Television, Ottaway Newspapers, Fox Filmed Entertainment, FOX News Network

Reuters

Yahoo joins growing list of bidders for Hulu: sources

Yahoo Inc has submitted a formal proposal to buy Hulu, joining a growing list of bidders for the video service owned by News Corp and Walt Disney Co, two sources with knowledge of the bid told Reuters on Friday.

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Related Topix: Yahoo!, Tumblr, Directv, Cable & Satellite

Detroit News

Netflix looks to hook subscribers with new 'Arrested Development'

Netflix is hoping this weekend's release of the resurrected TV series ' Arrested Development ' will draw more subscribers to its Internet video service.

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Related Topix: Netflix, Emmy Awards, Entertainment, Television, Hip-Hop, Arrested Development, Comedy, Audio and Video

PC World

Google plans to beef up its SSL encryption keys

SSL certificates are used to encrypt communication and verify the integrity of another party with which a user is interacting.

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Related Topix: Google

The Hartford Courant

Salesforce.com's quarterly results disappoint Wall Street

Salesforce.com Inc's quarterly earnings and outlook disappointed investors as costs rise following a spree of acquisitions, sending its shares lower.

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Related Topix: Salesforce.com, Salesforce, Application Service Providers, Cloud Computing, Science / Technology, Ansonia, CT

Digital Video Editing

ITC says Microsoft did not violate Google patent

Microsoft Corp won a round in a complex patent war on Thursday when the International Trade Commission said the company's popular Xbox entertainment system did not violate a patent owned by Google subsidiary Motorola Mobility.

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Related Topix: Microsoft, Google, Microsoft Xbox, Video Games, 4Home

Thu May 23, 2013

ComputerWorld

Intel claims Haswell will offer 50 per cent more battery life in laptops

Intel's upcoming family of Core processors, code-named Haswell, will offer 50 per cent more battery life in laptops than did their Ivy Bridge predecessors, according to the company.

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Related Topix: Intel, McAfee, CPU, Science / Technology, World News, Taiwan

Seattle Times

Lawyer: NY man at center of HIV scare not positive

Nushawn Williams, a New York drug dealer imprisoned amid accusations he infected 13 young women with HIV in the 1990s, does not have the virus that causes AIDS, according to his attorney, who said he arranged for a new blood test as part of efforts to get him released from prison.

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Related Topix: Publishing, Media, IGN Entertainment, News Corporation, Century Media Records, Television, Ottaway Newspapers, FOX News Network, Music

EDGE

Rue21 Agrees to Go Private in Nearly $1B Deal

Clothing and accessories company Rue21 has agreed to be taken private in nearly $1 billion deal with private equity firm Apax Partners.

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Related Topix: Apax Partners, Warrendale, PA

Northern Michigan News

Google to add Galapagos Islands to Street View

Few have explored the remote volcanic islands of the Galapagos archipelago, an otherworldly landscape inhabited by the world's largest tortoises and other fantastical creatures that inspired Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.

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Related Topix: Google, Emerging Technology, Search Engines, World News, Ecuador, Mountain View, CA

KCRA-TV Sacramento

Chrysler jabs Tesla over loan repayment

Chrysler Group and Tesla Motors, run by two of the most outspoken CEOs in the auto industry, are trading zingers over the help each company received from the federal government.

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Related Topix: Chrysler Group, Tesla Motors, Department of Energy, Economics News, Bankruptcy

WISN-TV

Spectacular tech 'firsts' up for auction

In this era of ever-accelerating technological development, we all tend to be so fixated on the gizmos of the future that we rarely take the time to think about the glorious technology of the past.

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Related Topix: CPU, Science / Technology, Apple, Computers, World News, Germany, Inventions, Jobs

WANE-TV Fort Wayne

Aussie minister sorry hea

An Australian politician says he has learned a valuable lesson in social networking after he "liked" a Facebook photo without realizing that it showed a teenage prankster exposing himself.

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Related Topix: Social Software, Facebook, Offbeat

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