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Facebook Employees Made So Much Money From The IPO, Their County Is Now The...
Facebook went public in May 2012 and its IPO was expected to turn 1,000 of its employees into millionaires. These millionaires may have made the county where they live and work, San Mateo, the best...
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A Petition To Let Tesla Sell Cars Directly To Drivers In Every State Has Over...
The fans have spoken: Over 100,000 people have now signed a White House petition asking for Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA] to be allowed to sell its cars directly in all fifty states.Started by one Tesla...
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Volvo Is Developing A Car That Valet Parks Itself
Volvo is among the slew of companies working toward a future where human drivers are unnecessary, and the Swedish automaker known best for making safe cars is taking another step forward.In a recently...
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What America Will Look Like Under 25 Feet Of Seawater, Part 2
As global sea level rises, coastal cities and islands face a growing risk of being washed away. Artist Nickolay Lamm, from self-storage search engine StorageFront.com, previously produced images to...
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CHART OF THE DAY: How Samsung's Galaxy Sales Compare To The iPhone (AAPL)
Samsung has reportedly shipped its 20 millionth Galaxy S4 recently. To put that in context, The Verge made this chart. As you can see, Samsung's S4 sales aren't anywhere near as strong as the iPhone 5,...
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A Startup CEO Claims He's Being 'Cyber-Bullied' By The Craigslist CEO
George Eid, founder and CEO of Krrb.com, says that Craigslist has been putting his startup "through the ringer" since February and threatening it with lawsuits, in a phone call with Business...
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Google To Glass Users: Have Fun, But Maintain Eye Contact And Don't Act Like...
Google Glass, Google's upcoming wearable computer, isn't available to the public yet, but Google has already seen fit to dispel some of the urban legends that have sprung up about the wearable...
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The Guy Who Invented The Computer Mouse Died Yesterday
Doug Engelbart, a key figure in computing history probably most remembered for inventing the computer mouse, died of kidney failure yesterday, reports Tech Crunch.He was 88 years old.Wired conducted an...
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$150,000 Subscription Service For The Super Rich Delivers 'Mystery Gifts' To...
Beauty fans can get monthly packages from Birchbox. Pet lovers have BarkBox.And now there's a subscription service for the super rich called BlackBox, which delivers occasional "mystery gifts" to your...
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The 10 Types Of Reddit Users Everyone Hates
Reddit can be a great place to go for interesting content and good conversation. Most sections of the site, or "subreddits," consistently feature entertaining and informative content.But sometimes it...
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Two Senators Lay Smackdown On Purported Effectiveness Of NSA Domestic Spying...
Last night U.S. Senators Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Mark Udall (D-Colo.), who both sit on the Senate Intelligence Committee, called out the intelligence community in a joint statement.The release was in...
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Microsoft's Big Re-Org Could Come Next Week With These Four Execs Gaining...
CEO Steve Ballmer could announce his reorganization plan by next week, reports Businessweek's Dina Bass.Ballmer is recasting Microsoft as a "devices and services" company trying to put the company's...
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Bill Gates Was A Huge Fan Of Xobni, The Email Startup That Yahoo Just Bought...
Xobni, the email startup Yahoo just acquired, was once glowingly described as "the next generation of social networking" by Bill Gates, and reportedly came close to being acquired by Microsoft. Xobni...
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Microsoft Will Pay Ex-Windows Boss Steven Sinofsky For His Unvested Stock...
Microsoft has agreed to cash out 418,361 shares of unvested stock awarded to ex-Windows boss Steven Sinofsky before he left the company on November 12, 2012.If all of them were paid out today, with the...
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Jay-Z's $5 Million Samsung Deal Will Change Music Forever
Record companies have spent more than a decade keening that free music was the subsidence in their basement and the dry rot in their rafters – so they are unlikely to be grandstanding about the fact...
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Dell Wants To Launch Wearable Computers To Compete With iWatch Or Google Glass
Struggling computer maker Dell is considering a move into the "wearable computing" space, as it grapples with the effects of a shrinking PC market.Sam Burd, Dell's global vice-president of personal...
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ANALYST: Hot Mobile Game Candy Crush May Be Generating 'Hundreds Of Millions...
Candy Crush, the cutesy puzzle game that encourages users to put three objects together in a row and clear 385 levels, is all the rage. While it's free to play, there are numerous tempting ways users...
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Israeli Startups Hope For Gold Rush After Google's $1 Billion Acquisition of...
JERUSALEM (AP) — The billion-dollar sale of navigation company Waze to Google may finally be putting Israel on the map as a major player in consumer Internet innovation.Israel's high-tech sector has...
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The US Government Spent $630,000 To 'Buy' Facebook Fans
The US State Department was Wednesday under fire for spending $630,000 over two years to win millions of "likes" on its Facebook pages at a time of severe government austerity measures.A scathing...
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This MIT Project Lets You 'Spy' On Your Own Email Metadata, Just Like the NSA
A lot of people are freaked out by the idea that the NSA has for years been collecting data from ordinary Americans' email accounts. Nobody likes the idea of the feds combing through their email.But...
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