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There Is Now A Socially Acceptable Way To Call Someone Ugly Or Attractive,...
A new dating app called Tinder was recently brought to our attention.A "normal" person at Business Insider told us about it, and said all of her roommates and college-age friends use it. A few have...
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How 15 Tech Tycoons Spend Their Fortunes
If you'd founded a tech company worth billions of dollars, what would you do with your cash?That's a high-class problem faced by the moguls on this list.Naturally, many of them buy expensive things,...
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Facebook's Real Challenge Is Sharing, Not Searching (FB)
Whatever happened to Zuckerberg's Law?In 2008, Mark Zuckerberg told a tech-conference audience that the amount of information people shared seemed to be doubling every year.It was a bold prediction. It...
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If You Thought Your Status Updates On Facebook Could Be Kept Private, Think...
People post all sorts of status update messages to friends on Facebook, many of which they never intend to make public.But Storify, a social media curation tool, occasionally brings them to light....
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The Inside Story Of How Facebook Got Its First 500 Million Users (FB)
Now that Facebook's IPO is well into the past, and user-growth has stalled a touch, it's easy to sit back and take the incredible story of Facebook for granted.Don't.Facebook, which now has a billion...
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To Live Like A Middle Class Citizen In NYC, You Have To Make At Least $80,000
The New York Times set out to define what "middle class" means in Manhattan.It points out that Manhattan is one of the only places in the world where a housing project can sit next to a luxury...
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1.6 Billion People In The World Don't Have Electricity — So Here's A Cool...
1.6 billion people in the world don't have access to electricity, says the founder of a company called "MPOWERD."These folks and another 1.5 billion people on lousy electrical grids often use...
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Maybe Facebook Wants To Make Every Phone A 'Facebook Phone' (FB)
Facebook rolled out a new feature for the Messenger app on iPhone that lets you make free phone calls to your friends using a WiFi or cellular data connection.There are, of course, a few caveats:It...
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Eric Schmidt's Daughter Describes Their Recent Trip To North Korea
Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt’s daughter Sophie has posted a lengthy account with photos of their recent trip to North Korea. She describes deep government control of the nine-person...
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Samsung Airs Bizarre BlackBerry-Bashing Commercial During NFC Championship Game
Samsung just aired a very strange commercial for its smartphones during tonight's NFC championship game. The goal is to play up the enterprise features of Samsung's Galaxy Note II and Galaxy S III...
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RUMOR: Apple Will Release THREE New iPhones This Year (AAPL)
There's a report out of Asia tonight that Apple is working on three new iPhone models, two of which will be out by June.The report comes from quite a chain of sources. The Commercial Times of Taiwan...
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The Only Empty Apple Store I've Ever Seen [PHOTOS]
Walking through snowy Munich last night, I saw something I've never seen before:An empty Apple store.The store was closed, so it's not surprising that it was empty. But still, that's not something I...
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The Mars Rover Came To Dinner Last Night
There was a schmoozy dinner in the Jewish Museum in Munich last night.The dinner was sponsored in part by Siemens, which I gather built part of the Mars Rover.I gather that because a replica of the...
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An Awesome Photo Of Google Founder Sergey Brin Riding The New York Subway...
Here's an awesome photo of Google founder Sergey Brin on the New York City subway wearing Google Glass(es) and a beanie hat.The photo was taken by Noah Zerkin, who describes himself as a "wearable...
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HOROWITZ: The Most Important Quality In An Entrepreneur Is Not Honesty Or...
Ben Horowitz, a founding partner of Silicon Valley powerhouse venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, made an interesting point at the DLD conference yesterday.Horowitz was running through the...
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PHOTOS: Check Out Facebook's Ever-Changing Headquarters (FB)
It's been just over a year since Facebook employees moved into their new home in Menlo Park, Calif., trading digs near Stanford University for a cluster of buildings close to the San Francisco Bay.But...
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Google Glass Has 3 Big Challenges To Beat (GOOG)
We like Google Glass.When fully realized, we'll essentially have smartphones baked into the frames of our glasses.Accessibility to the internet will be unparalleled and it will be able to overlay...
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Samsung Rips On Blackberry And Business Users In This Hilarious New Ad
Samsung's ads keep getting better and better.Usually the Galaxy-maker is ripping on Apple and its epic product launch lines, but now Samsung has switched its focus to Blackberry and business users. The...
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POLL: Would You Buy An iPhone With A Bigger Screen? (AAPL)
Apple is rumored to be working on a 4.8-inch iPhone, which is the screen size on Samsung's popular S III phone.There's a lot of reasons to be skeptical about it happening. For one, it would be another...
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REVEALED: All The Guest Lists For Silicon Valley's Secret CEO Power Dinners...
After we posted a photo of Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, Apple SVP Jony Ive, and 10 other powerful and connected Silicon Valley executives having dinner, a couple of sources mentioned that these dinners are...
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