Information Technology
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Mobile startups worth $800 billion combined is sign of bubble
Sep 12, 2015 7:44 am - The number of mobile Internet startups with valuations crossing $1 billion has jumped by a third in just eight months and that's spelling trouble for some venture capita...
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Security tool can secretly take photos of the person trying to hack you
Sep 12, 2015 7:44 am - Have you ever gotten an email warning that someone is trying to hack into your account and wondered: Who is doing this to me? A password manager called LogMeOnce now giv...
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Online advertising predicted to top TV by 2017Sep 12, 2015 7:43 am - For years, TV executives and industry analysts had scoffed at predictions of doom. But now, with declining ratings and ad revenue, they are in greater agreement that the...
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Apps for powerful women
Sep 12, 2015 7:41 am - It's not hard to find women sprinting down a trail or holding a tree pose in any number of fitness apps, but there is a striking dearth of ladies demonstrating dead lift...
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Before YouTube and online classes, there were the Great Courses
Sep 12, 2015 7:40 am - Before YouTube and online classes, there were the Great Courses cassettes that delivered college-level lecture series to the nearest tape deck. The Teaching Company, the...
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Google searches show the change in how America feels about gay marriage
Sep 12, 2015 7:39 am - America has pretty much chilled out about gay marriage. That, at least, is what our Google searches seem to say. The folks at Google's NewsLab gave us the most popular g...
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Does Apple's pencil mean the stylus is back? Nope. It never left
Sep 12, 2015 7:38 am - Remember how Steve Jobs mocked the idea of a stylus back in 2007 when launching the first iPhone? After Apple introduced its new stylus - er, Pencil - Wednesday in San F...
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How copyright is killing your favorite memes
Sep 12, 2015 7:38 am - Socially Awkward Penguin is arguably one of the most recognizable memes on the Internet. The blue-backgrounded image of the off-balance penguin - superimposed with funny...
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Netflix sets sights on Asian markets
Sep 12, 2015 7:37 am - LOS ANGELES - Netflix plans to enter Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and South Korea early next year as the online video-streaming company races to complete a global rollou...
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Apple makes sure no iPad is left behind
Sep 12, 2015 7:36 am - Don't knock Apple for offering up a bunch of new products -- an iPhone, iPad and Apple TV -- that look a lot like its old ones or copy the competition. What the company ...