Information Technology
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Reddit users donate $80K after Kenya orphanage attackFeb 01, 2012 10:00 pm - NGONG, Kenya — Anthony Omari earned the still-fresh 11-stitch scar that runs from his forehead to his upper lip in one of the noblest ways imaginable: By taking a machet...
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Vevo CEO: Company made $150 million in revenue last yearFeb 01, 2012 4:30 am - DANA POINT, Calif. — Vevo, the online music video service launched by Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment in late 2009, pulled in $150 million in revenue ...
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Engineers create ‘self-guided’ bulletJan 31, 2012 11:00 pm - ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories engineers have invented a bullet that directs itself to a target like a tiny guided missile and can hit a target more th...
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Facebook to go public, raise $5 billionJan 31, 2012 11:00 pm - NEW YORK — Facebook made a much-anticipated status update Wednesday: The Internet social network is going public eight years after its computer-hacking CEO Mark Zuckerbe...
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Sony’s Hirai to replace Stringer as CEOJan 31, 2012 11:00 pm - TOKYO — Sony Corp. announced Wednesday that Kazuo Hirai, who leads the company’s core consumer products business, will replace Howard Stringer as CEO and president as th...
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Apple names European exec to head retail opsJan 30, 2012 11:00 pm - NEW YORK — In its quest to spread its stores around the world, Apple is reaching over the Atlantic to snatch the CEO of a British electronics chain to head its retail op...
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Tellabs cuts 530, including at Naperville headquartersJan 30, 2012 11:00 pm - Tellabs Inc., which makes mobile network infrastructure equipment, said today it is cutting about 530 positions, including at its Naperville headquarters, and it will cl...
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Cosmo’s Brown donating $30M to Columbia, StanfordJan 30, 2012 11:00 pm - NEW YORK — Cosmopolitan magazine’s longtime editor Helen Gurley Brown is donating $30 million to Stanford and Columbia universities to create a bicoastal media “innovati...
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Moto’s foundation director readies for Haiti tripJan 29, 2012 11:00 pm - Matthew Blakely, director of Schaumburg-based Motorola Solutions Foundation, will be making a whirlwind, one-day tour of Haiti, nearly 2 years after the devastating ...
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Teens migrating to Twitter — sometimes for privacyJan 29, 2012 11:00 pm - Teens don’t tweet, will never tweet — too public, too many older users. Not cool. That’s been the prediction for a while now, born of numbers showing that fewer than one...