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TechCrunch
Taiwan-headquartered Foxconn, the world’s largest electronics manufacturer, will launch up to 10,000 consumer electronics retail stores in China, says China Daily. Until now they have not had a significant retail brand or presence. What will they sell? Probably some of the many products that they build for well known brands, including the ...
JOHN MARKOFF
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NYT
The research agency of the Pentagon is offering a $40,000 prize for finding 10 balloons, a contest with a goal of learning about how people work together online.
Jason Kincaid
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TechCrunch
BillShrink , the startup that looks to help users save money across verticals including cell phones, credit cards, and savings accounts, has just announced that it has grown to 1 million members since its launch in April 2008. Alongside the milestone, the site is also announcing that it has found "$1 billion in savings on everyday bills". That ...
Sarah Lacy
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TechCrunch
Of the hundreds of companies I meet in any given country, I only write about a handful. Sometimes it’s the ones that seem to be copying a US idea, but in reality are building their company in a completely unique—and frequently more profitable—way. Other times, I’m captivated by an idea that’s perfect for an emerging market , but ...
There’s already been quite a bit of ink spilled over the demise of the CrunchPad but I thought I’d add a few drops. My opinion is this: the CrunchPad was a testament to the power of online media and a fascinating study in the ability of new media to enact real changes on the real world. While the product faltered, it’s ...
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Last year, the Cassini spacecraft found solid (haha) evidence for the existence of lakes of liquid methane and ethane on the giant moon Titan. Of course, Titan is barely a moon at all — bigger than Mercury, it would be a planet in its own right if it weren’t orbiting Saturn. It has an atmosphere with almost twice the surface pressure ...
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ASHLEE VANCE
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NYT
European Commission reaction to Oracle’s acquisition of Sun Microsystems has stoked a tricky debate: Can open-source software live up to its populist traditions?
A little while back, a bright fireball lit up the evening sky in Utah. There was a repeat performance just last week, on November 21, this time in South Africa. A CCTV camera captured the dramatic scene:
You might find this suprising, but the top social gaming companies on the iPhone are not the same ones you know of from Facebook and MySpace. Zynga, despite $54.2M in funding, has hardly made a dent on the iPhone. Neither has Playfish, which was recently bought for $300M. Playdom hasn’t done squat, either. Although “the big three”
TechCrunch Europe
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TechCrunch
A round-up from Shakil Khan, effectively Spotify's consigliari today in London opened the kimono a little on where it's at. Speaking at the new NOAH Conference in London, the headline points from his talk were that we can, as we expected, see a U.S. launch in Q1 2010 as well as a launch in Germany and China in Q1/2 (so no pressure then). Spotify ...
TechCrunch Europe
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TechCrunch
There were some interesting panel discussion today at the NOAH conference - a new event in London aimed at presented tech companies to the private equity and banking sector - but the plethora of suited and booted attendees were shocked out of their chairs a little when Klaus Hommels, (one of the first angel investors in Skype, QXL and XING and ...
Most people that science is done by, well, scientists. Men and women in white lab coats buzzing away in a lab somewhere. There are a lot of stereotypes in that description, but the important thing to note here is that science can be done by anyone. You don’t need to be in a lab or at the eyepiece or up to your knees in pond scum to be able ...
Robin Wauters
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TechCrunch
[France] A commercial court in Paris has fined eBay €1.7 million euros (roughly £1.6 million) for allegedly not sticking to an injunction banning users from selling on products of luxury goods conglomerate Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton (LVMH in short). Allowing the LVMH perfumes and cosmetics to be purchased by Frenchmen on its French and UK ...
You’ve probably heard by now that a hacker got into the computer system of some climatologists and grabbed a bunch of files, including private emails, from the scientists. The global warming deniers have been trumpeting these as evidence of purposeful fraud, but in reality they are nothing of the sort. I’ve gotten some emails asking ...
A majority of human resources professionals (54%) make their final decision to hire a person based on “chemistry,” according to a poll released Tuesday by the Society for Human Resource Management. from: Poll: A Majority Hire based on ‘Chemistry’ over at WorkExposedBlog.com I’ve had managers ask me over and over again how to interview ...
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