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Twitter Gives Salesforce Access To 400 Million Tweets For Data Analysis

Twitter says it will partner with customer relationship management outfit Salesforce in a move that will give the latter company access to 400 million tweets for use in data analysis.

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On Alex Kipman: Microsoft Details The History Of Its Most Ingenious Magician

Whether they know it or not, anyone who loves Microsoft’s Kinect owes Alex Kipman — one of the company’s most ingenious technical marvels — some serious kudos.

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Obama: Improve Broadband To Spur Innovation

Obama signed an executive order today designed to make broadband infrastructure cheaper and easier to install, in a move the White House will spur innovation.

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Rockstar Gives Online Cheaters A Taste Of Their Own Medicine

Rockstar has come up with a different approach when it comes to online cheaters. Instead of wielding the banhammer, the company has quarantined hackers in a space where they can only play with one another.

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Google Blows Up ICANN Applications

Some of the world’s largest entities applied for a handful of new ICANN top-levels. Google submitted more than 100.

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How Startups Can Help Protect Your Child Online

After the news that three rapist used social networking application Skout to find their child victims, we take a look at the companies building technologies that help make the Internet safe and age-appropriate for children.

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The End Is Pie? Pizza Vending Machines Coming To U.S.

It sounds like science fiction, but in a development that some gastronomes might argue shifts the genre to horror, Let’s Pizza is a real and growing enterprise in Europe.

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Apple’s Passbook Could Save You A Trip To The DMV, Forever

Apple’s new iOS 6 app Passbook is more than a digital wallet. It’s going to revolutionize digital identification.

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Does 4Chan Reflect Our Culture’s Morals When No One Is Looking?

The Guardian once described the 4Chan community as “lunatic, juvenile… brilliant, ridiculous and alarming.” Can we add to that racist and sexist?

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Microsoft Poised To Acquire Yammer For $1 Billion

A flurry of rumors this week have pointed to the potential acquisition of Yammer by software giant Microsoft. The yet-to-be-confirmed deal may be announced as soon as next week, sources say.

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