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Google, Facebook Are Uneasy Allies On New Taskforce

As in Marvel’s The Avengers, there are some uneasy relationships between the members of a new task force to fight shady advertising practices on the web.

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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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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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CellScope Develops Digital First Aid Kit

CellScope, which was born in a UC Berkeley bioengineering lab, has secured $1 million from Khosla Ventures to develop hardware and software that could push the limits of remote health care services

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Is Elon Musk A Real Life Tony Stark? [Infographic]

Elon Musk recently made headlines when his space venture, SpaceX, completed the first commercial space flight. Is the ambitious entrepreneur the closest thing we have to billionaire playboy Tony Stark?

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Comcast To Litigious Pornographers: Don’t Shake Down Our Customers

Comcast has refused to hand over identifying data on users accused of downloading copyrighted material, arguing that the plaintiffs were using the court system to identify targets.

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