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Wikipedia reaches fundraising goal, creepy Jimmy Wales face to disappear soon

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John Moe
Jan 3, 2011
Wikimedia, the parent company of the online encyclopedia, says it has met its goal of 16 million dollars raised to keep the site commercial free....
Posted In: business, Web Culture, Wikipedia
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Paul Allen renews lawsuit against everyone everywhere for doing everything

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John Moe
Dec 29, 2010
The Microsoft co-founder has been actively suing the following companies for a while now: Apple, Google, Facebook, eBay, AOL, Netflix, Yahoo,...
Posted In: aol, apple, business, ebay, Google, government, Law, netflix, paul allen, Yahoo
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Groupon raising 950 million dollars, dominating its category

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John Moe
Dec 29, 2010
Maybe Groupon wasn't quite so dumb to turn down that 6 billion dollar offer from Google a while back. The increasingly popular group coupon site...
Posted In: business, Google, groupon, social media
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AT&T to expand Wi-Fi hotspot coverage

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John Moe
Dec 28, 2010
They had been doing this in dense areas like Times Square for a while but AT&T is now expanding this program to more spots around New York and...
Posted In: at&t, business, wifi
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Amazon patents incredibly heartless and useful idea

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John Moe
Dec 28, 2010
Amazon has been awarded a patent for a new way to return unwanted gifts. The current system is pretty cumbersome: you have to repackage the ugly...
Posted In: Amazon, business, government, horrible, patents
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Apple gears up to sell a ton of iPhones. Verizon in the mix?

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John Moe
Dec 27, 2010
Apple expects to sell 21 million iPhones in the first quarter of next year. Before they were estimating 19 million. This increased forecast comes...
Posted In: apple, business, gadgets, iPhone, manufacturing, Verizon
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Skype goes down

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John Moe
Dec 23, 2010
The popular internet telephony service crashed hard yesterday, booting millions of users offline. As of today, the service is staggering back to...
Posted In: business, skype
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Microsoft to launch new OS for tablets and mobile

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John Moe
Dec 22, 2010
It always seemed a little odd to me that Microsoft was said to be launching new tablets that ran on the same year-old operating system that they...
Posted In: apple, business, gadgets, iPad, manufacturing, Microsoft, tablets
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Google Car Alarm Kind Of

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John Moe
Dec 21, 2010
Google is displaying security warnings in its search results. If your results include pages that have been hacked you'll see a message saying "this...
Posted In: business, Google, privacy, search
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Mechanical Turk is 40.92% spam generators

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John Moe
Dec 20, 2010
This according to researchers at NYU. They investigated all new HIT requesters on Amazon's Mechanical Turk site for September and October ...
Posted In: Amazon, business, mechanical turk, privacy, spam, Web Culture

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