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Why Did Google Buy BufferBox? Because The Entire Mail And Package Delivery...

Why Did Google Buy BufferBox? Because The Entire Mail And Package Delivery System Is Broken http://t.co/XhswvpKc by @thatdrew Today, Google bought an Ontario-based company called BufferBox. In a way,...

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Facebook Makes A Huge Data Grab By Aggressively Promoting Photo Sync |...

Facebook Makes A Huge Data Grab By Aggressively Promoting Photo Sync http://t.co/DOetowrx by @joshconstine Facebook was already taking in 300 million photos a day, and that rate is about to...

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What’s Up With WhatsApp? Facebook Might Want To Buy It, That’s What | TechCrunch

What’s Up With Whatsapp? Facebook Might Want To Buy It, That’s What http://t.co/5cx3Xtws by @ingridlunden @alexia Update: WhatsApp still has not responded to us directly but told AllThingsD the...

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Happy Birthday, SMS! | TechCrunch

Happy Birthday, SMS! http://t.co/vwzFW7Co On December 3rd, 1992 in the little town of Newbury, Berkshire, a UK programmer sent his best mate a few lines of greeting using a unique new technique...

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Gift Guide: Mujjo Touchscreen Gloves | TechCrunch

Gift Guide: Mujjo Touchscreen Gloves http://t.co/BpONqxyx by @drizzled The Nokia Lumia 920 can be used with any gloves: it's a miracle. But for the vast majority of other smartphones, that's not the...

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Keen On… Ray Kurzweil: How Computers Will Reverse Engineer The Human Mind By...

Keen On… Ray Kurzweil: How Computers Will Reverse Engineer The Human Mind By 2029 http://t.co/Fou6gpMq A new Ray Kurzweil book is always a major event. And his latest work, How To Create A Mind: The...

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Mary Meeker’s Year-End Trends Report: Mobile & Tablets = 24% Of Online...

Mary Meeker's Year-End Trends Report: Mobile & Tablets = 24% Of Online Shopping On Black Friday, Up 22%... http://t.co/KJ1jbNmZ by @ripemp Kleiner Perkins Partner Mary Meeker published her annual...

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Soundcloud Revamps Site, Announces New Numbers: Reaches 180M Users A Month...

Soundcloud Revamps Site, Announces New Numbers: 180M Users And Counting http://t.co/v9Gy2mif by @mikebutcher It's been a while since we heard new user numbers from the "YouTube of audio" startup...

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It’s All Blurry: CollegeHumor Makes Fun Of Nickelback And Instagram | TechCrunch

It's All Blurry: CollegeHumor Makes Fun Of Nickelback And Instagram http://t.co/IOaphYCW by @jordanrcrook If you were searching for your daily dose of morning hilarity, look no further. CollegeHumor...

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Why Magazine Apps Suck | TechCrunch

Why Magazine Apps Suck http://t.co/99gW9s8r by @parislemon Well, The Daily failed. It wasn’t all that fun while it lasted. And it didn’t last all that long. If everyone had known that it was going to...

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High Profile UK VC Stefan Glaenzer Faces Jail After Sexual Assault Conviction...

High Profile UK VC Stefan Glaenzer Faces Jail After Sexual Assault Conviction http://t.co/ZHsVEUct by @mikebutcher The London tech startup scene has been rocked today by revelations that a major...

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Kindle FreeTime Unlimited Offers Restricted Access To Content For Kids From...

Kindle FreeTime Unlimited Offers Restricted Access To Content For Kids From Disney, Nickelodeon, D... http://t.co/rUnvRzpG by @romaindillet Amazon today launched FreeTime Unlimited, a subscription...

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Time Spent In Mobile Apps Is Starting To Challenge Television, Flurry Says |...

Time Spent In Mobile Apps Is Starting To Challenge Television, Flurry Says http://t.co/6e10KCoT by @kimmaicutler Now that usage of mobile apps has overtaken browsing on the desktop web, it's starting...

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Facebook Changes Name Of Subscribe Feature To “Follow” So People Understand...

Facebook Changes Name Of Subscribe Feature To "Follow" So People Understand Its Just Like Twitter http://t.co/EY4KPKTU by @joshconstine Facebook Subscribe lets you get feed updates from people who...

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They Screwed Us. Right Before They Screwed Us Again. #poohead | TechCrunch

They Screwed Us. Right Before They Screwed Us Again. #poohead http://t.co/zzZktw3w by @arrington We just got screwed. More on this below. Nobody says "Web 2.0" anymore. The term just didn't stand the...

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Tim Berners-Lee’s Open Data Institute Gets Its First Outside Investment,...

Tim Berners-Lee’s Open Data Institute Gets Its First Outside Investment, $750K From The Omidyar Network To Top U... http://t.co/lWcFJQSb The Open Data Institute, a UK-based incubator and promoter of...

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Analyst: Just 25 Developers Grabbed 50% Of App Revenues On U.S. App Store,...

Analyst: Just 25 Developers Grabbed 50% Of App Revenues On U.S. App Store, Google Play Last Month; Ear... http://t.co/rLTpb1Ji by @riptari The apps gold-rush has resulted in the majority of riches...

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Facebook’s Comeback Continues: $FB Set To Replace Infosys On The NASDAQ 100...

Facebook's Comeback Continues: $FB Set To Replace Infosys On The NASDAQ 100 Next Week http://t.co/XiXGUmgG by @ripemp Facebook will replace Infosys on the NASDAQ 100 Index on December 12th, about seven...

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Foursquare Gets Better For Business: You Can Now Add Events To Your Venue |...

Foursquare Gets Better For Business: You Can Now Add Events To Venue http://t.co/eh9LLNhN There are reasons why we go where we go, eat where we eat, and drink where we drink. Maybe it's the ambience,...

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Google Kills Free Google Apps For Business, Now Only Offering Premium Paid...

Google Kills Free Google Apps For Business, Now Only Offering Premium Paid Version To Companies Of All Sizes http://t.co/kXAF4GO6 Google has announced a change to Google Apps for Business -- ending the...

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Dropbox Hires Away Google’s Guido Van Rossum, The Father Of Python | TechCrunch

Dropbox Poaches Google’s Guido Van Rossum, The Father Of Python http://t.co/mdIe2aqQ The original open source software "Benevolent Dictator For Life" and author of Python, Guido van Rossum, is leaving...

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Crowdsourcing Is Booming In Asia | TechCrunch

Crowdsourcing Is Booming In Asia http://t.co/mywY4Auf by @aleclynch Editor's note: Alec Lynch is the founder and CEO of DesignCrowd, an Australia-based design crowdsourcing service that recently...

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Instagram Photos Will No Longer Appear In Twitter Streams At All | TechCrunch

It Appears That Instagram Photos Aren't Showing Up In Twitter Streams At All http://t.co/3n0P7Gnj by @leenarao We're seeing chatter on Twitter that Instagram photos are not showing up in Twitter...

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Half A Million People Voted Against Facebook’s Governance Changes, But Not...

Half A Million People Voted Against Facebook's Governance Changes, But Not Enough As Polls Close T... http://t.co/o3vdKvkn by @joshconstine 615,000 people have cast their ballot in Facebook's vote over...

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$50 Android Smartphones Are Disrupting Africa Much Faster Than You Think,...

$50 Android Smartphones Are Disrupting Africa Much Faster Than You Think, Says Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales http://t.co/NZ0ySkxC by @riptari What phone does Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales have in his pocket?...

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Adobe Brings Retina Display Support To Photoshop And Illustrator CS6 As A...

Adobe Brings Retina Display Support To Photoshop And Illustrator CS6 As A Free Update For All Users http://t.co/SYk2akQe by @drizzled Adobe has made good on its promise to deliver Retina Display...

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Google’s Zeitgeist Reveals Whitney Houston As Top Search Trend Of 2012; iPad...

Google's Zeitgeist Reveals Whitney Houston As Tops Search Of 2012; iPad 3, SOPA, Hurricane Sandy &... http://t.co/K0ZbqALY by @sarahintampa Bing and Yahoo may have already released their respective...

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I Love The Smell Of Sepia Tone In The Morning | TechCrunch

I Love The Smell Of Sepia Tone In The Morning http://t.co/DpW7ze1o by @parislemon In three short weeks it will be 2013. Someone may want to send a fax to Flickr and Twitter to let them know. Over the...

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CEO Brian Chesky Says Airbnb Will Be Filling More Room Nights Than All Hilton...

Cloudera CEO Mike Olson: By December 31st, Airbnb Will Be Filling More Room Nights Than Hilton Hotels http://t.co/xptQXmSk by @ripemp Quoting Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky, Mike Olson told the crowd that, by...

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An Apple-Foursquare Hookup Could Mean The End Of Yelp Reviews In iOS |...

An Apple-Foursquare Hookup Could Mean The End Of Yelp Reviews In iOS http://t.co/BXOpfVdW by @romaindillet Apple SVP of Internet Software and Services Eddy Cue sent an interesting 31st tweet today....

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Google Launches Native Maps For iOS, And Here’s The Deep Dive On Navigation,...

Google Launches Native Maps For iOS, And Here’s The Deep Dive On Navigation, Info Sheets And More: As we hinted ... http://t.co/puie5f4Y TechCrunch is a leading technology media property, dedicated to...

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Facebook Speeds Up Android App By Ditching HTML5 And Rebuilding It Natively...

Facebook Speeds Up Android App By Ditching HTML5 And Rebuilding It Natively Just Like The iOS Ver... http://t.co/gAEJg6qt by @joshconstine Facebook's HTML5 app nightmare is over. Later today it's...

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China Gets The iPhone 5, But Will This Help Apple’s Market Share? | TechCrunch

China Gets The iPhone 5, But Will This Help Apple's Market Share? http://t.co/19NHyLRc by @catherineshu The iPhone 5 made its highly-anticipated arrival in China today, but despite strong pre-orders...

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Ray Kurzweil Joins Google In Full-Time Engineering Director Role; Will Focus...

Ray Kurzweil Joins Google As Engineering Director Focusing On Machine Learning And Language Tech http://t.co/L5U4Oq5t by @loyalelectron Famed inventor, entrepreneur, and futurist Ray Kurzweil announced...

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So What If You Have Big Data? Without Data-Driven Processes And Products,...

So What If You Have Big Data? Without Data-Driven Processes And Products, It's Useless http://t.co/Q78vtObg by @jdegoes Editor's note: John De Goes is co-founder and CEO of Precog, an analytics...

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Twitter Starts Rolling Out Option To Download Your Twitter Archive: Request...

Twitter Starts Rolling Out Option To Download Your Twitter Archive: Request Every Tweet You've Ever Mad... http://t.co/t6LV6F0V by @riptari It looks like Twitter has started rolling out the option to...

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CrunchWeek: Google Brings Maps To iOS 6, Twitter And Instagram’s Photo War, &...

CrunchWeek: Google Brings Maps To iOS 6, Twitter And Instagram's Photo War, & Can Max Levchin Hel... http://t.co/d7DG1Yvz by @loyalelectron It's that time of the week again -- it's CrunchWeek time,...

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A Few Reasons Why You’d Want To Download All Of Your Tweets | TechCrunch

A Few Reasons Why You'd Want To Download All Of Your Tweets http://t.co/MJpCeRxr by @drew Today, we learned that Twitter made good on its promise to start letting its users download all of their tweets...

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National Rifle Association Hides Facebook Page To Avoid Hosting Flame Wars |...

National Rifle Association Hides Facebook Page To Avoid Hosting Flame Wars http://t.co/NgjzJHap by @joshconstine To avoid uncivil debates breaking out on its Facebook Page wall in the wake of the...

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A List Of The Best Annual Tech Startup Events In Europe In 2013 | TechCrunch

A List Of The Best Annual Tech Startup Events In Europe In 2013 http://t.co/rwK8qcbU by @mikebutcher Back in July, we made an attempt at listing the best annual tech startup events in Europe, with some...

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Twitter And Nielsen Announce Partnership To Create New Twitter-Based TV...

Twitter And Nielsen Announce Partnership To Create New Twitter-Based TV Rating http://t.co/qjFppvDB Nielsen and Twitter just announced a deal for something called the Nielsen Twitter TV Rating, which...

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Hands On With Facebook Nearby, A New Local Biz Discovery Feature That...

Hands On With Facebook Nearby, A New Local Biz Discovery Feature That Challenges Yelp And Foursquare http://t.co/29sMhxbE by @joshconstine 250 million Facebook users tag posts with location each month...

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What The Twitter/Instagram Standoff Has Meant For Traffic To Instagram |...

What The Twitter/Instagram Standoff Has Meant For Traffic To Instagram http://t.co/aU7IEcs7 by @ingridlunden When Instagram began to pull its inline previews of photos out of Twitter almost two weeks...

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Twitter Passes 200M Monthly Active Users, A 42% Increase Over 9 Months |...

Twitter Passes 200M Monthly Active Users, A 42% Increase Over 9 Months http://t.co/HOPcx7Ii by @drizzled Twitter has announced via its own official Twitter account that the service now has more than...

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iOS 6 Adoption Grows 29% Over The Weekend As People Finally Update After...

iOS 6 Adoption Grows 29% Over The Weekend As People Finally Update After Google Maps Arrives http://t.co/ZhRw4VEd by @joshconstine Apple Maps was so bad that people refused to upgrade to iOS 6 until...

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Quit Instagram, They Said. They’re Selling Your Photos, They Said. | TechCrunch

Quit Instagram, They Said․ They're Selling Your Photos, They Said․ http://t.co/sqqEgujj by @parislemon The real world: Quit, verb, to leave (a place), usually permanently. The internet: Quit, verb, to...

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Twitter Confirms ‘Download Your Tweet Archive’ Feature Is Being Rolled Out —...

Twitter Confirms 'Download Your Tweet Archive' Feature Is Being Rolled Out http://t.co/U35Vl0vY by @riptari Twitter has confirmed it's rolling out a much sought after feature that lets users download...

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Dropbox Acquires Snapjoy And Puts Photos Into Its Focus | TechCrunch

Dropbox Acquires Snapjoy And Puts Photos Into Its Focus http://t.co/1cvK5hcI by @ingridlunden Less than one week after Dropbox acqui-hired Audiogalaxy to beef up its cloud music ambitions, today comes...

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IFTTT Raises $7M From Andreessen, NEA And Lerer To Connect Web Services, Apps...

IFTT Raises $7M From Andreessen Horowitz For Connector Service http://t.co/0fMp51Ww by @alexwilliams IFTT has received $7 million in funding to build out its capability for customers to move data...

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Adobe Acquires Social Portfolio Platform Behance To Power Its Creative Cloud...

Adobe Acquires Social Media Platform Behance To Power Its Creative Cloud Community Features http://t.co/hOBPlgpM by @fredericl Adobe just announced that it has acquired Behance, a New York-based online...

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