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Giving Voice to the Internet

Serial entrepreneur Chris Andrews, with his new start-up SoundLink, is ready to revolutionize the Internet, againthis time with voice. About five years ago , Chris Andrews calculated how many times his fingertips would hit a plastic keyboard over the course of his life—roughly 100 million

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Travelers sets up well for 1st-time wins

CROMWELL, Conn. (AP) - Bubba Watson won his first PGA Tour title last year in the Travelers Championship, becoming the third player in five seasons to break through at the event.

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Kerr ready to defend major title at Locust Hill

Cristie Kerr's dream turned into reality last year, winning the LPGA Championship in near-record fashion. She's ready to see if her sweet swing can do it again.

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The Cloud Wars: With Google Docs, Box.net Takes On Microsoft

With the market for cloud-based enterprise services expected to grow to $35.6 billion by 2015, the battle for control of the clouds is heating up, with tech giants such as EMC, Apple, Cisco, IBM, and Microsoft elbowing for market share. But don't forget about scrappy underdog Box.net

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Anatomy Of A Cannes Winner: NTT DoCoMo Xylophone

Anatomy of a winner takes us through the key decisions that took a piece of work from good to great--and won the campaign for NTT DoCoMo Touch Wood SH-08C a Golden Lion at Cannes.

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Google Takes On Skype, Daily Deals Snag First-Time Customers, Shazam Raises $32 Million

The Fast Company reader's essential rundown of who's breaking into and shaking up your tech space--updated all day. Google Takes On Skype With Chrome Addition Google wants to add open-source video and telephony technology to the Chrome browser, meaning that anyone could use the code to integrate free (or reduced) calling into a browser interface. So far, Google's previous attempt at VoIP inside Gmail, Google Voice , hasn't dethroned Skype, its closest competitor

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Square Adds Former Obama Economic Advisor Larry Summers To Its Board

It looks like Square 's ambitions are growing. Just recently, it added VC superstar Vinod Khosla to its board of directors. Now comes an announcement that former Obama Chief Economic Advisor (and former Harvard president) Larry Summers is also coming on board

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BankSimple: A Bank That Doesn’t Suck

BankSimple’s dream team (left to right, from top): Thomas Lockney, engineer; Shamir Karkal, CFO; Bill DeRouchey, creative director; Josh Reich, CEO; Toby Sterrett, engineer; Brian Merritt, operations; Alex Payne, CTO; and Ian Collins, engineer. Inside BankSimple's quest to put user experience above all else. "LET'S START a retail bank." That was the email subject line that greeted Jerry Neumann, a venture capitalist, one morning in 2009

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