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Machine readable congressional transcripts will bring the power to find political gaffes to everyone. Forget leaked cables: there's enough juicy political nonsense lurking in the public record to satisfy the 24-hour news cycle until 2012
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Here's the first interactive word cloud we've seen that captures the sense of the Internet as a living, breathing thing. They first caught our attention last week, during the royal wedding--which is saying something. "How does Twitter see the Royal Wedding?" asked The Guardian over at its data blog, and it answered the question with an interactive image featuring most-used words on Twitter--Kate, William, watching, moment, and so on
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Each day, Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here's what we found today. Stocks set to rise after Bin Laden's fall.
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The geopolitical ramifications are, of course, the vastly more important ones, but the world economy shifted slightly last night as word of Osama Bin Laden's death hit the airwaves. If the markets are accurate, we're looking at world where there is less unrest in the Middle East, and, generally, less of a chance of everything coming completely apart at the seams.
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Dr. Phil speaks with Chris Wragge about the issues faced by blended families.
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Osama Bin Laden has been proclaimed dead from a gunshot wound to the head.
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Seemingly minor sores can harbor dangerous staph bacteria. Here's what to look for on your skin
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"The United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden," President Barack Obama has just announced.
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Last week, French oil and gas giant Total spent an attention-grabbing $1.4 billion for a majority stake in U.S solar company SunPower .
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1. As well as being early in breaking the news about the death of Osama Bin Laden, Twitter was apparently the place the news was covered in real time -- albeit unwittingly .
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