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iFive: Sony Hacked Again, Gmail Scam Hit White House, Facebook Vs. Ceglia, Adobe Vs. Apple, Sales Tax Going Online

Monday's when we finally hear all about Apple's cloud services offering iCloud. We don't know much, but thanks to enterprising photographers at the Moscone West center where Apple's event will be held, we now know what the logo looks like

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Dark Clouds: Quickbooks Payroll Outage

This was a bad week for Intuit. But, it was even worse for employees who count on Intuit's Quickbooks payroll services to process their direct deposit paychecks via the cloud. Unfortunately, the "cloud" had an outage just in time for the first of the month

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Crazy Sexy Windows 8 Has Scorching Hot New Looks … But It’s What’s Inside That Counts

Microsoft's Steve Sinofsky showed off Windows 8 at AllThingsD's conference Wednesday night . It's all flashy and color, with Windows Phone 7-like dynamic homescreen "panels" from its Metro UI which contain updating information available at a glance from the apps they relate to.

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Tech Pioneer Becomes Obama Campaign CTO

If there was any doubt the Obama re-election campaign was going to stomp into new digital territory in the upcoming race, it was erased by today’s announcement that it is appointing uber-hipster and tech rebel Harper Reed as the organization’s CTO. Reed, who is 33 according to the Chicago Tribune , is the former CTO of Threadless, an online clothing company that pioneered crowdsourced design

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This Is What The U.S. AIDS Epidemic Looks Like

A new interactive map of U.S. cases shows that HIV is probably more prevalent in your neighborhood than you think. It has been just 30 years since the first cases of HIV were diagnosed

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Do You Need Recurring Revenue?

John Warrillow, author of Built to Sell, answers questions from readers about building a sellable business.

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Robots With Laser Vision, Ford’s New $100M Investment [Video]

Ford's new army of laser-sighted robots has the very benevolent aim of reducing wind noise in your next car. As Henry Ford famously wrote of his fledgling automotive company a century ago, "We shall lead the nation in its race to build an army of robots with laser vision." OK, Henry Ford did not write that, famously or otherwise, which is why we scratched our heads upon learning this morning that Ford is investing $100 million in, well, an army of robots with laser vision.

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China’s Real Estate Bubble Is Making Your Cell Phone Obsolete–And Valuable

In the latest installment of Butterfly Effect, we follow the impact of China's bulging real estate market on commodities such as copper, the latest tech innovations those commodities enable, the scrap they create, and the subsequent recycling opportunities--in China. 1.

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NeighborGoods Aims To Be A Prettier, More Social, Community-Generating Craigslist

A social network for renting and borrowing aims to bring the concept of "sharing" back into the real world. NeighborGoods , the SXSW Accelerator winner for Best Bootstrapped Startup, wants to revitalize neighborly sharing by offering communities a brilliantly practical incentive to interact: everyone else's unused stuff.

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