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Poor sanitation can foster transmission of all sorts of nasty bacterial bugs. But a new study has found that among common bacteria, antibiotic resistance is brewing in the New Delhi water supply--and spreading in at least 20 strains, including some that cause dysentery and cholera. [More]

Scrybe Labs has launched Convofy , a new private social network for companies.

1. Darling of the social media scene Twitter just revealed some stats for its recent performance, and they're pretty eye-popping: Over the first quarter of 2011 Twitter's tweet-per-day count grew 41% globally, and 38% in the U.S. Meanwhile from December to March there was a 52% increase in monthly sign-ups, and 155 million tweets per day are going on, up from 55 million at the same time last year.

Read it and tweet : Social media takes a lot of time, but it pays off, says a report released today. Ninety percent of marketers surveyed say that social media is important for their business, with the self employed and small business owners with two or more employees "more likely to strongly agree," says the 2011 Social Media Marketing Report, which surveyed some 3,300 marketers. The No

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Ethonomic Indicator of the Day: 93% of U.S.

It's a horrible paradox that bad things are generally cheaper: Like Big Macs. Or H&M. Top of this list, of course, is coal power, which is really quite horrible for the planet but is also deliciously cheap to produce

The Fast Company reader's essential source for breaking news and innovation from around the web--updated all day. Is Apple Trying to Forget the White iPhone? Apple appears to be erasing traces of the coveted white iPhone because it secretly plans to kill it--if you believe the conspiracy theorists who noted that images of the device went missing from the store late last night.

To explain the complexities of his plan, the House budget chairman and his filmmakers found inspiration in a BBC documentary by a Swedish global health professor. For real.

Two intriguing rumors have popped up at almost the same time: A number of photos of an assumed iPod Touch that has no physical home button, hinting at the iPhone 5, and a keypad-less HP device that could be the webOS clone of Apple's invention. Website PreCentral , which secured early images of the Verizon Pre 3, has published images of what seems to be a keyboard-less Pre smartphone, with a screen slightly larger than earlier Pre devices and what seems to be a front-facing camera set off-center at the top of the phone. According to earlier leaked data, the device could be codenamed the Stingray (the Pre 3 was codenamed Mantaray).

You know the UV-ink rubber stamps that night clubs like to stick on your skin? Well, a novel silver nanotech variant of the idea could actually help heal your skin wounds more quickly. Silverware became popular centuries ago partly because it was a precious metal and thus a status symbol, but also because the health qualities of silver have been known since Roman times

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1. As if to remind us that the world of TV is changing incredibly fast, Netflix has signed a deal with Lions Gate Entertainment to bring all the Mad Men archive shows to the digital online channel. The show is highly acclaimed and Netflix is reported to be paying around $1 million per episode--meaning it fully expects to recoup more than that from subscriptions and ads (curiously fitting given the show's setting!).

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