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iPhone 4S Launch (and Several More Things)

Steve Jobs wasn't there to understate the moment with his trademark "one more thing." But Apple CEO Tim Cook and company held their own today rolling out several more things after unveiling the new iPhone.

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The Upside of the Tech Bubble

Not everyone lost out in the tech bubble. Here's how Kevin Ryan, a serial entrepreneur, actually cashed in on it. Kevin Ryan, the serial entrepreneur behind notable companies like Gilt Group and Business Insider, got involved in the Internet business in 1996 when he founded DoubleClick, a start-up that built ad management software for websites

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Cybermapping Africa’s Strangest Conflict

The Lord's Resistance Army has been waging a brutal war in Uganda for more than 20 years, with hardly a mention in the media. A new piece of software--based on Salesforce--is now tracking the atrocities.

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The iPhone’s Face Recognition Will Change Social Media, Gaming, Online Privacy, Your Life

First there were rumors based on some patent applications and thus it seemed Apple was going to use face recognition tech from its acquisition of Polar Rose in future iPhones. Then hackers digging through the code inside a beta test version of iOS5 found hooks that confirmed face recognition was going to be a big part of it

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7 Innovative Military Start-ups

The Inc. 500|5000 Conference plays host to vets and military spouses who are starting companies all over the country. As the wife of an active duty service man, South Carolina-native Stacy Swearengen knows the most challenging aspect of military spouse life: maintaining a career through multiple relocations.

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Welcome To Apple Day, Microsoft Buries Zune, New Hope For Californian Rare Earths?, HTC To Issue Security Patch

Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. Apple To Make News Today . The Internet is gearing up for today's 1 PM EST Cupertino show, where Apple CEO Tim Cook is expected to get on stage and trot out some new hardware--and maybe

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Check This Out: The New Coke 5!

From lightbulbs to iPhones, tech has a history of being produced with planned obsolescence. And our children will never know the alternative. On Christmas Eve, 1924, a group of industrialists held a secret meeting in Geneva, Switzerland

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Yahoo Launches Video Destination Site

More and more people are logging on to the Internet for the kind of relaxation and entertainment they used to look for on the boob tube. Yahoo Screen positions the company to capture some of those audiences

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Meet Anders Wahlquist From B-Reel, The Company That Helped Bring "The Wilderness Downtown" To Life

Though Swedish hybrid production company B-Reel has been around since 1999, merging film, interactive, games, and mobile to create new methods of storytelling, it exploded into the broader consciousness with 2010's " The Wilderness Downtown ." The interactive short film dreamed up by Chris Milk and the band Arcade Fire for its song "We Used To Wait" is a

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Start-up Wants to Save You From Data Disaster

Axcient, which hopes to simplify data recovery for small businesses, has closed a $15.5 million funding round. Axcient, which is attempting to simplify data backup and disaster recovery for small businesses, announced it has closed a $15.5 round of Series C funding. The five-year-old start-up's aim is to make life easier for small businesses by being one-stop shopping for storage, backup and disaster-recovery as opposed to your needing to cobble together a solution from multiple providers

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The Right Tax on the Wrong People

The American Jobs Act includes a clause that--if enacted on the venture capital industry--could hamper start-up investment, innovation, and, ultimately, job creation. Tucked away on Page 139 of Obama’s American Jobs Act, after the sections on payroll tax credits and unemployment benefits, are a few lines of text that could change the way venture capital investment works in this country.

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A Nutrition Label For Building Products

We know what ingredients are in many of the products we buy, but often have no idea what the buildings we spend our lives in are made of. The Building Product Transparency Project is trying to change that

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