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Environmental WikiLeaks: Greenpeace Crowdsources Research Of Secret BP Documents

Greenpeace is on a mission to expose major corporations and government agencies involved in shady activities--and it wants your help. Greenpeace is on a mission to expose major corporations and government agencies involved in shady activities--by posting thousands of Freedom of Information Act documents on highly publicized websites. If Greenpeace's tactics work, the organization could change the way companies do business, or at least force them to better hide incriminating documents.

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Walmart Could Easily Pay Its Workers $12 An Hour

Ethonomic Indicator of the Day: $12 - The minimum wage Walmart could pay its workers without affecting prices. Walmart is plowing through its global responsibility goals , cutting down on plastic waste, improving energy efficiency in factories, and reshaping the crop diversity of entire U.S. regions.

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iFive: Obama’s "Fun" Science, Facebook Lost iPhone Deal, Iran’s Space Monkey, Foursquare-Apple Rumors, Nokia-Microsoft Deal

1. Barack Obama once promised to have a science-friendly presidency, And at his ground-breaking town hall on Facebook , he promised more science . Specifically he wants to "start making science cool" and hopes the American people will think of the next "big energy breakthrough" the same way they felt about the moonwalks forty years ago

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Apple Can’t Keep Up With iPad Demand

Apple sold almost 5 million iPads around the world last quarter. But it still couldn't make them fast enough to meet demand. Apple sold almost 5 million iPads during its March quarter—and it still couldn’t keep up with the demand, company executives said during a quarterly earnings call on Wednesday

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Keep An Eye On EBay

EBay has gone shopping again. This time it's buying a little company called Where. Where is a location-based software company that develops apps for all the major platforms

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How to Keep Up With a Fast-Growing Company

Congratulations. If you've clicked this link, you're probably running a fast-growing company—a fortuitous position for any business owner. However, if your company grows too fast and without the correct infrastructure to let it grow, it can quickly spiral out of control

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One Year After The BP Oil Disaster, What Has Changed?

It has been a year since BP helped make the ultimate oil company screw-up: blowing up an offshore oil rig, killing 11 workers, and then unloading 170 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico.

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Houston Grandma Is Nation’s First "Super Wi-Fi" Adopter

Granny leaves the rest of us behind, with her new long-distance, brick-wall-smashing Wi-Fi. A Houston grandma, Leticia Aguirre, is believed to be the first residential user of so-called "Super Wi-Fi." That's according to Rice University , which had a hand in all this (and knows a good headline when it sees one).

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First Came iPhone’s Thunder, Now GPS Makers Ride The Lightning

With the rise of GPS-enabled touchscreen phones like the iPhone, you'd think that the future for stand-alone GPS makers looks bleak. Except that these companies are being surprisingly agile, and are embracing smartphones to make the best GPS navigators ever.

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