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Coca-Cola made headlines in 2009 when it introduced the PlantBottle, a beverage bottle made from petroleum-based materials and 30% plant-based materials. The company's ultimate goal has been to make a 100% plant-based bottle--but now PepsiCo has beaten it to the punch.

Buy others' unused, unwanted Groupons with a new iPhone app.

What do cloud computing, Bill Gates, and Schrodinger have in common? They are all contributing to the success of Nimbus , a biopharmaceutical company that leverages cloud computing (courtesy of Schrodinger, a computational drug-design company) to quickly discover medicines for difficult-to-tackle disease targets. This month, Nimbus scored an undisclosed amount of funding from Bill Gates and Dr.

The iPad 2 is getting all sorts of praise, but something interesting is emerging: Are its light weight, large screen and twin cameras perfectly positioned to make the iPad an Augmented Reality giant? Augmented Reality apps have slowly proliferated on smartphones, bringing a novelty and genuine usefulness to some data streams that are overlaid on reality through the device's rear cameras, but now there are tablet computers with rear cameras, too.

The 8.9-magnitude earthquake in Japan shortened Earth's day by 1.8 millionths of a second. While this might sound striking, perhaps even scary, don't panic: Earth is shifting slightly all the time, owing mostly to atmospheric and ocean currents. The 8.9-magnitude earthquake in Japan on March 11 shortened Earth's day by 1.8 millionths of a second, according to NASA scientists

Small announcements by online video players Rovi and Vimeo are harbingers of seismic shifts in the way we find TV shows we like. Here's a peek at the new plumbing pumping life into web TV recommendations

Could the expansion of Foursquare's API allow it to become a universal look-up list for venue and location data for all location based services online?

Food safety goes nano, with a new research grant for a U.K. scientist. Future kitchen surfaces could have his spray-on antimicrobial coating

In this excerpt from their new book Come Together: The Business Wisdom of the Beatles, authors Richard Courtney and George Cassidy discuss how Paul did what every good leader tries do with a failing enterprise, change the strategy to save the business. When the company begins a downward spiral, someone must take control. That person must have the best interests of the company as top priority, and the welfare of the members as a secondary focus

Erica Douglass was too young to feel so old. Tired and sick every time she ate, her doctors told her to slow down and spend less time at her six-year-old Silicon Valley-based web hosting company

Congress is mid-hearing about all sorts of piracy at the moment, but one interesting trend has emerged: The notion that Congress could force Google to de-list pirate sites from search results? And does this constitute censorship?

If SXSW serves as a barometer of all trends hot in tech, then group messaging and texting apps are one of the hottest trends--even by Austin, Texas, standards. These days, I can't open my email without seeing yet another pitch plaguing my inbox touting some slight variation on the group messaging formula.

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What better way to remember Brutus backstabbing Caesar than by watching movies like The Informant! and The Social Network? Here are four more corporate-betrayal films primed for the Hollywood treatment. #ides_of_march_wrapper { width:605px; height:940px; margin:0 auto; text-align:center; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; padding-top:30px; } #ides_of_march_wrapper p{ font-size:11.5px !important; height:180px; line-height:14px !important; } #ides_of_march_wrapper h2{ font-size:13px !important; clear:both; } #ides_of_march_wrapper em{ font-family:"Times New Roman",Georgia,Serif; } #ides_of_march_wrapper #left_column{ width:200px; float:left; border-right:dotted 2px rgb(147,149,152); margin-right:20px; padding-right:20px; } #ides_of_march_wrapper #right_column{ width:220px; float:left; text-align:center; } .blueTitleText{ color:rgb(0,173,220); font-size:14px; font-weight:bold; } .grayTitleText{ color:rgb(147,149,152); font-size:14px; } PUMA vs

Twitter and other social networks have, of course, been remarkable tools during past uprisings and disasters.