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A GameStop employee posts a photo of himself planking, and gets himself and the co-worker who took the picture, fired. GameStop's business is entertainment, but the company made it clear that those on the clock shouldn't be partaking in the fun and games. The Grapevine, Texas-based company fired an employee who went planking on the job, as well as the fellow employee who snapped the photo of him doing so between two in-store kiosks.

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It sounds like the beginning of a bad joke, but its not.

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The latest batch of leaked State Department cables from WikiLeaks reveals the U.S. government's deep interest in how tech giants like Apple and Oracle perform overseas.

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The QR code is an acquired taste. But just as the tech is primed to be overtaken, America is going nuts for all things QR.

CNN paid $20 million for personalized iPad magazine Zite this week.

NEW YORK--Just as a true outbreak might, the new viral thriller Contagion, opening this weekend, begins unremarkably enough. [More]

The end of the solar company--with $1 billion in investments and hundreds of millions in government loans--is bad for the U.S. economy.

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