Maps are everything in a new mobile landscape. The company that controls them controls what can be done with location. When Apple announced it had developed its own homegrown maps system at its World Wide Developer Conference today, it wasn't just introducing another new feature for the iPhone.
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Offline learning is the latest tool for the unorthodox education organization. Here's how that and other new features will power Khan Academy's new app. Khan Academy , the wildly popular YouTube lecture series, is slated to launch its iPad app any minute now in Apple's store
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The company is now the biggest name in microlending. Watch its meteoric rise, from sending just a few loans to one African entrepreneur to moving hundreds of millions of dollars of capital around the world
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Forty-eight hours into an attempt to muscle a gusher of oil back into the deep-sea well from which it spewed, the flow of petroleum and gas refused to slow. Screen after screen in a special room at BP's headquarters in Houston showed the oil gushing undiminished, silently witnessed underwater by remotely operated vehicles (ROVs)
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