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17 New Ideas That Are Actually Worth Millions
They raised boatloads of money this year from ordinary people.
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How Facebook Is Hunting Down And Deleting Fake Accounts
Earlier this year, in its Q2 2012 earnings report, Facebook disclosed that 4.8 percent of its accounts were either duplicate or fake accounts
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The birth of emoticons, 125 years ago
The birth of emoticons, one of 100 diagrams that changed the world: Emoticons made a discreet entrance, arriving in print for the first time in this March 30, 1881 issue of Puck magazine.
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Uber Warns Customers New Year's Eve Pricing 'Is Not For The Faint Of Heart'
Uber, the startup with an app that lets you summon a town car limousine with your smartphone, has gotten a lot of grief in the past for something it does called "surge pricing."
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7 Bad Moves That Hurt Facebook in 2012
Facebook has made strides in 2012. But 2012 also marks aggressive moves to expand and monetize -- some might say at the expense of its users.
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Amazon Is Not A Commerce Company
Same-day shipping became the big retailer craze this holiday season. Why? As the New York Times points out, retailers are living in fear of Amazon.com and trying to match what the online retailer offers.
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13 Technologies You Won’t See in 2013
It seems like only yesterday we were planning for the Mayan apocalypse, but like so many other products, the 14th b'ak'tun (next era) has been delayed due to bugs and lack of pre-orders.
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Foursquare to display full user names, share more data with local businesses
Fond of your family name? Good -- it's about to get a bit more visible. Foursquare is planning to display full user names on profile pages, explaining in
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Facebook's Poke Is a Wild Success for Rival Snapchat
It took Facebook 12 days to copy Snapchat's self-deleting social-networking app, then took Snapchat days to become really, really popular.
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10 Web design trends you can expect to see in 2013
Well, it is that time of year where we start to reflect on the past year and look forward to the new year. In 2012 we have seen several new trends appear in web design...
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Here Are the 10 Most Pirated Movies of 2012
It's the end of the year and TorrentFreak has taken a look back at the year in movie piracy. The entire list isn't exactly surprising, but there are a few weird entries on there.
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Pinterest Sued by Man Claiming Investor Stole His Ideas
Pinterest and one of the company's investors, Brian Cohen, are now embroiled in a lawsuit with Theodore Schroeder, who alleges that Cohen took ideas from a company the two were previously involved in and used them to catapult Pinterest to the top of the social network pile.
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10 Marketing Trends for 2013 You Haven’t Heard
What would you find in a wordcloud of 2013 marketing/consumer trend lists? Big data. Cloud. Mobile. Trust. Direct delivery. Quantified self.
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2012’s Best Fashion Instagrams: Rihanna, Lady Gaga & More
Victoria’s Secret Angels, Miley Cyrus and more of the year’s top social media snapshots from the stylish.
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100 Ideas That Changed Graphic Design
From visual puns to the grid, or what Edward Tufte has to do with the invention of the fine print.
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Holiday Sales Disappoint, E-Commerce Roars Ahead
Nature, politics, make for disappointing bricks-and-mortar shopping season.
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12 Buzzwords You'll Hear in 2013
What buzzwords will have workers buzzing in 2013? Here's what small business owners, PR people and entrepreneurs had to say.
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Child porn investigation uncovers a web of evil
As soon as they saw the terrified boyâs photo three years ago, federal agents Peter Manning and Gregory Squire had the same thought: we have to save him. The child, about 18 months old, was naked from the waist down and clutching a stuffed rabbit. That image led to 33 arrests and the discovery of 138 children who were violated.
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Triumph of the nerds
IN 1989 Bill Watterson, the writer of “Calvin and Hobbes”, a brilliant comic strip about a six-year-old child and his stuffed tiger, denounced his industry.
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Fab Passes 10 Million Members, Sells 5.4 Products Every Minute
Fab has quickly emerged as a significant force in the e-commerce space. The design-focused shopping site now has more than 10 million members, up from 7.5 million in September.
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