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Facebook IPO could value it among top companies (AP)

Facebook IPO could value it among top companies 
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AP - When Facebook makes its long-expected debut as a public company this spring, the social-networking company will likely vault into the ranks of the largest public companies in the world, alongside McDonald's, Amazon.com and Bank of America.

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Facebook IPO could value it among top companies (AP)

Facebook IPO could value it among top companies 
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AP - When Facebook makes its long-expected debut as a public company this spring, the social-networking company will likely vault into the ranks of the largest public companies in the world, alongside McDonald's, Amazon.com and Bank of America.

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Twitter’s new censorship plan rouses global furor (AP)

Twitter’s new censorship plan rouses global furor 
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AP - Twitter, a tool of choice for dissidents and activists around the world, found itself the target of global outrage Friday after unveiling plans to allow country-specific censorship of tweets that might break local laws.

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Twitter’s new censorship plan rouses global furor (AP)

Twitter’s new censorship plan rouses global furor 
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AP - Twitter, a tool of choice for dissidents and activists around the world, found itself the target of global outrage Friday after unveiling plans to allow country-specific censorship of tweets that might break local laws.

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Jobless man builds a house out of $1.82 billion worth of shredded money (Yahoo! News)

Yahoo! News - What would you do with $1.82 billion worth of shredded money? In Ireland, people build houses out of it — at least that's what Dublin-based artist Frank Buckley did. The unemployed artist originally wanted to create a gallery for his series of …

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Jobless man builds a house out of $1.82 billion worth of shredded money (Yahoo! News)

Yahoo! News - What would you do with $1.82 billion worth of shredded money? In Ireland, people build houses out of it — at least that's what Dublin-based artist Frank Buckley did. The unemployed artist originally wanted to create a gallery for his series of …

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Apple CEO responds to allegations of Chinese worker abuse (Yahoo! News)

Yahoo! News - Is Apple finally getting tough on their abusive Chinese suppliers? Maybe. Intent on stemming the increasing complaints from the public and investors alike, Apple CEO Tim Cook fired off an email yesterday to combat claims from "people questioning Apple's values," detailing what …

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Apple CEO responds to allegations of Chinese worker abuse (Yahoo! News)

Yahoo! News - Is Apple finally getting tough on their abusive Chinese suppliers? Maybe. Intent on stemming the increasing complaints from the public and investors alike, Apple CEO Tim Cook fired off an email yesterday to combat claims from "people questioning Apple's values," detailing what …

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Twitter may censor tweets in individual countries (AP)

Twitter may censor tweets in individual countries 
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AP - Twitter has refined its technology so it can censor messages on a country-by-country basis.

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Samsung 4Q profit rises 17 pct on smartphone sales (AP)

Samsung 4Q profit rises 17 pct on smartphone sales 
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AP - Samsung Electronics Co. reported a 17 percent jump in fourth quarter profit on the strength of smartphone sales even as the company battled claims it had copied Apple's iPhone.

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Facebook, Washington state target online spam (AP)

AP - Facebook is partnering with Washington state to combat a type of spam called "clickjacking" that is plaguing the social networking site, company and state officials announced Thursday.

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Newt Gingrich promises to build a moon colony by 2020; make it a U.S. state (Yahoo! News)

Yahoo! News - The race for the Republican presidential nomination is about to blast off into outer space: Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich announced that, if elected, he'd establish a colony on the moon by 2020. In a speech to supporters on the Florida space …

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House lawmakers seek Google answers on privacy policy (Reuters)

Reuters - Lawmakers on the House Energy and Commerce Committee asked Google Inc on Thursday to provide answers about recent changes to the search engine's privacy policy.

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Cold Plasma Layer Detected High Above Earth (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - Cold, electrically charged particles have long been suspected to exist tens of thousands of miles above the Earth's surface, and now scientists have detected such ions there for the first time. And they are significantly more abundant at those heights than previously...

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AP Interview: Wikipedia founder hails role in US (AP)

AP Interview: Wikipedia founder hails role in US 
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AP - The founder of Wikipedia hailed the online encyclopedia's role in helping halt U.S. legislation aimed at cracking down on Internet piracy, saying the proposed bills needed to be stopped because they were flawed.

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Report: Android accounts for 39 pct of tablet market (Digital Trends)

Digital Trends - Market analysis firm Strategy Analytics has released its analysis of the worldwide tablet market during the fourth quarter of 2011, and finds that while the Apple iPad continues to dominate with a 58 percent share, Android tablets are catching up, accounting...

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