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VirtuOz - fully automatic customer service chat bots

VirtuOz, a company that develops virtual support agents, has closed a $11.4 million Series B funding round led by Mohr Davidow Ventures, with Galileo Partners and Eric Hahn with Inventures Group also participating. The company’s “Virtual Agents” are basically intelligent chat bots that can walk users though sales, help, and support questions automatically. Virtual Agents generally appear as chat avatars (you can see one below), and are apparently so realistic that the company says that 69% of customers end their conversation with a “Goodbye”.
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CNN story helps surgeon perform 'lifesaving' op

LONDON, England (CNN) -- A brain surgeon performed what he called a "life-saving" surgery on a teenager by removing a large brain tumor using a method he read about on CNN.com just three days earlier.
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Superbowl bans PETA ad featuring women making love to vegetables

(Jan. 28) - NBC has deemed a PETA commercial featuring lingerie-clad models demonstrating their fondness for veggies too sexy for the Super Bowl, the animal rights group said. The spot, titled 'Veggie Love,' shows the beauties relishing their passion for produce in a series of steamy scenes. One suggestively rubs asparagus down her bare torso, another lovingly caresses a spear of broccoli, while a third enjoys a vegetable bubble bath.
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Ashlee Simpson mad about media's coverage of fat sister, are you?

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Ashlee Simpson-Wentz has a bone to pick with those who say her sister is looking a bit meatier than usual.
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Women 'feel most beautiful aged 32'

Almost 40 per cent women reportedly said they were at their most attractive at the age. Among celebrities turning 32 this year are Sarah Michelle Gellar, Sophie Dahl and Liv Tyler. Many reportedly explained that at 32 their life had the mix of confidence gained from life experience, an active love life and the pleasure of eating and drinking sensibly.
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Obama: Snowy Washington Needs 'Chicago Toughness'

Do schools in the Washington area shut down at the drop of a snowflake or glint of an icicle? That is the view of President Obama, who poked fun this morning at his daughters' school -- Sidwell Friends -- and others in the region for declaring a snow day. "Because of what?" he asked. "Some ice?"
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Postmaster General says delivery may have to be cut to 5 days

WASHINGTON (AP) — Massive deficits could force the post office to cut out one day of mail delivery, the postmaster general told Congress on Wednesday, in asking lawmakers to lift the requirement that the agency deliver mail six days a week.
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Pope decision angers many, does it anger you?

Pope Benedict's decision to lift the excommunication of four ultra-traditionalist bishops, including one who has denied the Holocaust, has angered many Jews and Catholics who say the bishops represent repressive and anti-Semitic currents in Catholicism that they want the pope to now explicitly repudiate.
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$8,000 Treasure Found in Goodwill Bin

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Jan. 26) - A 100-year-old Ellsworth Woodward painting found in Goodwill's Nashville warehouse has sold for more than $8,000. Goodwill of Middle Tennessee spokeswoman Suzanne Kay-Pittman says a Boston bidder bought the painting for $8,101 late Sunday on Goodwill's online auction Web site.
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Starbucks to stop continually brewing decaf coffee after noon

Starbucks Corp. said Tuesday that it would stop brewing decaffeinated coffee after noon as part of a drive to save $400 million by September. The company, which last year started brewing fresh pots of coffee every 30 minutes, will have the caffeine-free version available upon request after noon, the Seattle company said. It takes about four minutes for a fresh cup to brew, spokeswoman Bridget Baker said.
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