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Google ‘99.9 Percent’ Sure to Shut Down in China

March 13 (Bloomberg) -- Google Inc. has drawn up detailed plans to shut its search engine in China and is “99.9 percent” certain of going ahead with the closure, the Financial Times reported today, citing a person it didn’t name. [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Apple Sells 51,000 iPads in First Two Hours? [REPORT]

The iPad officially became available for pre-order earlier today and while plenty of you are still debating about whether or not to pre-order, it appears as if the device might already sold 51,000 units in just two hours via pre-order. Wow. [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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A Futures Site Coming to Bet on Movie Ticket Sales

In the real market, contracts on the Cantor exchange will trade at $1 for every $1 million a movie is expected to bring in — a figure determined by traders — at the domestic box office during its first few weeks in theaters. So if “Robin Hood” [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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The Dell Streak - Dells iPad (but smaller)

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5-inch WVGA (800 x 480) touchscreen, 5 megapixel camera with autofocus and flash, capacitive touch front buttons, front-facing VGA camera (for video chatting) and the 30-pin docking connector, we weren't aware of Dell's plans to reveal a slew of vivac [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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World's first commercially available Jetpack goes on sale

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The new Martin Jetpack is priced at $86,000 (£57,675) and is the world's first commercially available personal flying machine. [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Lessons this guy learned after spending his family's life savings

I wrote this three years ago after burning through my family’s life savings in a failed startup, but never posted or published it – as frankly it hurt too much. After all, no one ever dreams at the end of the ride, they’ll be wondering wheth [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Chrysler forces high school to drop logo

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While a lot of Lake Mary students, parents and sympathizers have been chattering about how Chrysler could have simply let the school use the logo and accepted it as good publicity, Chrysler officials said that was not a possibility. There’s no telli [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Neato introduces the $399 Roomba Killer - how will it do?

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The Roomba is the reigning champ of the vacuum robot industry. iRobot has sold more than 5 million units in the last seven years and they show no sign of stopping. For those who have never watched one in action, the Roomba doesn’t see where it’s g [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Heinz revamps ketchup packet for dippers and squeezers

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For decades there was only one way to use the humble ketchup packet, and it was messy. Now, fast-food lovers have a choice: the traditional squeeze play — or the option to dunk. You want fries with that, in the minivan? No problem.s [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Sun’s Chief Executive Tweets His Resignation in Haiku

Jonathan Schwartz, the last chief executive of Sun Microsystems, has become the first Fortune 200 boss to tweet his resignation. Late Wednesday night, Mr. Schwartz used Twitter to publish a haiku about his exit from Oracle, which just completed its [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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How Boards of Directors Are Killing U.S. Companies

The failure of the financial system in 2008 wasn't simply a massive failure of common sense, regulation, and leadership. It was also a failure of corporate governance. In theory, the corporate boards at Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns, AIG, and General  [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Tesla Is Going Public

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Tesla has lost “approximately $236.4 million from our inception through Sept. 30, 2009? and said profitability depends upon successfully producing “automobiles such as the Model S” and growing public interest in electric vehicles. Most of the [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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