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Dollar Rallies; Gold Falls on Fed Minutes
Wall Street Journal
The U.S. dollar rallied against its major rivals, spot gold traded at its lowest price in more than four months and European stocks nudged a touch lower on Friday, as investors digested the hawkish tone of the latest Federal Open Market Committee minutes.
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Dollar at 29-month high versus yen; may rise on US payrolls
Reuters
LONDON (Reuters) - The dollar extended gains to hit its highest level in nearly 2-1/2 year against the yen and rose versus the euro on Friday after U.S. Federal Reserve minutes indicated growing unease about the impact of further stimulus. The dollar ...
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Turkish Web Authenticators Briefly Fake Google Inc.
Business Insider
An agency of the Turkish government deployed a deceptive version of some Google Inc web pages, possibly to monitor activity by its employees, major Internet companies said on Thursday. The reports are the latest in a series of incidents in which ...
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Business Insider
Here's Your First Look At Samsung's Next Galaxy Phone
Business Insider
The photo below comes from SamMobile, which says it got the image from an insider at Samsung. The rendering shows a phone that looks very similar to the current Samsung Galaxy S III but with a larger screen. It also looks like Samsung removed the home ...
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Google Quietly Removes Censorship Warning Feature For Search Users In China
TechCrunch
Google has quietly disabled a feature that notified users of its search service in China when a keyword had been censored by the Chinese government's internet controls, according to censorship monitoring blog GreatFire.org. The blog reports that the ...
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David Cameron: Tax avoiding foreign firms like Starbucks and Amazon lack ...
Telegraph.co.uk
Mr Cameron was speaking weeks after MPs on the Public Accounts Committee accused Starbucks, Google and Amazon in a high profile report of "immorally" minimising their UK tax bills. Last year Treasury minister David Gauke caused a row when he told ...
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Telegraph.co.uk
2013: The year of the Internet of Things
MIT Technology Review
Back in 1999, a technologist called Kevin Ashton pointed out that almost all the information available on the internet–a mere 50 petabytes at that time–had been captured or created by humans in the form of text, photos, videos etc. ... tracking objects ...
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Down And Out: Spotify Stops Its Music Download Service In Europe, But How ...
TechCrunch
But the company had also hedged its bets by also offering downloaded music, competing against the likes of Apple's iTunes and Amazon in the process. All that now is changing: the company has halted music downloads to all customers, unless they have ...
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TechCrunch
Android or Chrome? Will Google ever decide on one OS?
CNET
The idea is that the search and advertising giant wants to make it easier for people to connect to the Internet and eventually use Google services. Since it was introduced in 2007, the company's Android mobile operating system has become a huge hit. It ...
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Gold Is Getting Crushed Again Today
Business Insider
Earlier this morning, gold hit a low of $1626 per ounce, but has bounced back to gain about ten bucks. In their ... The last two days of trading have also put gold below its 200-day moving average, another critical level for followers of technical ...
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Samsung, LG charged with LCD panel price fixing in China
Apple Insider
Though the company is a fierce rival, Samsung remains a key supplier to Apple, and was initially the only manufacturer of Retina displays for the third-generation iPad. LG, another major Apple panel supplier, said its illegal activities occurred ..
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French ISP Free quietly blocks Internet ads for its FreeBox ADSL customers
The Next Web
Advertising is largely an accepted part of the Internet and, though often unwelcome, most Web surfers understand that content producers and writers need to find a way to make money online, especially when core services are free. If you've ever wondered ...
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The Next Web
Happy birthday internet! Here are 15 reasons why I love you
The Guardian
The internet turned 30 this week. As an avid user of the internet, and someone who also recently entered her third decade, I wanted to commemorate the anniversary. In many ways, ours is a symbiotic relationship: without me (and millions of people like ...
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The Guardian
Turn a SNES Gamepad into a USB Game Controller You Can Use with Your PC ...
Lifehacker
Turn a SNES Gamepad into a USB Game Controller You Can Use with Your PC, The SNES (or Super Famicom, depending on where you're from) controller is probably my favorite console controller. Unfortunately, the proprietary connector makes it difficult to ...
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US ends long Google probe with only mild reprimand
Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a major victory for Google Inc, U.S regulators on Thursday ended their investigation into the giant Internet company and concluded that it had not manipulated its Web search results to hurt rivals. The Federal Trade ...
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Meet Google's Original Creepy Android Mascots
Business Insider
Before the iconic Bugdroid Android mascot, Google used a few temporary placeholder characters when it was showing off early builds of its upcoming mobile operating system in 2007. The images below come from Dan Morrill, one of the lead Android ...
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SymbolSmash is a sweet iPad arcade game to teach kids all about classical music
The Next Web
Set to Jacques Offenbach's Voyage to the Moon, SymbolSmash's first module takes each kid through a series of musical games, introducing them to the instruments and symbols through a piece of music. The interactive play section lets kids discover the ...
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The Next Web
European Stocks Fall as Fed Considers Cutting Stimulus
Bloomberg
Randgold Resources Ltd. led gold producers lower, falling 3.3 percent as the price of the metal declined. Sonova Holding AG (SOON), the Swiss maker of hearing health-care products, rose after Bank of America Corp. upgraded its rating on the stock.
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Google Isn't A Monopoly If Consumers Choose Speed Over Options
TechCrunch
While the Federal Trade Commission absolved Google of monopoly accusations earlier today for prioritizing its own products in search results, it's questionable whether the search giant can ever be considered a monopoly, if consumers continue to rely on ...
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Which Diet Plans Are Most Popular? Dieters Choose
WebMD
The readers ranked do-it-yourself plans and commercial plans. MyFitnessPal, a free web site and smartphone app, got top satisfaction marks in the survey. Weight Watchers got the highest satisfaction marks of the four commercial diet plans rated by dieters.
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The FTC Gives Google a Free Pass
Businessweek
"We're pleased that the FTC and the other authorities that have looked at Google's business practices … have concluded that we should be free to combine direct answers with Web results." Meanwhile, competitors who expended a good deal of their own ...
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Game Review: 'XCOM: Enemy Unknown'
DefenseNews.com
The game has several layers. At the top is the strategic layer, which requires the player to build up a base with laboratories, workshops, hangars and barracks, plus containment facilities for captured aliens. But everything costs money to build and ...
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Illegal file-sharer gets hit with 5-year prison sentence
CNET
Perkins -- a.k.a. Butch Perkins, Stash, and theestas -- is said to have been the head of a group that went to theaters, camcorded the movies, recorded the audio, synched the files, and then distributed the product on the Internet. The group, known as ...
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Internet as Gassy as Aviation but Improving Other Techs' Emissions
Discovery News
Information communications and technologies (ICT), such as the internet, account for approximately as much carbon dioxide emissions as the aviation industry, or roughly two percent of the global total, according to research by the consulting group ...
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Google Free to Extend Web Search Lead as U.S. FTC Ends Probe
Bloomberg
Google Inc. (GOOG) is free to extend its dominance of the $50 billion Internet-search market after U.S. regulators ended an investigation into whether the company unfairly skewed search results to disadvantage competitors. The Federal Trade Commission, ...
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