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Mayfield Fund's managing director Tim Chang is obsessed with the whole quantified self movement, where people use gadgets to keep track of their health and fitness.

"Middling" takes place when a book loses to both sides of the betting market, as was the case classically so for Super Bowl XIII featuring the Dallas Cowboys and Pittsburgh Steelers.

Facebook just filed for its initial public offering, finally giving us a look at how the company actually operates as a business.

Employment climbed more than forecast in January and the U.S. jobless rate unexpectedly fell to the lowest in three years, casting doubt on whether the Federal Reserve can wait until 2014 before raising interest rates.

Phil Falcone's Harbinger Capital Partners LLC lost 47 percent for investors in his main hedge fund last year as he was forced to slash the value of his troubled wireless venture by more than half, according to a person familiar with the results.

MOUNT DORA, Fla. --- First Green Bank, which recently opened its award-winning headquarters facility in Mount Dora, will open a 5,000 square foot branch facility on Monday Feb. 6 at 175 W. Granada Blvd. in Ormond Beach.

Kenneth LaRoe, chairman and chief executive officer of First Green Bank, said he appointed Jim Hester as market executive to head the branch facility.

Hester, a Volusia County native, earned his Business degree from the University of Central Florida and has more than 15 years of experience in community banking in Volusia County.

First Green Bank was named the region’s Green Business of the Year in 2011 by the Central Florida Chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC).

First Green Bank’s new headquarters facility in Mount Dora is the second privately constructed building in Florida to meet the USGBC’s LEED Platinum standards for energy efficiency and environmental quality.

SOUTH DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. --- The Beville Road Business Park in South Daytona, developed and owned by Winston-James Development Co., recently leased 1,050 square feet of office space to Apex Laboratories.

Winston Schwartz, president of Winston-James Development, said the new tenant is a clinical lab doing medical testing for clients in East Volusia County.

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A group of European regulators has written to Google Inc. calling on it to halt the introduction of its new privacy policy, saying it needs to investigate whether the proposals sufficiently protect users' personal data.

LAKE FOREST, Fla. – Tolaris Homes which builds luxury homes throughout Central Florida, will start construction of a 5,000 square foot luxury home at Cedar Cove in Longwood within the next 30 days.

Rick Bavec, president of Tolaris Homes, said the pre-sold luxury home at Cedar Cove will feature five bedrooms, four baths and a three-car garage.

On Wednesday, Feb 1, 2012, we published an article discussing some changes StumbleUpon made during their recent redesign which removed source links from their content pages and forced all users to view content from the site through an iframed toolbar, which they could not close if they were logged in.

Malev Zrt., the state-owned Hungarian airline founded in 1946, ceased flying after the government withdrew financing, becoming the second victim of European austerity measures in a week after the collapse of Spanair SA.

Glencore International Plc's approach for Xstrata Plc is unlikely to prompt Mick Davis, the 53-year-old South African who runs the company, to surrender the helm of the miner he built through a decade of dealmaking.

Priceline just killed William Shatner. Literally. In the latest "Priceline Negotiator" ad , Shatner plunges off a bridge on a bus that bursts into a fireball when it hits the canyon floor.

United States Senator Charles E. Schumer was given a warm welcome when he visited the Village of Floral Park Fire Department Headquarters on Monday, Jan.

In order to comply with soon-to-be imposed federal mandates, Schumer is calling on the Federal Emergency Management Agency to approve a funding application on behalf of more than 70 Nassau County volunteer fire departments and seven volunteer ambulance corps to purchase the radio equipment that meets the Federal Communications Commission frequency ... (more)

Joel Gurin, chief of the consumer and governmental affairs bureau, is exiting the Federal Communications Commission on Feb.

Globally, consumers threw away 41.5 million tons of electronics in 2011. Unless something changes, by 2016 we'll be tossing out 93.5 million tons.

MasterCard Inc., the world's second- biggest payments network, said fourth-quarter profit climbed 24 percent as spending with credit and debit cards increased.

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