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1 hr ago | Detroit News

Netflix looks to hook subscribers with new 'Arrested Development'

Netflix is hoping this weekend's release of the resurrected TV series ' Arrested Development ' will draw more subscribers to its Internet video service.

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Related Topix: Netflix, Emmy Awards, Entertainment, Television, Hip-Hop, Arrested Development, Comedy, Audio and Video

4 hrs ago | PC World

Google plans to beef up its SSL encryption keys

SSL certificates are used to encrypt communication and verify the integrity of another party with which a user is interacting.

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Related Topix: Google

8 hrs ago | The Hartford Courant

Salesforce.com's quarterly results disappoint Wall Street

Salesforce.com Inc's quarterly earnings and outlook disappointed investors as costs rise following a spree of acquisitions, sending its shares lower.

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Related Topix: Salesforce.com, Salesforce, Application Service Providers, Cloud Computing, Science / Technology, Ansonia, CT

12 hrs ago | Digital Video Editing

ITC says Microsoft did not violate Google patent

Microsoft Corp won a round in a complex patent war on Thursday when the International Trade Commission said the company's popular Xbox entertainment system did not violate a patent owned by Google subsidiary Motorola Mobility.

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Related Topix: Microsoft, Google, Microsoft Xbox, Video Games, 4Home

Thu May 23, 2013

ComputerWorld

Intel claims Haswell will offer 50 per cent more battery life in laptops

Intel's upcoming family of Core processors, code-named Haswell, will offer 50 per cent more battery life in laptops than did their Ivy Bridge predecessors, according to the company.

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Related Topix: Intel, McAfee, CPU, Science / Technology, World News, Taiwan

Seattle Times

Lawyer: NY man at center of HIV scare not positive

Nushawn Williams, a New York drug dealer imprisoned amid accusations he infected 13 young women with HIV in the 1990s, does not have the virus that causes AIDS, according to his attorney, who said he arranged for a new blood test as part of efforts to get him released from prison.

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Related Topix: Publishing, Media, IGN Entertainment, News Corporation, Century Media Records, Television, Ottaway Newspapers, FOX News Network, Music

EDGE

Rue21 Agrees to Go Private in Nearly $1B Deal

Clothing and accessories company Rue21 has agreed to be taken private in nearly $1 billion deal with private equity firm Apax Partners.

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Related Topix: Apax Partners, Warrendale, PA

Northern Michigan News

Google to add Galapagos Islands to Street View

Few have explored the remote volcanic islands of the Galapagos archipelago, an otherworldly landscape inhabited by the world's largest tortoises and other fantastical creatures that inspired Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.

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Related Topix: Google, Emerging Technology, Search Engines, World News, Ecuador, Mountain View, CA

KCRA-TV Sacramento

Chrysler jabs Tesla over loan repayment

Chrysler Group and Tesla Motors, run by two of the most outspoken CEOs in the auto industry, are trading zingers over the help each company received from the federal government.

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Related Topix: Chrysler Group, Tesla Motors, Department of Energy, Economics News, Bankruptcy

WISN-TV

Spectacular tech 'firsts' up for auction

In this era of ever-accelerating technological development, we all tend to be so fixated on the gizmos of the future that we rarely take the time to think about the glorious technology of the past.

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Related Topix: CPU, Science / Technology, Apple, Computers, World News, Germany, Inventions, Jobs

WANE-TV Fort Wayne

Aussie minister sorry hea

An Australian politician says he has learned a valuable lesson in social networking after he "liked" a Facebook photo without realizing that it showed a teenage prankster exposing himself.

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Related Topix: Social Software, Facebook, Offbeat

Wed May 22, 2013

Asbury Park Press

Review: Google music plan solid, serendipitous

Google Inc.'s new music service offers a lot of eye candy to go with the tunes. The song selection of around 18 million tracks is comparable to popular services such as Spotify and Rhapsody , and a myriad of playlists curated along different genres provides a big playground for music lovers.

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Related Topix: iPod touch App, iPad App, Google+, iPhone and iPad App, iPhone App, Google, Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Spotify, Cell Phones, Electronics

Seattle Times

Tesla uses stock, note sale to repay government

Tesla Motors, which makes a highly acclaimed $70,000 electric car, has paid off a startup loan from the U.S. government nine years early.

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Related Topix: Tesla Motors, Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Energy

Seattle Times

Twitter adds security measure to logins

Twitter said in a blog post Wednesday that users will be able to enroll in a login verification program.

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Related Topix: Twitter, Microsoft

KSLA-TV Shreveport

Pets, photos are precious finds in tornado recovery

The Oklahoma tornadoes displaced families and destroyed homes, but another facet of the tragedy saw hundreds of people separated from pets and searching in vain for family photos.

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Related Topix: Moore, OK, Shawnee, OK, Weather, Facebook, Social Software, University of Oklahoma

Myrtle Beach Online

On top of big salaries, companies pile on perks

Chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices bought the house CEO Rory Read struggled to sell for $790,000 - and gave him another $180,000 to cover his underwater mortgage.

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Related Topix: Destination Hotels and Resorts, Gaming, Hotels, Wynn Resorts, IBM, Advanced Micro Devices, Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance

MarketWatch

TaxWatch: Why IRS scandal is good for tax cheats

As lawmakers and government officials probe the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative groups, tax cheats may be smiling.

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Related Topix: Tax, MarketWatch

WTHR-TV Indianapolis

Los Angeles picking mayor after low-drama campaign

Rescue crews are working through the night after a monstrous tornado barreled through the Oklahoma City suburbs, demolishing an elementary school and reducing homes to piles of splintered wood.

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Related Topix: Los Angeles, CA, Tax, US News, Tea Party, Facebook, Train Disaster

Bradenton.com

Restaurant learns online reviews can make or break

An Arizona restaurateur, fed up after years of negative online reviews and an embarrassing appearance on a reality television show, posted a social media rant laced with salty language and angry, uppercase letters that quickly went viral last week, to the delight of people who love a good Internet meltdown.

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Related Topix: Public Relations, Restaurant Management, Facebook, Reality TV, Kitchen Nightmares, Entertainment, Television, Gordon Ramsay, Life, Food, Chefs

Tue May 21, 2013

Seattle Times

Business Highlights

Jamie Dimon, the CEO and chairman of JPMorgan Chase, easily survived a vote Tuesday that would have called on him to give up his role as chairman of the nation's largest bank.

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Related Topix: The, Video Games, Deep Silver, X360, Microsoft Xbox, Microsoft, Francois Hollande

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