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		<title>Struggling Six Apart Begged for $2M Loan (Bobbie Johnson/GigaOM)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2010 07:43:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bobbie Johnson / GigaOM:Struggling Six Apart Begged for $2M Loan&#160; &#8212;&#160; When blogging pioneer Six Apart announced in September that it was being purchased by ad network VideoEgg and being folded into a new company, Say Media, the deal confirmed what many had been saying for some time: the once-hot startup had been left &#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Boxee Box review (Nilay Patel/Engadget)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nilay Patel / Engadget:Boxee Box review&#160; &#8212;&#160; It&#8217;s a little strange that the Boxee Box by D-Link feels like a late entrant in this year&#8217;s crowded smart TV market &#8212; the core Boxee software has been around forever, and the Box itself was announced way back in January at CES.&#160; But a platform switch from NVIDIA&#8217;s Tegra 2 chip &#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Bartz: Google is great, Facebook is competition (Caroline McCarthy/The Social)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2010 07:43:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ashworth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Caroline McCarthy / The Social:Bartz: Google is great, Facebook is competition&#160; &#8212;&#160; SAN FRANCISCO&#8212;The first word that comes to Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz&#8217;s mind when she hears the word &#8220;Facebook&#8221; is &#8220;competition,&#8221; she revealed onstage at the Web 2.0 Summit this afternoon when conference host John Battelle engaged her in a lightning round of word associations.]]></description>
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		<title>The Beatles caved, who remains an iTunes holdout?      (AP)</title>
		<link>http://techcombo.com/2010/11/16/the-beatles-caved-who-remains-an-itunes-holdout-ap-123/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2010 07:41:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ashworth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[AP &#8211; With the Beatles finally on iTunes, Garth Brooks and AC/DC are among the few notable acts that continue to staunchly hold out, unwilling to agree to Apple s restrictive pricing schemes and loath to see their albums chopped into singles.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://buzz.yahoo.com/article/1:y_news:f604fc624a47b17c0ddb90e31b951e8d"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/cn/yahoo/ua/yx/zf/yo/4v/j7/ed/zz/pr/qn/jr/c5/yy/bwomamq/article_image.jpg" align="left" border="1" /></a>AP &#8211; With the Beatles finally on iTunes, Garth Brooks and AC/DC are among the few notable acts that continue to staunchly hold out, unwilling to agree to Apple s restrictive pricing schemes and loath to see their albums chopped into singles.</p>
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		<title>When Teachers Highlight Gender, Kids Pick Up Stereotypes      (LiveScience.com)</title>
		<link>http://techcombo.com/2010/11/16/when-teachers-highlight-gender-kids-pick-up-stereotypes-livescience-com-123/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2010 07:41:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ashworth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[LiveScience.com &#8211; When preschool teachers call attention to gender in any way, kids pick up on it. A new study found that in classrooms where boys and girls line up separately &#8211; and even in settings where teachers say things like, Good morning boys and girls &#8211; children express more stereotypes about gender and even discriminate when deciding who to play with.]]></description>
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teachers call attention to gender in any way, kids pick up on it. A new study<br />
found that in classrooms where boys and girls line up separately &#8211; and even in<br />
settings where teachers say things like, Good morning boys and<br />
girls &#8211; children express more stereotypes about gender and even<br />
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		<title>God comes to the smartphone: Bible app YouVersion grabs 10M users</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2010 07:41:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ashworth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It turns out that the world’s best-selling book, the Bible, has now produced one of the smartphone world’s most popular apps: YouVersion , which added its 10 millionth user Tuesday. Launched in April 2008 by Oklahoma megachurch LifeChurch.tv , the free YouVersion has experienced wildfire growth, becoming the leading free Bible app in iTunes from 2008-2010 and achieving a 5-star app by 50,000+ people. The company said its stats show that someone new is installing the app every 2.8 seconds, while 12 other people are opening the app during that same time period. YouVersion measures the n]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://buzz.yahoo.com/article/1:a8f0890373abe06194e21862d591297e:a8fc1306fd8174f589023cb96dc92b0c"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/cn/yahoo/27/xf/pw/34/4g/gs/im/fd/oo/wt/c4/gj/fq/ix5ukoa/article_image.jpg" align="left" border="1" /></a>It turns out that the world’s best-selling book, the Bible, has now produced one of the smartphone world’s most popular apps: YouVersion , which added its 10 millionth user Tuesday. </p>
<p> Launched in April 2008 by Oklahoma megachurch LifeChurch.tv , the free YouVersion has experienced wildfire growth, becoming the leading free Bible app in iTunes from 2008-2010 and achieving a 5-star app by 50,000+ people. </p>
<p> The company said its stats show that someone new is installing the app every 2.8 seconds, while 12 other people are opening the app during that same time period. </p>
<p> YouVersion measures the n</p>
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