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Need Pre-Facebook Movie Drama?  Go Read “Googled” This Week (Danny Sullivan/Search Engine Land)

September 25, 2010
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Need Pre-Facebook Movie Drama?  Go Read “Googled” This Week (Danny Sullivan/Search Engine Land)

Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:Need Pre-Facebook Movie Drama?  Go Read “Googled” This Week  —  With the Facebook movie’s debut a week away, how about something to keep you entertained while you wait?  A book.  About that other major internet drama story, Google.  The book?  “Googled, The End Of The World As We Know...

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Recently Discovered Phenomenon Could Reveal How Stars Are Born

September 23, 2010
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Recently Discovered Phenomenon Could Reveal How Stars Are Born

Light from the clouds where stars and planets are born could soon reveal secrets about these mysterious formative regions, a new study suggests.

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Online Banking Startup Think Finance Secures $90 Million Line of Credit

September 23, 2010
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Online Banking Startup Think Finance Secures $90 Million Line of Credit

Think Finance is a Sequoia-backed startup that provides banking services to the underbanked and unbanked. The company has been around since 2001 and has been profitable since 2003, but they’ve operated very much under the radar by design until now. Today, Think Finance is announcing that they’ve secured a $90 million credit facility from...

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‘Super’ Harvest Moon Marks Earth’s Changing Seasons

September 23, 2010
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‘Super’ Harvest Moon Marks Earth’s Changing Seasons

A bright Harvest moon ushered in the changing seasons on Earth late Wednesday (Sept. 22).

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What’s Witchcraft? 6 Misconceptions about Wiccans

September 23, 2010
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What’s Witchcraft? 6 Misconceptions about Wiccans

Christine O Donnell s admission to dabbling in witchcraft when she was a high school student during a 1999 interview has stirred up a lot of criticism – from both conservatives and Wiccans.

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World’s largest wind farm opens off UK coast

September 23, 2010
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World’s largest wind farm opens off UK coast

AP – The world s largest offshore wind farm opened off the southeast coast of England on Thursday, as part of the British government s push to boost renewable energy.

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Typhoon Fanapi kills 54 in China: state media (AFP)

September 23, 2010
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Typhoon Fanapi kills 54 in China: state media      (AFP)

AFP – Typhoon Fanapi, one of the strongest storms to hit China in years, has left 54 people dead and 42 missing in flooding and landslides in the south of the country, state media said on Thursday.

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World’s largest offshore wind farm opened in UK (AFP)

September 23, 2010
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World’s largest offshore wind farm opened in UK      (AFP)

AFP – The world s largest offshore wind farm opened in Britain on Thursday, as part of the government s bid to reduce the carbon emissions that drive climate change.

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A second day of technical troubles at Facebook (AFP)

September 23, 2010
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A second day of technical troubles at Facebook      (AFP)

AFP – Some Facebook users were temporarily shut out of the social networking service on Thursday as the website was beset by technical troubles for the second day in a row.

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Proceed With Caution to Oracle’s Proprietary Linux Kernel (PC World)

September 23, 2010
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Proceed With Caution to Oracle’s Proprietary Linux Kernel      (PC World)

PC World – After years of using Red Hat Enterprise Linux as the basis for its own Unbreakable Linux distribution, Oracle this week announced that it has created its own version of the Linux kernel that s optimized for use with its other enterprise offerings.

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