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  Groupon Shares Sinking; IPO Gains Nearly Wiped Out

  22nd November 2011 20:36

  For the second day in a row Tuesday, Groupon shares plummeted — and flirted with falling below the company’s $20 IPO price. Groupon…

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  Heroku Launches PostgreSQL Standalone Service

  22nd November 2011 20:20

  PostgreSQL is getting a lot of love from cloud providers this year. It was the first RDBMS chosen for OpenShift, and VMware gave the elephant a big squeeze earlier this year as the platform for its "database as a service." Now Heroku is launching PostgreSQL as a standalone service. Folks using Heroku as their PaaS have been able to choose PostgreSQL as their database of choice for some time. What's new here is that Heroku is letting people sign up…

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  Here’s What Ice Cream Sandwich Looks Like on a Tablet

  22nd November 2011 20:16

  Just days after Google released its latest Ice Cream Sandwich platform for Android to developers, Nvidia is offering a sneak preview of what the…

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  TV’s ’48 Hours’ Brings Mystery to the iPad

  22nd November 2011 19:47

  One of the more fascinating apps to arrive recently for the iPad is 48 Hours Mystery from the folks at CBS Interactive. The free app includes i…

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  Klout Now Scores Your Google+ Activity

  22nd November 2011 19:44

  Google+ users might see their Klout scores go up Tuesday. The social media ranking company Klout has built a scoring model to calculate activity…

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  Old Spice’s Latest Gambit: A Bear-Shaped Deodorant Holder [VIDEO]

  22nd November 2011 19:35

  Old Spice, looking to maintain the social media momentum that began with its breakthrough “The man your man can smell like” campaign fro…

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  How Non-Profits Can Use Mobile Digital Wallets for Fundraising

  22nd November 2011 19:34

  The Next Wave of Charitable Giving

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  How Google Apps Can Help You Unplug for the Holidays

  22nd November 2011 19:32

  This weird, wired century makes it difficult to let go of business and be present for the holidays. So many of us have powerful computers in our pockets, making it hard to resist checking our various Web thingies under the Thanksgiving dinner table. It's important to have a strategy for managing and prioritizing work over the holidays, so we can plan ahead and stop worrying about it. In an always-on world, it's all we can do. With us in mind,…

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  Google+ Lets You See Your Contacts’ +1s

  22nd November 2011 19:22

  Google+ has made it easier to see what articles and blogs your friends are reading, the company announced Tuesday. Articles that get a +1 from…

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  NASA Mars Rover Ready for Liftoff [VIDEO]

  22nd November 2011 19:06

  NASA’s $2.5 billion Mars rover dubbed “Curiosity” is set to liftoff on Saturday, the start of a 350+ million mile journe…