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Social Trip Planning App Tripshare Converts Travel Inspiration To Bookings by TechCrunch on 06:30 PM

Tripshare, an iPad application for travel planning, is joining a crowded space. But its CEO knows a little something about the industry – Bob Dana was the former employee #1 and first CFO o(...)

Building Solar in Spain Instead of Germany Could Save Billions by Mashable on 06:30 PM

Building solar and wind projects in the wrong place is wasting billions of dollars in Europe.Siemens says it would make sense to build solar power plants in sunny countries in Europe rather than (...)

Software and the physical world by O'Reilly Radar on 06:15 PM

In this episode of the Radar podcast series Jon Bruner and I are joined by Mike Loukides as we muse more on software and the physical world. No coffee shop clatter in the background this time aro(...)

Parakweet uses natural language processing to find value in your tweets by GigaOM on 06:15 PM

Looking for a book suggestion? Culling information from your Twitter feed and turning that into accurate recommendations is harder than it looks, but Parakweet is looking to use natural language (...)

Aruba buys indoor-location startup Meridian. Here’s why by GigaOM on 06:15 PM

Meridian works with companies that want to bring detailed location awareness to their mobile apps using their Wi-Fi networks as guideposts. If you're Aruba, that's not a bad feature to have in yo(...)

Is Gamification Just a Fad? by Mashable on 06:00 PM

A term called gamification has taken UX by storm over the past few years, a trend likely spurred by Foursquare's success with badges. Whether they understand it or not, app designers desire to cr(...)

Now Netflix Is Promoting “Arrested Development” On Seamless.com by TechCrunch on 06:00 PM

How do you market a hot new TV show without the benefit of commercial space which you can fill with network promos? Just ask Netflix. The company has come up with a number of clever marketing stu(...)

Michigan Tech Sponsors A 3D Printers For Peace Contest by TechCrunch on 06:00 PM

Now that Defense Distributed is on the defensive, it's time to think a bit harder about what 3D printing really means. To that end, Michigan Tech is sponsoring a Printers For Peace contest that i(...)

AWS is the McDonald’s of the cloud. Who’s the Burger King? by GigaOM on 05:45 PM

It's easy to characterize the cloud computing market as being Amazon Web Services' to lose, but that doesn't tell the whole story. McDonald's dominates the fast food world, but life isn't exactly(...)

Congress to Grill Tim Cook Over Apple's Offshore Wealth by Mashable on 05:45 PM

Mr. Cook is going to Washington.Apple CEO Tim Cook will testify before Congress Tuesday about the company's approximately $100 billion held overseas — more than double the estimated $45 bil(...)

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