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BBC BBC Sport asks a host of tennis experts their opinions. (Read More)

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Mashable! This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark.Name: LaunchlyQuick Pitch: Launchly showcases new websites to an audience to (Read More)

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FriendFeed Blog One of the coolest things about FriendFeed is how you can see everything that's happening on the site in real-time. Starting today, this is even more true with real-time search.Just enter a search query as you always have, and see new results instantly stream in at the top of your screen in real-time. No need to constantly (Read More)

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readwriteweb This is one post/chapter in a serialized book called Startup 101. For the introduction and table of contents, please click here.First-time entrepreneurs are usually also first-time CEOs. When you look at your first business card that says CEO, don't forget that it is not necessarily telling the truth. You earn the title of (Read More)

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readwriteweb If you were a little blue bird, with a good pile of money and a whole lot of hype, what would you buy to spice up your nest? There are so many little services being built on top of Twitter that we wouldn't be surprised to see some more of them acquired by the company soon. That would mean more features for everyday users (Read More)

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ReadWriteWeb FriendFeed, the multi-network activity aggregator co-founded by GMail creator Paul Buchheit, announced today that it has entered the crowded field of real time search. FriendFeed was already the best way to learn what early adopter social media users were saying about any topic across blogs, Twitter, delicious and other di (Read More)

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Submitted by Lucaswyrsch: Basin Electric Power Cooperative was awarded $100 million in stimulus money Wednesday for clean coal projects.U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu visited Bismarck State College to announce the funds with Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., and Gov. John Hoeven."The world is not going to turn its (Read More)

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Top of the Ticket Governor Sarah Palin announced today that she will not seek a second term as Governor of the State of Alaska and will relegate the power of governor to Lieutenant Governor Sean Parnell in order to serve Alaska’s best interests.  Lieutenant General Craig Campbell will move into Parnell’s current role.“People who know me know (Read More)

May 13, 2006

Submitted by Lucaswyrsch from Google Reader: Google says search engines still its future despite new gadgets - Google has unveiled a new wave of software and desktop gadgetry in its ongoing quest to dominate users' experience of the internet. The world's most popular search engine, which faces mounting competition from rivals Microsoft and Yahoo, showcased innovations (Read More)

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Submitted by Lucaswyrsch: Immer mehr Menschen geben in sozialen Netzwerken sehr persönliche Daten preis. Damit liefern sie auch Material für Arbeitgeber und sogar für Geheimdienste. Der eidgenössische Datenschutzbeauftragte will Fehlentwicklungen vermeiden.(sda) Der eidgenössische Datenschutz- und Öffentlichkeitsbeauftragte Hanspeter Thür muss sich (Read More)

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Submitted by Lucaswyrsch: Während die klassischen Medien versuchen, die Blogger-Kultur zu integrieren, geht Youtube den umgekehrten Weg. Die Video-Plattform will sich den Journalismus aneignen. Sie bietet den Usern einen Crashkurs, der die Grundregeln des publizistischen Handwerks vermitteln soll (www. youtube.com/reporterscenter). Prominente US-Jou (Read More)

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Submitted by Lucaswyrsch: Soziale Netzwerke wie Facebook oder MySpace haben schnell wachsenden Zulauf. Die Benutzer sind bereit, viele persönliche Daten von sich im weltweiten Netz zu veröffentlichen. Dabei vergessen sie oft die Risiken, die damit verbunden sind.ubl. Der Schweizer Datenschutzbeauftragte Hanspeter Thür bringt es auf den Punkt: «Das I (Read More)

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Submitted by Lucaswyrsch: Cyber criminals have changed tack in their ongoing scam campaign against banks, moving to the use of government agencies to gain the trust of unsuspecting email recipients.In a new phishing email, purporting to be from the Australian Federal Police’s Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Division, scammers inform rec (Read More)

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Submitted by Lucaswyrsch: A rogue trader at a London oil broker caused his employer to lose $10m (£6m) after making unauthorised trades.PVM Oil Futures said it was a "victim of unauthorised trading" on Tuesday, 30 June and said it was conducting a full investigation.It named the rogue trader as Steve Perkins and said he had been suspended.PVM said i (Read More)

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Submitted by Lucaswyrsch: It would be "disastrous" for bankers if they returned to their old ways and repeated past mistakes, Chancellor Alistair Darling has warned.As reports suggest a return of the City bonus culture, Mr Darling said some people there were too complacent and needed "to be brought back to Earth".He told the Independent that ministe (Read More)

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