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  • YouTube will be showing three hours of exclusive content every day during the Olympic games, provided by the International Olympic Committee. …

  • Cable television companies have won a significant court victory with a ruling that will allow them to provide subscribers with "network DVR"…

  • Venture capitalists think there's green in green. Investments in U.S. clean-tech companies grew by 41% to $961.7 million in the second quarter of…

  • Given the true nature of the site the "R" in "Free" has got to be a typo. If you log on to the site and sign up, you're not going to get away with…

  • After all the brouhaha over whether Microsoft and Yahoo would merge, and whether Carl Icahn would move in for a takeover, the company's annual…

  • Prius may be one of the few products in the auto industry that you could actually call "scarce." Many Toyota dealers are putting buyers on waiting…

  • News that scientists have developed a drug that mimics the benefits of exercise — in mice, anyway — quickly rose to the top of numerous website…

  • While travelers at America's imports are removing their shoes, putting laptop computers through separately and removing all items from their pock…

  • The police department in Flint, Michigan could use a little extra cash to cover 14 new surveillance cameras. So the city's come up with a plan to…

  • When the ground started moving here in Southern California, the "tweets" on Twitter started flowing. And it didn't take long for some online…

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