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      <title><![CDATA[Twitter bows to Whitney Houston]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[There is much outpouring from stars on Twitter at the death of Whitney Houston. Moreover, Houston-related themes dominate the site's top 10 trends. At least in the U.S.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Antipirates attacked for pirating NFL game]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Web fulminates when it is revealed that executives from VEVO--vehement music industry antipirates--played a pirated stream of an NFL playoff game at a party. VEVO claims it left its Wi-Fi unsupervised. Have we heard that argument before?]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Jeremy Lin crushing it as overnight Twitter star]]></title>
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      <title><![CDATA[European regulators reported set to OK Google-Motorola deal]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Reuters reports that the European Union will approved the $12.5 billion acquisition without any conditions on Monday.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Reporters' Roundtable: Failure is always an option]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[With guests Owen Thomas and Brooke Hammerling, I look at how tech companies deal with failures and errors: Apple, Google, Facebook, Airbnb, and most recently, Path. How can you recover? How do you prepare?]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Microsoft to open four more stores, report says]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Little by little, the software company is expanding its brick-and-mortar retail presence and now plans to move into other countries, according to a report in The Verge.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[How sites like MegaUpload make millions from pirated video]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[MegaUpload makes money the same way many legitimate sites do--through search, social media, ad networks, and online payment processors.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Teen whines about parents on Facebook, dad shoots laptop]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A 15-year-old complains on Facebook about the domestic chores she has to do. She whines about her parents in general. So her Dad, who works in IT, takes her laptop outside and blasts it.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[My Jetsons moment: Three iPads and a sick daughter]]></title>
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      <title><![CDATA[Lady Gaga social network is for little monsters' eyes only]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[All of Lady Gaga's little monsters will soon be able to connect with one another virtually, as the megastar prepares to launch her own social-networking site.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[An Amazon exec threw cold water on those rumors that the company was planning to spin off a video-subscription service.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Latest Google Wallet hack picks your pocket]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Researchers had just identified a brute-force way to crack Google Wallet PINs, and now there's another--and much easier--way to access a Wallet account.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Iran cuts off Internet access]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Regime turns out the lights in advance of reported demonstrations planned for the weekend.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Latest Yahoo rumor: A possible cash-and-stock trade with Alibaba]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The company is reportedly considering reducing its stake in Alibaba and raising billions of dollars in cash through the deal.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Xbox 360 scores huge sales win in January]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The video game slump continued last month, but the Xbox 360 turned in another winning performance as the top selling console.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Friday Poll: Has Pinterest piqued your interest?]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Pinterest is the scrappy scrapbooking underdog of social-media sites, but it's making a name for itself, especially among women with wedding plans. Are you hot on Pinterest or covering a yawn?]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Kickstarter racks up over $2 million for two projects]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[For the first time ever, two projects on the crowd-source funding platform exceeded $1 million each--both in the same day.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[E-mail viruses most likely to appear in the morning]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Cybercriminals tend to e-mail viruses from 8 a.m. to 9 a.m., a new Global Security Report reveals.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Patent-holding company claimed a host of Web giants owed it hundreds of millions in royalties for their use of online video streaming, search suggestions, and other "interactive" elements on pages.]]></description>
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