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Published: Feb 12, 2012
TO set the tone for her wedding in the Culver City, an incorporated city of Los Angeles, Michelle Dinh wanted an invitation as design-driven and as stylish as her feather-effect silk organza Oscar de la Renta gown and the converted garage in which the ceremony would be held. So to her pink and gray letterpress invitations, she added a Quick

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Published: Jan 17, 2012
The New England Journal of Medicine marks its 200th anniversary this year with a timeline celebrating the scientific advances first described in its pages: the stethoscope (1816), the use of ether for anesthesia (1846), and disinfecting hands and instruments before surgery (1867), among others. For centuries, this is how science has operated --

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Published: Jan 17, 2012
ROCHESTER -- In what was once the ultimate company town, virtually everyone has a trove of bright Kodak moments. They were plucked from the personal memories immortalized on the film made here, the bountiful jobs that allowed children to follow their parents into Kodak's secure embrace, the seemingly endless largess that once allowed the company's

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Published: Dec 06, 2011
The world has moved to a data-centric paradigm, the era of ''Big Data,'' in which hundreds of millions of computers and mobile devices are continuously creating staggering amounts of information about people and everything else. This can only accelerate. The change is so great that the computing tools we've used for the past decade are no longer

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Published: Dec 05, 2011
Social game makers like Zynga have gotten hundreds of millions of people to play their games, but one of the big raps on FarmVille, CityVille and other Facebook time-wasters is that they're too shallow to appeal to hard-core players. A company called Rumble is part of a new wave of hard-core social games startups that are trying to change that.

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Published: Nov 20, 2011
WHEN the tech firm Yipit moved last month from General Assembly, a communal office campus on 20th Street and Broadway, to its own loft space on 18th Street and Fifth Avenue, its 14 employees simply grabbed their coffee cups and MacBook Airs and did the job on foot. Arriving at their new home, they milled about, admiring the water-cooler, and the

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Published: Nov 20, 2011
WHEN the tech firm Yipit moved last month from General Assembly, a communal office campus on 20th Street and Broadway, to its own loft space on 18th Street and Fifth Avenue, its 14 employees simply grabbed their coffee cups and MacBook Airs and did the job on foot. Arriving at their new home, they milled about, admiring the water-cooler, and the

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Published: Nov 20, 2011
WHEN the tech firm Yipit moved last month from General Assembly, a communal office campus on 20th Street and Broadway, to its own loft space on 18th Street and Fifth Avenue, its 14 employees simply grabbed their coffee cups and MacBook Airs and did the job on foot. Arriving at their new home, they milled about, admiring the water-cooler, and the

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Published: Oct 31, 2011
PARIS -- With a sparkling start-up scene and a wealth of young talent, Romanian entrepreneurs, especially in the information technologies sector, are aiming for the global market. ''I am very optimistic about what start-ups can do in Romania,'' Jan Muehlfeit, chairman of Microsoft Europe, said in a telephone interview. The local pool of technology

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Published: Oct 20, 2011
THE after-work scene at the Tippler, a new tavern under the Chelsea Market, is nothing if not civilized. Thirty-somethings in blazers and oxfords (for the guys) and skirts and ballet flats (for the girls) mingle over oysters and handmade cocktails, presumably discussing the goings-on at their respective advertising agencies or Web startups. Weekend

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