Sony’s CEO Says E...

Sony’s made a lot of money selling TVs over the years. So it’s kind of a shock to the system to hear its CEO Howard Stringer say that it needs to completely overhaul the way it does business in televisions . More » Read more here:  Sony’s CEO Says Every TV...
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New Athlete Tracking Te...

They’re slowly taking over our world, but the one skillset that robots and computers haven’t mastered yet is sportscasting. Keeping track of every single player on a basketball court is a real challenge for an artificial intelligence, but researchers at the École...
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This Deep-Frying Portab...

Like a swiss army knife for epicureans, the collapsible Blacktop 360 grill includes all the cooking surfaces you’ll need to prepare breakfast, lunch, dinner, and everything in between. There’s even an optional cutting board for something called veg-e-tables. More »...
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Calling Bullshit On The...

Editor’s note : Guest contributor Paul Lee is a Partner at Lightbank Capital .  You can follow him @iPaulLee . A lot has been written about the Series A Crunch .  The gist of the argument is that the number of seed financings have gone up (with the advent of incubators such as...
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Ignition, Accel, Greylo...

Cloudera, the startup that commercially distributes and services Apache Hadoop based data management software and services, has raised $40 million in new funding led by Ignition Partners, Greylock, Accel, Meritech Capital Partners, and In-Q-Tel. Cloudera previously raised $36 million...
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How to Retain Your Star...

Morgan Norman is the Founder and CEO of WorkSimple , putting an end to performance reviews by providing a better way for coworkers and teams to share goals, work together, get and give feedback, and make each other shine. Connect with him and WorkSimple on Facebook and Twitter .
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5 Places to Get Work Do...

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum , where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. If you’re lucky, maybe you’re the kind of person for whom work is an international adventure, taking you to...
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Close Encounter: Huge A...

A 1,312-foot asteroid will soon pass within 201,000 miles of Earth, a distance closer than the Earth’s distance from the moon. The asteroid, 2005 YU55, will make its close encounter with the Earth at 6:28 p.m. EST on Nov. 8. The object will be visible from the northern hemisphere,...
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Simulated Mars Mission ...

Oh, Mars . As the possible next step in human space exploration, the Red Planet is bound to be visited by us bipeds someday. So what’s the best way to make sure something doesn’t go wrong? Make a simulated, 520 day-long mission with real astronauts and see how things turn...
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deel.io: Former Google ...

The daily deal space continues to be as active as ever. This means, on the one hand, there’s a lot of innovation and experimentation with new models happening in the space, but, on the other, there’s also plenty of derivative technology, clones, and noise. This is largely...
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