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'We won't screw it up': Yahoo buys New York-based social network Tumblr for $1.1bn as chief executive Marissa Mayer rules out radical changes

Yahoo today made its acquisition of Tumblr. official with a first post on the blogging-platform titled "Tumblr. + Yahoo! = !!".

19 hours ago from The Independent

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Finnish start-up launches smartphone to rival giants

A group of ex-Nokia employees who quit over the company's decision to abandon the planned MeeGo operating system in favour of Windows presented their own smartphone on Monday, hoping to rival ...

19 hours ago from Phys.org

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Yahoo gives Flickr a new face, a new app, and a new business model

New pricing makes free accounts awesome; paid ones almost pointless.

10 hours ago from Arstechnica

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Flightless penguin puzzle 'solved'

The underwater prowess of the penguin may have cost the bird its ability to fly, scientists believe.

5 hours ago from BBC News

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High school student develops supercapacitor, wins Young Scientist Award

(Phys.org) —Saratoga California high school student Eesha Khare is a co-winner of this year's Young Scientist Award sponsored by Intel. She won the award for her battery-sized supercapacitor ...

21 hours ago from Phys.org

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Opera For Android Exits Beta

Android users, if you're not a fan of the default browser of Google Chrome, you're in luck because an alternative has just been made available for you. Just after 3 months of launching in beta ...

1 hours ago from Ubergizmo

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Sprint to listen to Dish offer

(AP)—Wireless company Sprint Nextel Corp. says it can now let Dish Network Corp. see its books and talk with Dish to see whether its competing offer to buy Sprint is better than its current ...

54 minutes ago from Phys.org

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Google Voice finds a new home in Google+ Hangouts

Google Voice has found a new home within Hangouts in Google+. Last week at Google I/O, the new standalone version of Hangouts was unveiled as an amalgam of all current Google messaging products ...

13 hours ago from Techspot

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Navy dolphin finds 130-year-old torpedo

A Navy dolphin training to look for mines off the coast of San Diego found a museum-worthy 19th-century torpedo on the seafloor, military officials said.

24 minutes ago from FOXNews

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Ant abilities could aid robot design

A study showing how ants tunnel their way through confined spaces could aid the design of search and rescue robots, say scientists.

5 hours ago from BBC News

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