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• Aravo raises $19M for supplier info tracking
  Camille Ricketts
  Nov 24 2009

  Aravo Solutions, provider of software that helps companies manage their supply chains and corporate risk and responsibility, has raised $19 million of a targeted $22.1 million fourth round of ...

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• Clean energy initiatives get $63M from DOE with wind in the lead
  Camille Ricketts
  Nov 24 2009

  Before the U.S. Department of Energy announced its $620 million in grants for Smart Grid demonstration projects today, it rolled out $63 million for clean energy innovations, with $45 million in ...

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• Racist image tops Google search results for Michelle Obama
  Sumner Lemon
  Nov 24 2009

  The top-ranked result for U.S. first lady Michelle Obama on Google's image search engine Thursday was a racist caricature that depicted her with the face of a chimpanzee, just below a link to a ...

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• Clearwire takes on $920M more to build out wireless networks
  Anthony Ha
  Nov 24 2009

  Clearwire is raising a lot more cash as it attempts to build a national high-speed, 4G wireless network using WiMax technology. Today, it announced $920 million in debt financing. The company already ...

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• Driving app Waze turns the highway into a Pac-Man game with ‘Road Goodies’
  Anthony Ha
  Nov 24 2009

  Mobile driving application Waze is adding a little extra inventive for users to help build out its crowdsourced maps. It already offers users points for “munching” up the road — ...

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• White House sends out 'world is flat' message with India visit
  Patrick Thibodeau
  Nov 24 2009

  The California wine served at a U.S. State Dept. lunch today for India's Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, was called Conundrum, a word that sums up the difficulty trying to decipher President Barack ...

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• Announcing the DiscoveryBeat Apps Contest, sponsored by Flurry
  Dean Takahashi
  Nov 24 2009

  We’re holding a contest in conjunction with our DiscoveryBeat event to be held on Dec. 8 at the Automattic Lounge on Pier 38 in San Francisco. The DiscoveryBeat Apps Contest is being sponsored ...

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• Palm, Sprint pursue lost data from Pre, Pixi
  Stephen Lawson
  Nov 24 2009

  Palm and Sprint are trying to solve problems some users have had moving data from one Palm webOS device to another, a task that has caused some to lose contacts and calendar entries, according to ...

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• CSIRO beefs up research with GPU cluster
  Kathryn Edwards
  Nov 24 2009

  A supercomputer which combines the central processing units (CPUs) found in traditional PCs, with more powerful graphics processing units (GPUs) will be launched by the Commonwealth Scientific and ...

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• Amidio launches Touch DJ with ‘visual mixing’
  Tom Slater
  Nov 24 2009

  Mobile music app maker Amidio launched its Touch DJ application for the iPhone today, allowing users to spin and mix music right on their handsets. Since a demo of the app appeared on YouTube on ...

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