News: Business & Finance

• MyFit raises $1M to help parents with college applications
  Anthony Ha
  Nov 19 2009

  MyFit, a new services that helps parents figure out how to get their children into the college of their choice, has raised $1 million in a first round of funding, led by New Enterprise Associates. ...

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• FAA glitch shines spotlight on troubled telco project
  Jaikumar Vijayan
  Nov 19 2009

  The outage of a computer system used by airline pilots to file flight plans in the U.S will likely prompt a closer look at a $2.4 billion telecommunications system that has grappled with numerous ...

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• GreenBeat: Steve Westly spreads the Smart Grid gospel, says innovation should fly fast and loose
  Tom Slater
  Nov 19 2009

  Steve Westly, former California state controller and now founder of the venture firm Westly Group, says he got interested in the Smart Grid and cleantech in order to save the world and make massive ...

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• Wall Street Beat: After yearly high, doubts remain for tech
  Marc Ferranti
  Nov 19 2009

  In a tumultuous week on the market, the attention of IT investors was captured by a mixed bag of acquisition activity and earnings news from the hardware and chip arena -- a sector that is supposed ...

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• New targeting on Pages gives Facebook leg up over Twitter for marketers
  Kim-Mai Cutler
  Nov 19 2009

  Facebook unveiled what could become a pretty powerful marketing tool for large multinationals and brands last night. You can now target specific locations and languages when you send out updates on ...

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• GreenBeat: At the international level, Smart Grid is about engagement (and standards)
  Tom Slater
  Nov 19 2009

  During GreenBeat 2009’s International breakout panel, examining Smart Grid development on the global level, the prevalent theme was consumer engagement: in a regulated environment, like the ...

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• Google creates automatic captions for YouTube videos
  Cody Barbierri
  Nov 19 2009

  Google announced today that YouTube will be able to automatically include captions in videos. Previously, you had to enter the caption manually while the video was uploading, an option that was ...

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• NetApp’s revenues dip two per cent to US$1.75 billion
  CIO Asia writer
  Nov 19 2009

  NetApp's revenues in the six-month period of the fiscal year dropped two per cent to US$1.75 billion, the company's quarterly financial report stated. The contraction in the second quarter ended ...

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• Companies fear wrath of ex-staff
  Kathleen Lau
  Nov 19 2009

  Organizations that have had to let go staff during this economic downturn fear reprisals from disgruntled ex-employees, according to a recent global survey by Ernst & Young LLP. For its annual ...

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• GreenBeat: Google’s Ed Lu declares PowerMeter a humanitarian mission
  Tom Slater
  Nov 19 2009

  Google’s Ed Lu said today that his company’s entry into the energy network market doesn’t mean that utilities have to worry about the search giant generating or distributing ...

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