News: Business & Finance

• Motorola probably sold 250,000 Droids in first week, Flurry says
  Kim-Mai Cutler
  Nov 16 2009

  Motorola probably sold 250,000 Droids in the first week, making it the Android platform’s first legitimate challenger to the iPhone, according to analytics firm Flurry. Those figures are more ...

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• Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen has lymphoma
  Robert McMillan
  Nov 16 2009

  Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen has been diagnosed with lymphoma. The 56-year-old Allen was diagnosed with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma earlier this month, according to a letter sent by his sister, ...

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• Chinese Suntech eyes panel assembly site in Arizona
  Camille Ricketts
  Nov 16 2009

  Chinese solar company Suntech Power Holdings is primed to become the first recipient of Arizona’s property tax reduction and tax credit incentives policies. With a 100,000 square-foot solar ...

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• How much has Facebook’s valuation grown this year? Not much, says Sharespost report
  Kim-Mai Cutler
  Nov 16 2009

  Has a bull market help lift Facebook’s value in the eyes of investors? Not really, says a report by NeXt Up Research, a firm founded by Michael Moe, a former director of global growth ...

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• Electric drag-races: The trend toward performance-focused EVs
  Tom Slater
  Nov 16 2009

  Acceleration is a U.S. tradition, harkening back to a time when Main Street on a Friday night was an endless series of drag races a la American Graffiti. Back then, a 1974 GTO ran a quarter mile in ...

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• EDS loses $60m ATO desktop contract
  Trevor Clarke
  Nov 16 2009

  EDS will lose its $60 million Australian Taxation Office (ATO) End User Computing (EUC) services contract from June 2012 after the agency announced a short list of new providers. In a statement the ...

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• NHS launches care records but serious data concerns remain
  Leo King
  Nov 16 2009

  The NHS has said it will accelerate and complete the rollout of summary care records over the next year, reigniting doctors' concerns over the information in the records and whether patients ...

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• Google Earth adds custom map-viewing to iPhone app
  Kim-Mai Cutler
  Nov 16 2009

  Google Earth is adding custom map-sharing to its iPhone app — so you can share anything from your favorite places in Barcelona to a preferred hiking trail with friends. (They’ve given a ...

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• College puts entire courses on USB drives
  Lucas Mearian
  Nov 16 2009

  Thomas Edison State College is looking to accelerate the deployment of a new course delivery system that uses USB drives loaded with entire courses and associated applications to help students ...

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• Appirio launches interactive cloud computing map
  Cody Barbierri
  Nov 16 2009

  Companies often realize the potential of cloud computing but lack the resources and knowledge to proceed with any kind of integration. Enter Appirio, a startup cloud solution provider, that has ...

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