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 Apple crowned world's most valuable brand once againAfter an incredible increase in sales, Apple is once again the most valuable brand in the world, according to the annual BrandZ study by leading market-research agency Millward Brown
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 Startup Punchcast aims for social-media sweet spotPunchcast is an online platform that seeks to bridge a social gap between Facebook and sharing sites such as YouTube and Twitter, using algorithms to connect users with like people and like interests
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 A little Clarity in Canadian startup sceneClarity, a new online service, provides tech startups with a portal to find new mentors, while giving the advisors a tool to manage calls from budding entrepreneurs
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 Looking for a car wash? There's an app for thatPress a button on your phone or click your mouse and wait for something to happen 'in real life.' That’s the basic idea behind the growing number of online-to-offline commerce companies
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 Cloud app developer Carbyn bought by Synacor in US$1.1M dealJust months after publicly unveiling its cloud-based HTML5 platform last September, London, Ont.-based Carbyn got a TechCrunch boost and lined up American buyer Synacor
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 Canadian e-reader outfit Kobo goes globalKobo is enjoying the fruits of what Michael Serbinis calls a sort of nuclear deterrence, where his company can comfortably build its international audience at a breakneck pace without looking over its shoulder
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 Asteroid mining startup unveils space exploration plansAfter drumming up speculation last week, Planetary Resources Inc. confirmed it does in fact plan to travel to and mine asteroids for everything from water to precious metals
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 Ubisoft sued by author over Assassin's Creed gameAn American author is suing game developer Ubisoft, claiming it stole his ideas to create the basic premise of the Assassin’s Creed video-game series, developed in the company’s Montreal studio
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 Google launches long-rumoured online storage service Google DriveGoogle's new service will be tightly integrated with Google Docs and will include 5GB of free storage and a desktop client for syncing files with the cloud
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 In gloomy narrative of failures, RIM sees fresh hope in AsiaBanking on India and Indonesia is a strategy that RIM hopes will help fill both a hole in its balance sheet and a half-year wait for its next big thing — the BlackBerry 10 platform
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 Apple, Foxconn forge landmark pact to improve working conditionsAccord between two biggest players expected to raise the bar for the way Western companies do business in China
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 How Facebook managed 3,000 twenty-somethings into a $100B companyFacebook is set to grow a lot from its current 3,200 employees in the next couple years as it begins life as a public company
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 Social news site Reddit the 'groundskeepers' of the InternetThe playful feel of Reddit's workspace belies the power of the site, an online destination that ranks in the Top 50 websites in the United States
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 Facebook makes room for everyoneFacebook’s upgrade to a full campus-style headquarters is emblematic of the company’s ascension from new kid on the block to Silicon Valley power broker
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 Netflix algorithms predicts what users really want (not what they think they do)In the world of Netflix each user has a fingerprint, a kind of detailed profile crammed with metadata that predicts which films they will like
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 RIM hopes laughter best medicine for sagging salesResearch in Motion, the embattled makers of BlackBerry smartphones, today unveiled the beginnings of a new campaign aimed at using humour to attract a younger market
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 Apple unveils new iPad, the Web reactsWhile it is far too early to pass judgment on Apple’s latest slate, the following are a few examples of what the Web has said of Apple’s 'resolutionary' new iPad thus far
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 Zynga downgraded as risk balances rewardLike an avid gamer playing a new title, Zynga Inc. followed a learning curve since it started playing in the public markets late last year
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 Nexopia social network 'breached Canadian privacy law'An investigation of youth-oriented social network Nexopia has revealed 'privacy flaws which must be addressed,' Canada’s privacy watchdog said Thursday
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 Ottawa's Shopify offers a cash 'kick in the butt' to get businesses onlineShopify wants every business to sell their goods and services online, even if it means the Ottawa-based e-commerce firm must offer them a bribe
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Postcards from Silicon Valley: The pilgrimage of the Mac faithful FP Tech Desk editor Matt Hartley is travelling across Silicon Valley this week, writing about the people and places at the heart of the technology world. Today, he visits Apple's headquarters
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 Nanotech's big breakHoles no wider than one billionth of a metre are large enough for Nanotech Security Corp. to break into a multibillion-dollar market
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 War over Web ownership rages as tech giants call for calmEven the technology world’s largest patent players are beginning to realize the industry’s state of perpetual patent warfare is getting out of hand
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 Angry Apple customers plan global petitionApple users are marching to the iPhone maker's headquarters and stores in D.C., New York, San Francisco, London, Sydney and Bangalore to deliver 250,000 petition signatures protesting worker abuse
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 Apple's results were so big ...… that there were more 'iPhones sold per day (402,000) than people born in the world per day (300,000)'
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