LinkedIn just announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire Bizo, a company that helps advertisers reach businesses and professionals. LinkedIn says the deal is worth around $175 million — 90 percent cash and 10 percent stock.
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The phone has specs that rival top-tier phones like Samsung’s Galaxy S5 and the iPhone 5S. It has a 5-inch screen and runs a special modified version of Android that Xiaomi uses in all of its phones. Xiaomi is the buzziest smartphone maker at the moment.
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The American work force has been growing polarized for decades. On one end, there are highly skilled jobs like writing software or performing surgery, and on the other are service jobs like child care and cutting hair.
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Since the murder of three Israeli teenagers in the West Bank last month, simmering tensions between Israel and Palestine have risen to a boil. Blaming the resistance group Hamas for the killings, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised a swift retaliation.
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Could a person who is paralyzed and unable to speak, like physicist Stephen Hawking, use a brain implant to carry on a conversation? That’s the goal of an expanding research effort at U.S.
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Taschen unveils 75 Years of Marvel, an absolutely massive XL edition worthy of Stan Lee and Jack Kirby’s larger than life creations: “From the very first issue of pulp impresario Martin Goodman’s Marvel Comics in 1939, the comic book creators of Marvel’s Golden Age flipped the traditional fantasy
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More than 180 neuroscientists have signed an open letter to the European Commission calling on it to reconsider the technical goals and oversight of one of the world’s largest brain-mapping projects, predicting it is likely to fail.
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Does your company make medical devices? How about cars? Or appliances? Or mobile applications? Do you have an external website? If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, then your company is a software company.
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Edox brings it back to the ’60s with a modern take on one of their original pieces, the Hydrosub North Pole “Master Lock.” The cushion-cased watch features a Master Lock crown protector that slides up to reveal the crown and back up down to secure and shield it.
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