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Google finally shuts down its first social network, Orkut (updated)

Apple's iTunes U update brings new discussion and course-creation tools to the iPad

App network Perion acquires mobile ad marketing firm Grow

Associated Press backs Automated Insights to automate boring earnings reports

Digital health startups have taken $2.2B in funding so far in 2014, already besting 2013 total (report)

New NSA chief says Snowden did not irreparably damage national security

Microsoft and Twitter make Bing a better social search engine
MapR Closes $110 Million Financing Led by Google Capital
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The CoreOS revolution continues as the startup takes $8M

MapR grabs $110M in funding and debt to play harder in the Hadoop game

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Lead Facebook researcher expresses regret over secret 2012 'mood' study

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Google's Eric Schmidt makes a secret visit to Cuba

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Facebook secretly experimented with the moods of 700,000 of its users

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Follow Airbnb's journey from scrappy startup to $10B company (video)

NASA has nothing on these moon-bound robots

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Watch live as NASA tests its supersonic 'flying saucer' craft

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Aereo terminates service following Supreme Court ruling

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Cisco buys cloud collaboration startup Assemblage
