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Chinese tea farmers are switching to coffee
By David Pierson, Los Angeles Times, latimes.comBUSINESS
More lucrative than growing tea, coffee enjoys a new popularity among China’s younger generation with a thirst for Starbucks and Nestle.
PU’ER, China — This remote southwestern city near the borders of Laos and Myanmar is named af…
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Untitled: Business Meets Politics
Just heard on Fox Business News that Dodd-Frank & new consumer protection agency was supposed to limit big banks but after the laws were written, they harm small banks instead, while protecting big banks. No duh. That’s been the pattern for several decades now. Who writes the laws? Who are the…
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Business Meets Politics
Just heard on Fox Business News that Dodd-Frank & new consumer protection agency was supposed to limit big banks but after the laws were written, they harm small banks instead, while protecting big banks. No duh. That’s been the pattern for several decades now. Who writes the laws? Who are the staffers? Who runs the agencies? That’s right, corporate/big business types. They write/implement laws to drive out their competition, esp small business. Who did they support last election? Obama. We must down size big business as much as we do big gov.
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The phone is poised to usurp the PC’s throne
By John SanGiovanni, Zumobi, gigaom.comNo one disputes the transformative change that desktop and mobile computing platforms have had on human communication in recent years. While the hierarchy of these devices is continuously evolving, phones are increasingly…
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Do People Really Want Self-Driving Cars?
Mashable Video, mashable.com
Who wants a self driving car? Researchers at J.D. Power and Associates conducted a study to find out who would be willing to buy a car with such futuristic features, and the reaction was certainly not unanimous. In this video, Adam F…
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Students Studying Abroad: Take Advantage of Video Job Interviews
Josh Tolan, mashable.comJosh Tolan is the CEO of Spark Hire, which combines a video job board and online interviewing platform to enrich interaction between job seekers and employers. Connect with him and Spark Hire on Facebook and Twitter.
Studying…
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Full FCC report on Google Street View reveals new details
By Jessica Guynn, Los Angeles Times, latimes.comThe Google engineer who wrote the code enabling Street View cars to capture data from unprotected wireless networks told fellow engineers and a manager that he had done so, the FCC report says.
SAN FRANCISCO — New revelations in a…
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Ranger 12? A 1964 Proposal to Extend the Ranger Lunar Program
By David S. F. Portree, wired.comIn the summer and fall of 1962, NASA Headquarters planned at least 18 missions in the Ranger series. Some would have imaged the moon’s surface to certify potential Apollo landing sites, while others would have had a more purely…
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HP’s Pavillion dv6t and dv7t laptops updated with Ivy Bridge processors, shipping on May 8th
By Nathan Ingraham, theverge.comIntel officially launched its long-awaited Ivy Bridge processors last week, and since then a number of manufacturers have released new products taking advantage of this new architecture. HP’s already launched some new desktops, and n…
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Why solar will thrive in India: coal is a mess
By Katie Fehrenbacher, gigaom.comIndia is struggling to add more electricity capacity for the country’s rapidly growing economy, but the domestic coal industry is an absolute mess, points out articles in the New York Times and the Economist this month. That…
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