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Yahoo to Name New CEO: AllThingsD Web site

Yahoo is poised to name PayPal President Scott Thompson as chief executive after firing former CEO Carol Bartz in September, Web site AllThingsD reported, citing sources close to the situation.

Top 10 Tech Companies to Work for in 2012

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Every year, a company called Glassdoor does employee surveys to find out who are the best companies to work for. The surveys are anonymous, so that could work for or against a particular company, but Glassdoor has made the results public every year for the last four.
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Esme Barrera: Suspect Sketch Released, Austin's First Homicide Victim of 2012 Remembered

Barrera, 29, Austin's first homicide victim of 2012, was a teaching assistant for children with special needs and a die-hard music lover who worked at Waterloo Records and as a camp counselor at Girls Rock Austin. Police believe a suspect in two New Year's attacks may be the same man who killed Barrera, and are investigating leads while friends and family mourn Barrera's passing.
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India's flashy new rich drive luxury car boom

From farmers who swapped fields for cash to 20-something CEOs that inherited the family business, hot new money is flooding India's luxury car market as roaring sportscar engines announce the country's growing wealth on its roads.
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Samsung Digital Camera Debuts Front-Facing Screen and Wi-Fi

Like many post-holiday gift-getters, you may be taking more time out of your day to take more pictures with your new glitzy smartphone. Smartphone cameras came a long way in 2011, to the point where digital point and shoot camera sales began falling off.
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my4oneone.com: Social Networking Gets More Personal

A new Web site called my4oneone.com launched on Sunday, Jan.1, adding another dimension to the social networking scenario. The new service is a platform that allows users to store and access a wide variety of personal information, said a PR Newswire release.
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The 10 Most-Visited Web Sites of 2011: Nielsen Places Google Ahead of Facebook

Earlier this week, Experian Hitwise released its annual list of the most-visited Web sites of 2011; unsurprisingly Facebook topped the list, surpassing Google. Just a few days after that Nielsen Research came out with its own analysis and released its own list of the 10 most-visited Web sites, putting Google on top.
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Google Ending 2011 on High Note: Analyst

Robert W. Baird believes that Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) finished 2011 on a strong note, with healthy Search and e-commerce trends likely driving upside to consensus estimates. The brokerage reiterated its outperform rating on shares of Google, while increasing its price target to $760 from $700.
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Think Before You ‘Like’ on Facebook

The founder and president of New York City's Pace Public Relations is a successful and sober-minded individual, but when it comes to this one thing, she has a definite compulsion. It's the Like button on Facebook -- she just can't stop clicking it.
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Can crowdsourcing shake up education?

Former teacher Alex Grodd is betting on social media to solve a big problem in education: how to tap other teachers' hands-on experience for what works in the classroom.

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