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The powerful new iPad app makes it easier than ever to go down the musical rabbit hole, surfacing your friends’ favorite songs and serving up a variety of additional features through a sleek touchscreen interface.

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It’s strange how little the ground shook when behemoth Microsoft announced its biggest cloud deployment, in India. What?s missing from the storyline? How such a large installation will take place. What are the realities and challenges behind ?the largest cloud deployment ever?? Victor Cruz reports.

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An Android developer says that Google needs to do more to stop what he says is widespread piracy of games on Android devices.

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Apple offers three generous gifts to product bootleggers: an iconic design language, an easily replicated logo and the most lucrative brand ID around. This leads to some pretty spectacular knockoffs. So here are 9 of the weirdest, most unique Apple-branded bootleg items of all time.

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It’s not everyday that a company sends you an iPad 3 and a case and asks you if you’d kindly put the iPad in the case and roll over with your vehicle. But that’s what the folks that make the Hammerhead Capo Hard Case for the iPad 2 and iPad 3 did… and I wasn’t going to turn down that opportunity!

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Obesity has become not only a national health threat, but also a major public health challenge in the U.S. More than one-third of American adults and 17% of the nation’s youth are obese, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC defines an “obese” adult as having a body mass index (BMI) [...]

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Facebook’s ability to make money from mobile is a hotly debated topic in the run up to their IPO. They have yet to start monetising their mobile traffic and it is growing really fast – therefore if you believe they will succeed in wringing cash from mobile then you are a long way towards believing their financial forecasts and their rumoured $100bn valuation.

Earlier this week they released some data which will have gone down well with the Facebook bulls (it would be surprising if they released anything else….):

• Facebook sent more than 160 million visitors last month to mobile apps (up from 60 million in late February).
• These mobile visitors were responsible for more than 1.1 billion visits to mobile apps in the same time frame (up from 320 million in late February).
• Seven of the top ten grossing iOS apps and six of the top ten grossing Android apps are integrated with Facebook.

That is 2-3x growth on some pretty big numbers impacting a majority of the most popular apps. The message is clear: Facebook is a very important driver of mobile app success.

I think they will find a way to make money from that.

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Nearly four years after U.S. taxpayers bailed out Wall Street, the debate over how to deal with America’s too big to fail banks rages on. One very outspoken critic of TBTF banks has been Dallas Fed President Richard Fisher. “The TBTF institutions that amplified and prolonged the recent financial crisis remain a hindrance to full [...]

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Stabilizing the housing market and reforming Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are two of the great challenges confronting U.S. policymakers. Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) has a plan for what he believes will kill two birds with one stone. Late last year, Sen. Corker introduced a bill, The Residential Mortgage Market Privatization and Standardization Act, designed [...]

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Investor T. Boone Pickens has made a fortune over the decades running an energy-oriented hedge fund, and in recent years he’s been placing big bets on the natural gas and wind industries. The 82-year-old founder and CEO of BP Capital has been one of the most fervent supporters of natural gas, promoting its usage throughout [...]

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