Archive for July 20th, 2012
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Interactive Player Piano Will Take Your Twitter Request for ‘Call Me Maybe’Posted by: wiredtechbiz in Wired Tech BizPlayer pianos haven’t been tearing up the scene since the first half of the last century. But this weekend, thanks to some crafty engineering, Seattle partiers will get to jam to one that takes requests via Twitter.
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Deep Inside a Facebook Hackathon, Where the Future of Social Media BeginsPosted by: wiredtechbiz in Wired Tech BizInside Facebook’s 32nd hackathon, a three-day event dubbed Camp Hackathon. If the company has its way, Facebook’s biggest new features ? the ones that haven’t even been invented yet ? will be germinated here.
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“Do Us a Flavor”: Lay’s Launches $1 Million Chip Flavor ContestPosted by: yahootechticker in Yahoo Tech TickerFollow The Daily Ticker on Facebook! Lay’s potato chips is calling on all Americans to help create its next chip flavor in celebration of its 75th anniversary next year. And there’s more. The creator of the winning chip will win a whopping $1 million dollars or 1% of the chip’s 2013 net sales (whichever turns [...]
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Food Prices Heading Higher: Midwest Drought Takes Heavy TollPosted by: yahootechticker in Yahoo Tech TickerThe record heat and lack of rainfall in the nation’s Corn Belt have caused corn stalks to shrivel and fertile planting soil to become arid, pushing corn and soybean prices to record levels — corn alone has gained more than 37 percent since early June. The desert-like conditions will almost certainly result in higher food [...]
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Fiscal Cliff = “Enormous Hit” to the Economy, Holtz-Eakin SaysPosted by: yahootechticker in Yahoo Tech TickerFollow The Daily Ticker on Facebook! America is headed for a fiscal cliff if members of Congress fails to act before the end of the year. Many economists agree that if no action is taken, 2013 will begin with a with a $600 billion drag on the economy, or a 4 to 5 percent hit [...]
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Great to see Microsoft making a success of SkypePosted by: theequitykicker in The Equity KickerMany great services whither and die following acquisition and when Microsoft acquired Skype I feared the worst. It turns out I was wrong. Microsoft announced yesterday that we all made 115bn minutes of calls over Skype last quarter, a whopping 50% up on the quarter before. They also announced an integration with Outlook which sounds pretty cool and that revenues in the division which is largely comprised of Skype were up 20%. It is great to see Microsoft's $8.5bn acquisition of Skype working out for a number of reasons:
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