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China Mobile to Buy $5.8 Billion Stake in Pudong Bank (Update3)

Business Week - Tech - 11 hours 37 min ago
China Mobile Ltd., the world’s biggest phone company by market value, agreed to buy 20 percent of Shanghai Pudong Development Bank Co. for 39.8 billion yuan ($5.8 billion) to expand its electronic-payment business.
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China Mobile Buys 20% Stake in Pudong Development Bank

Business Week - Tech - 15 hours 14 min ago
China Mobile Ltd. said its Guangdong Mobile unit agreed to subscribe for 2.2 billion A shares in Shanghai Pudong Development Bank for 39.8 billion yuan, giving it a 20 percent stake in the company.
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America Movil Seeks Approval to Pay Dividend, Buy Back Shares

Business Week - Tech - Wed, 03/10/2010 - 5:31am
America Movil SAB, Latin America’s biggest wireless-phone carrier, proposed to pay a one-time dividend of 32 centavos a share and buy back more of its stock, even as it plans the region’s largest acquisition this year.
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Google Maps Finally Adds Bike Routes

Wired - Wed, 03/10/2010 - 5:01am
With a click of a mouse, cyclists can get the quickest, and flattest, route between Point A and Point B.


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March 10, 2000: Pop Goes the Nasdaq!

Wired - Wed, 03/10/2010 - 5:00am
The Nasdaq begins its spectacular collapse, signaling the end of the dot-com boom.


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FCC Broadband Plan: Long Haul Expected

Business Week - Tech - Wed, 03/10/2010 - 4:45am
Parts of the plan, due Mar. 16, are already meeting opposition and are likely to take years to execute
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PCCW Says Chairman Richard Li’s Buyout Plans ‘Dead’ (Update3)

Business Week - Tech - Wed, 03/10/2010 - 4:30am
PCCW Ltd., linked to a police probe following a court ruling that a buyout bid by Chairman Richard Li had been manipulated, said investors at Hong Kong’s biggest phone company should consider the takeover plan as “dead.”
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Veil Lifts on Apple's Secret Plan to Control Universe

Wired - Wed, 03/10/2010 - 1:00am
The recently unveiled secret agreement that Apple makes iPhone developers sign supports what many have suspected all along: Apple is trying to control the universe.


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Texters Should Park the Car, Take the Bus

Wired - Wed, 03/10/2010 - 1:00am
Taking public transit wouldn't just decrease our carbon footprint — it'd also end all that fiddling with the phone while driving, an insanely dangerous problem.


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Bottled Wind Could Be as Constant as Coal

Wired - Wed, 03/10/2010 - 1:00am
Huge projects that would store wind energy by compressing air in abandoned mines and porous sandstone are gaining steam in the Midwest.


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10 Years After: A Look Back at the Dot-Com Boom and Bust

Wired - Wed, 03/10/2010 - 1:00am
The Nasdaq peaked at 5,049 on March 10, 2000, then it promptly nosedived and hasn't come near that level since. Here’s a look at the era that launched — and crushed — a million dreams.


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Fujitsu Probe Fails to Defuse Controversy Over Nozoe (Update1)

Business Week - Tech - Wed, 03/10/2010 - 12:09am
Fujitsu Ltd., the computer company embroiled in a dispute with its former chief, was inadequately probed by Japan’s main stock exchange over the disclosure of President Kuniaki Nozoe’s resignation, investors said.
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Review: Science Trips Out on Music in 'The Heart Is a Drum Machine'

Wired - Tue, 03/09/2010 - 10:32pm
Through interviews with a brainy crop of musicians and scientists, a new documentary probes the connection between body, mind and music.


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Broadcast Video From Your Mobile

Wired - Tue, 03/09/2010 - 10:30pm
You're carrying around a video camera in your pocket (it's that thing attached to your mobile phone) so be prepared and learn how to start streaming video to the web at a moment's notice.


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Oldest Known Flying 'Car' Up for Auction

Wired - Tue, 03/09/2010 - 10:15pm
It's from 1934, and it doesn't look like a car, and it doesn't look like it would fly.


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Hot Property Sex.com on Auction Block

Wired - Tue, 03/09/2010 - 10:10pm
It’s a sadly familiar story from the high-flying market of the past few years: Speculator thinks values will continue to go up, up, up. Overbids for a hot property. Can’t keep up with the payments. Lender is forced to foreclose. Only this isn’t about real estate — it’s about the most expensive domain name in the history of the internet: sex.com.


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Storyboard: Extreme-Test War Stories

Wired - Tue, 03/09/2010 - 9:46pm
From blasting body armor to testing the limits of a satellite tracker, the Wired magazine team talks about putting survival products through the real-world wringer.


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Your Computer Really Is a Part of You

Wired - Tue, 03/09/2010 - 9:40pm
Philosopher Martin Heidegger thought that our tools eventually become a part of us cognitively. Now a scientist has found he was right. Your mouse and monitor affect the way you think.


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Just How Fast Is Cisco's New Router? Really Freaking Fast

Wired - Tue, 03/09/2010 - 9:39pm
Cisco's new CRS-3 router is capable of 322 terabits per second, the company says. That's fast enough to download the entire Library of Congress in about a second.


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Cisco Unveils Faster Internet Router to Lure Carriers

Business Week - Tech - Tue, 03/09/2010 - 9:14pm
In a bid to boost sales to phone carriers, the world's No. 1 networking-gear maker unveiled a router that boosts Web-download speeds
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