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Age-Old question: Can Commercial Software Succeed in an Open-Source World?
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Best and Worst Graduate Degrees For Jobs in 2015
PayScale crunched the numbers for Fortune and identified the grad degrees that lead to lucrative careers—and those that lead to high stress and low pay.
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What Do Consumers Want? Better Batteries, Not Wearables
The top tech need on the mind of most Americans isn't sharper televisions, smarter watches.
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Is Tony Fadell the Next Steve Jobs or ... the Next Larry Page?
In the late 1990s a young entrepreneur named Tony Fadell tried to persuade Stewart Alsop, a journalist who had recently become a venture capitalist, to invest in...
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The One Good Thing About Cyberattacks
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A Peek at Google's M&a Ambitions
Don Harrison became Google's head of mergers and acquisitions about a year ago.
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Japan: A Haven For Humanoid Robots
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The Big Data Employment Boom
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Zeroing In on nbreakable Computer Security
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Big Data Could Generate Millions of New Jobs
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Nate Silver: What Big Data Can't Predict
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The Great Surveillance Boom
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Big Tech Is Struggling With Old Age
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