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		<title>Google crunches data on munching snacks in the office</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Sep 2013 14:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cecilia Kang</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Last year Google had an M&#38;M problem. So, as it does with most dilemmas, the Internet giant put its data wizards into action. Employees were eating too much of the free candy and that, the firm surmised, might hinder efforts to keep them healthy and happy. So in what could be called Project M&#38;M, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can Amazon&#8217;s Bezos save the newspaper business?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Aug 2013 12:48:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matea Gold  and Cecilia Kang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amazon.com founder Jeffrey Bezos&#8217; purchase of The Washington Post promises not just an ownership change for the 135-year-old institution but a potential transformation of the fusty mechanics of the newspaper business. It remains to be seen whether the experiences of an Internet behemoth can be successfully applied to a legacy newspaper &#8212; and whether Amazon-style [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. tech giants urge NSA transparency</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2013 04:16:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Timberg  and Cecilia Kang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Technology companies stung by the controversy over the National Security Agency's sweeping Internet surveillance program are calling on U.S. officials to ease the secrecy surrounding national security investigations and lift long-standing gag orders covering the nature and extent of information collected about Internet users.]]></description>
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		<title>Jobs&#8217; role focus of Apple e-book trial</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jun 2013 15:03:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cecilia Kang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apple&#8217;s late founder, Steve Jobs, was a key figure Monday in the Justice Department&#8217;s suit against the Silicon Valley giant for allegedly leading an illegal scheme to raise the prices of e-books. But the focus on Jobs&#8217; role in conversations and deals made three years ago creates an odd dilemma for the court and was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Apple used &#8216;complex web&#8217; to avoid taxes, Senate inquiry finds</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 15:03:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cecilia Kang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apple used a &#8220;complex web&#8221; of offshore entities &#8212; with no employees or physical offices &#8212; that allowed it to pay little or no taxes on tens of billions it earned overseas, according to a Senate investigation unveiled Monday. Between 2009 and 2012, the company shielded at least &#036;74 billion in profits from U.S. tax [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will robots end up creating jobs or end them?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Mar 2013 15:01:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cecilia Kang</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[At Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a management robot is learning to run a factory and give orders to artificial coworkers, and a BakeBot robot is reading recipes, whipping together butter, sugar and flour and putting the cookie mix in the oven. At the University of California at Berkeley, a robot can do laundry and then [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cheap 3-D printers to transform our lives</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2013 00:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cecilia Kang</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[FOCUS When Ford wants to try out a new transmission part, an engineer sends a digital blueprint of the component to a computer, and what happens next once seemed like the stuff of science fiction. Inside a device about the size of a microwave oven, a plastic, three-dimensional version of the component begins to take [...]]]></description>
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