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NASDAQ:AAPL – Apple Is The World’s Richest Company, Beats Exxon

Apple’s market capitalization now totals $337.17 billion.  Exxon Mobile’s market cap sits at $330.77 billion.  Looking at these two numbers tells us that Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) is now the world’s most valuable company.  This is the first time in history that Apple has achieved this level of value in market capitalization. Apple achieved this mark briefly […]

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Technology

How To Speed Up Firefox

If you’re anything like me, then you get annoyed at how slow Firefox can be.  And it’s not only when you try to open Firefox for the first time, it seems like Firefox gets slower the more webpages you visit the more the cache fills up with history. I’ve written before about how I tested […]

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Technology

Mashable.com Gets A PR8

I’m surprised I didn’t catch this earlier, and if someone from Mashable is reading this they are probably laughing at me.  But I just noticed that Mashable.com now has a PR8 (PageRank of 8). What’s PageRank you ask?  According to the meta data of the PageRank button on the Google toolbar, PageRank is “Google’s view […]

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People

Guy Fawkes Emulated in Anonymous Threat To Kill Facebook

In the wake of the threat to kill Facebook on November 5, 2011 by hacker collective Anonymous, the historical figure Guy Fawkes is starting to be looked at pretty intensely.  It is apparent that Anonymous is emulating the threat, or the date, of where Guy Fawkes threatened to take down Parliament on November 5th.  Ironically, […]

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People

Seth Godin’s Word of the Day: Excoriate

I love Seth Godin and look forward to reading his daily blog post each morning.  In fact, it’s always one of the first emails I open each day.  I’ve noticed, however, that in his blog posts, he will occasionally drop a seriously heavy word on his readers.  I have found myself, numerous times, having to […]

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Facebook

“Facebook Will Be Destroyed on November 5th,” Says Hacker Group Anonymous

A group of hackers who call themselves Anonymous have made a pretty serious threat.  And that is, on November 5, 2011 they are going to, and I quote “kill Facebook, the medium of communication [we] all so dearly adore.” Anonymous has been responsible for cyber-attacks in the past on organizations such as the Pentagon, News […]

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Entertainment iPad

Walmart Launches Vudu For iPad Today, But Not As An App

Walmart is launching video streaming service Vudu on the iPad today which will bring 20,000 instant movies and TV shows available for downloading and viewing.  What’s unique about Vudu launching on the iPad however is that it’s not launching as an app.  Instead, Vudu is launching as a mobile website that is compatible on the […]