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Chinese iPad Workers Get Third Raise Since 2010Workers at Apple‘s Foxconn factories in China, the subjects of recent controversy, have received their third raise since 2010. The raise comes as Apple is under fire for allegedly poor conditions at the Chinese manufacturing plants, which produce components for Apple devices. However, recen... Pinwheel Pins Your Notes to the World MapFlickr and Hunch co-founder Caterina Fake unveiled her latest project on Friday, a startup called Pinwheel that lets users pin their notes to the world map. “The notes can be public or private, shared with an individual, a group or everyone,” Fake explained on her blog. “They c... 3D Printer Brings Internet Memes Into the Real World [PICS]1. Sad Keanu Now you can physically place poor, sad Keanu anywhere you want. You can put him on your cubicle at work or your piano at home, apparently. Click here to view this gallery.Calling all nerds! Pop quiz: What’s better than a meme? A meme produced by ... Web App Analyzes Tweets in Real Time for a Record of Historic EventsIf you’ve tweeted a lot about the Occupy movement, the Syrian Protests or the Egyptian Revolution, Twitris may have considered what you said and recorded it. Dr. Amit P. Sheth, director of the Kno.e.sis Center in Dayton, Ohio, developed the idea for Twitter research when he was monitoring w... LLC vs. S Corp: Which Is Right for Your Startup?Choosing the right business structure can be a daunting task for the small business owner or entrepreneur. You may have heard that the traditional C Corporation is overkill for most small businesses, and results in higher overall tax payments through something known as double taxation. But if the... Hands on With Messages for OS X Mountain LionApple may have killed off iChat with Thursday’s announcement of OS X Mountain Lion, but the company replaced it with something even better: Messages. Currently available in beta for OS X Lion users, Messages takes the best parts of iChat and adds in support for iMessage, the instant-messagi... Gnip Authorized to Sell Access to Historical Tweets [VIDEO]Twitter is about the here-and-now, but data aggregator Gnip thinks users might be interested in the past, too. Gnip announced on Tuesday it will be the first company to offer a 30-day history of tweets. Want to see who searched for a particular topic two weeks ago? Or, what topic was trendi... Apple vs. Google: Who Owns Slide-to-Unlock on Phones?Both iPhones and Android devices unlock in the same way: with the user sliding his or her finger along part of the screen. That simple function has prompted a huge amount of legal wrangling, with both Apple and Google (by proxy of its recent acquisition, Motorola) scoring victories over the owner... NFL Player Promoters Will Help NFL Dominate Social MediaA select group of college students could get digitally cozier with their favorite NFL players. United Way is looking for social media interns to promote the philanthropy efforts of the 32 NFL teams and each team’s United Way spokesperson to help the the organizations dominate social media.... Yelp Set to Go Public March 2 in $100 Million IPO [REPORT]Yelp‘s $100 million IPO is set for March 2, according to a report. Dow Jones is reporting the company plans to sell 7.15 million shares to the public at $12 to $14 each. That means the company’s market cap could hit $838.6 million in the high end, which is lower than the $1.5 billion ... |