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| Trip Tern Will Create Your Travel Itinerary | | Thursday, January 10, 2013 10:59 PM | Veena Bissram |
| Trip Tern's goal is to make travel planning easier by automatically creating an itinerary that includes information about your city, hotel and interests.
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| This Picture Shows Everything Wrong With 'Booth Babes' at CES | | Thursday, January 10, 2013 7:45 PM | Chris Taylor |
| 'Booth babes' have been one of the more unfortunate features of tech trade shows for years. Women (we've never seen any male booth babes) chosen for their looks are paid to hang around a company's booth and attract the mostly male, mostly older attendees. Sometimes the women are well paid, sometimes they get minimum wage, but their relationship to the product in question is usually gossamer-thin.
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| Europe Will Likely Force Google to Change Search Practices | | Thursday, January 10, 2013 7:41 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| Google may have gotten off with a slap on the wrist in the United States for its search practices, but it doesn't look like it will get off so easily in Europe. Joaquín Almunia, the European Union's competition chief, told the Financial Times Thursday he believes European regulators will demand Google change the way its own products are displayed in search or else face hefty fines for "diverting traffic" away from competitors' products.
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| Why Are People Still Buying CDs? | | Thursday, January 10, 2013 5:08 PM | Todd Wasserman |
| Amazon announced AutoRip on Thursday, a free service that gives consumers a cloud-based backup for every CD they've bought from the company since 1998. For Amazon, it's another move towards ensuring that consumers consider the company their primary stream of content, whatever the format.
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| Why Amazon Won't Give You Free Digital Copies of Your Movies and Books | | Thursday, January 10, 2013 4:15 PM | Lauren Indvik |
| Amazon announced Thursday morning that any customer who purchases a CD will receive a free digital copy of that album. The offer is valid not only on present and future purchases, but on any one of 50,000 CDs purchased from the retailer since 1998. Could the same offer soon be extended to movies and books? The answer, unfortunately, is probably not. The first issue is cost.
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| Forrst Has Been Acquired For the Second Time in One Year | | Thursday, January 10, 2013 4:04 PM | Seth Fiegerman |
| It's tough enough for a startup to get acquired once, but one company has just been acquired for the second time in a year. Forrst, an online community for designers and developers, has been acquired by interactive design firm Zurb for an undisclosed sum, Zurb announced Thursday. Forrst had previously been acquired by another design community called Colourlovers in March, 2012.
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| How to Knock Your Next Interview Out of the Park | | Thursday, January 10, 2013 2:20 PM | The Daily Muse |
| You already know the interview essentials, but you’ll need to go beyond the basics to really stand out for the job. Here are four ways to do it.
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| The Mashable Online Career Expo Is Coming to a City Near You | | Thursday, January 10, 2013 1:25 PM | Sheffie Elencweig |
| Are you looking to make your next great career move in 2013? Mashable is here to help and proud to announce its 2013 Online Career Expos, a series of nationwide events that will connect you with leading employers in live, engaging conversations.
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| Digg Talks Monetization, Unveils New Ad Product | | Thursday, January 10, 2013 12:41 PM | Lauren Indvik |
| Digg's new owners say they're only "about 1% done" building out their vision for the revamped content discovery application, but that doesn't mean they're going to put off monetization any longer.
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| Axe Body Spray Will Send 22 People to Space | | Thursday, January 10, 2013 10:59 AM | Space.com |
| In a huge marketing stunt, men's personal care product company Axe has teamed up with famed moonwalker Buzz Aldrin to send 22 people into space.
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| Want to Buy a Boot/Ski Combo Device? Sorry, It's Actually a Hertz Ad | | Thursday, January 10, 2013 10:22 AM | Todd Wasserman |
| It sounds like a great idea: A boot with retractable skis. It saves a lot of room in the car and takes less time to get on and off the slopes. Too bad the product — SkiBrogues — is a fake. The concept is actually an ad for Hertz. If you click through to SkiBrogues' official-looking site, there's a Hertz banner ad showing weekly rental rates for ski destinations.
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| Nokia Sold 4.4 Million Lumia Phones in Q4 | | Thursday, January 10, 2013 9:44 AM | Seth Fiegerman |
| Don't count the Nokia Lumia out just yet. Nokia announced Thursday that it sold 4.4 million Lumia smartphones in the December quarter, more than it sold in each of the three previous quarters and nearly twice the number sold in the September quarter. A year ago, Nokia revealed that it had sold more than 1 million Lumias since the line of smartphones launched.
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| Kaley Cuoco Revealed as William Shatner's Daughter in Priceline Ad | | Thursday, January 10, 2013 9:15 AM | Todd Wasserman |
| The daughter of Priceline's Negotiator, a.k.a. William Shatner, is none other than Big Bang Theory's Kaley Cuoco. Who knew? In the ad above, Cuoco is given over, Kill Bill-style, to a martial artist master to learn the craft of negotiating. But things changed a lot over the 20 years Cuoco spent in the monastery.
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