November 18, 2011
Billions Lost by Olympus May Be Tied to Criminals
By HIROKO TABUCHI
Tomohiro Ohsumi/Bloomberg News
An advertisement for Olympus in Tokyo. Japanese officials said at least $4.9 billion in Olympus funds were missing.
Japanese officials say at least $4.9 billion is unaccounted for at Olympus and are looking into whether much of it went to companies with links to organized crime.
U.S. Military Goes Online to Rebut Extremists’ Messages
By THOM SHANKER and ERIC SCHMITT
A team at MacDill Air Force Base in Florida is scanning the Web to counter radical ideology and explain American actions in the Middle East and Central Asia.
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Manager Who Claimed to Own Facebook Shares Charged With Fraud
By KEVIN ROOSE
John A. Mattera, 50, a Florida-based investment manager, was arrested Thursday on charges of running an $11 million, two-year fraud that falsely promised investors access to coveted shares of Groupon, Facebook and other private companies.
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Seven Tips for Better Group Portraits
By ROY FURCHGOTT
The holiday season may get the whole family in one place at one time, but group portraits are still a challenge. The photojournalist and educator Andrew Boyd has a few tips.
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Google Opens a Digital Music Store
By BEN SISARIO
Google Music will sell individual tracks as well as full albums, letting customers store the files in "cloud" accounts. Customers will be allowed to share music by offering friends one free chance to listen to any purchased track.
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A Silicon Valley Dream Grows in Guatemala, Despite the Risks
By DAMIEN CAVE
Developers hope to turn a five- or six-block area in Guatemala City’s center into an entrepreneurial campus, and a residential outpost for the hip, savvy, successful and young.
Oregon Tests iPads as Aid to Disabled Voters
By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
In a primary election, workers took iPads to 89 voters with disabilities, who marked their ballots on-screen and printed them out to mail.
Bits Blog
Visa to Offer Mobile Payments in Developing Nations
By JENNA WORTHAM
Visa announced plans for a product aimed at letting cellphone users in less developed nations buy goods and pay bills using their phones. The service will be available through a simple application or text messaging,
Green Blog
A Phone App for Switching Out Your Light Bulbs
By JIM WITKIN
The E.P.A. sponsors a contest to find useful apps for the enormous amounts of environmental data that it collects and maintains.
Once Wary, Apple Warms Up to Business Market
By NICK WINGFIELD
Apple, long resolute in its catering to consumers, is suddenly finding corporations becoming big customers.
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Why solar panel prices are falling | marginalrevolution.com
The glut in solar panels has corrected and converted into overcapacity. - Damon Darlin
Metal Nearly as Light as Air | io9.com
Metal weighs less than one milligram per cubic centimeter. Made by a liquid photopolymer that hardens under UV radiation - Quentin Hardy
Yelp Files to Raise $100 Million in IPO | sec.gov
The S1. Total shares were not listed. First nine months of 2011 Yelp had $58 million revenues, net loss of $7.6 million. - Quentin Hardy
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Three new Kindle e-book readers from Amazon fall short of full-featured tablets, but they have much to offer at comparatively low prices.
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