May 18, 2013 at 1:22 PM ET Waiting hours for a cellphone to charge may become a thing of the past, thanks to an 18-year-old high-school student's invention. She won a $50,000 prize Friday at an international science fair for creating an energy storage device that can be fully juiced in 20 to 30 seconds.

在每週一次的「創業 CEO」系列，我們討論一個創業者如何教會自己成為一位偉大的 CEO，因為歷史上最偉大的創業公司，往往都是由這樣的人在領導。 歡迎來到 Good Strategy Bad Strategy 線上讀書會 #3，今天我們要討論第三章 Bad Strategy 與第四章 Why So Much Bad Strategy。 看穿壞策略 ...

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AT&T becomes the latest U.S. carrier to offer a promotion on Apple's latest iPhone 5 flagship. AT&T Mobility is now running a trade-in promotion for existing customers who own the iPhone 4S. According to the trade-in offer, AT&T customers with the iPhone 4S can trade in their phone and get a free 16 GB iPhone 5 with a two-year contract.

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Here at Atlassian, we recently went through an exercise to consolidate the authentication and identity management of our key support systems. As we have grown, we have seen a number of account silos materialize across our system landscape.

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Economists have estimated that opening the world's borders to migration could double world GDP. To get the gist of that number, imagine that your boss walked into your office tomorrow and said, "we're doubling your salary"-and the same thing happened to everyone else, too. What would we a...

After nearly eight years of being on the air, the lovable paper-pushers of The Office will say goodbye in NBC's two-hour series finale tonight, May 16. Throughout the show's nine seasons, we've seen familiar faces come in and out of Scranton, Pennsylvania. From Will Ferrell to Amy Adams, here are 10 of The Office's most memorable guest stars.

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The Indian cricket board o Thursday suspended three Rajasthan Royal cricketers S. Sreesanth, Ankeet Chavan and Ajit Chandila, who were arrested on charges of spot-fixing in the Indian Premier League (IPL). The three cricketers were arrested in Mumbai by the Delhi Police's special cell late Wednesday night after the Rajasthan Royals' game with Mumbai Indians at the Wankhede stadium there.

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Cricketer S Sreesanth and two other players of Rajasthan Royals have been arrested by Delhi Police on charges of spot fixing in a T20 League match, Press Trust of India reported this morning.

Not very often I meet people who challenge themselves. In my town, it's a norm for a son to join his family business. Why not? No rent, no boring office routine and a secure source of income, close to your family and friends.

Larry Page stopped speaking at public events from June to October 2012. When Google CEO Larry Page stopped talking at events last summer, some company watchers feared the worst. But Page revealed on Tuesday that he's perfectly healthy, and his raspy voice is due to vocal cord paralysis.

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(CNN) -- Hey kids! Forget trying to become a doctor or rapper or a football star, not to mention all the teasing you may get in school for being a nerd -- computers are where it's at.

A team of scientists at the Boston Children's Hospital have invented what is being considered one the greatest medical breakthroughs in recent years. They have designed a microparticle that can be injected into a person's bloodstream that can quickly oxygenate their blood.

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Peter Thiel, famous for being Facebook's first investor and the co-founder and former CEO at PayPal, is giving 20 teenagers $100,000 to drop out of college. Here's the catch: They have to start a company. During the two-year program, fellows cannot work or be enrolled in school.

As a Google Glass owner, I can immediately see how it will be incredibly useful for so many kinds of people. Doctors, mechanical engineers, any sort of field worker.

In the startup world, ping pong tables and free swag have become the status quo. But these kinds of lush office accoutrements are not always feasible on a startup budget. Still, it's important for your workspace or office to reflect your company culture. The question is, how do you make it work at a reasonable price?

Consumer Reports has fallen in love with the Tesla Model S. On its scale of one to 100, the $70,000+ electric car scored a 99, tied with the highest rating the highly regarded publication has ever awarded to any car. It's an enormous victory for Elon Musk's growing electric car company, which showed its first profit last quarter.

DECODED | Ilya Pozin The Alternative Board, a peer coaching network for business owners, surveyed 300 of its members. Here's what's keeping them awake at night. shutterstock images Tweet There are a lot of ways for a fledgling company to falter in its early days. Too many unique obstacles to name, I'd wager.

AOL had some positives in its first quarter earnings report. Total revenue for the company was up two percent compared to last year, hitting $538 million. Ad sales were also up nine percent, from $330 million to $359 million.

Back in January I wrote about how LinkedIn was the patron saint of the also-ran social network with slower growth and fewer users, but hopefully a greater value proposition for each of them. I mentioned Path, Nextdoor, and Foursquare as examples, but I missed a big one: Klout.

As another eager batch of new graduates emerge from college this Spring, many begin pounding the pavement in search of employment opportunities. Sadly, for many, the path to success has become far more crowded and opportunities more rare.

Groupon's quarterly results are out, and they're surprisingly good-$601.4 million in revenue compared to expectations of $588.9 million, and net operating income up $34 million compared to last quarter. In its release, Groupon highlighted what seems to be the company's new strength: mobile. "We had record mobile performance as 45% of our North American transactions...

Facebook is in the final stages of negotiation with crowd-sourced traffic and navigation app maker Waze for an Instagram-sized acquisition of the Israeli company, reports local business publication Calcalist.

Video on msnbc.com: Ariel Castro's mother reacted to the news by asking the women who were abducted to forgive her for all of the pain they suffered. Castro's two brothers also appeared in court Thursday on unrelated charges and were later released. NBC's Ron Allen reports

Pinterest engineers Yashwanth Nelapati and Marty Weiner recently shared some insights and lessons learned while developing and scaling the company. Pinterest is a site for collecting and sharing photos of interesting objects around the web. In a little over three years, Pinterest has grown from zero page views a day to billions per month.

With more than 700 million users Yahoo has a good start, but getting the next billion users will be a challenge. (Credit: Dan Farber) NEW YORK--Marissa Mayer has clear vision of what a moonshot -- an epic accomplishment -- would be for Yahoo. She wants Yahoo persistent on every smartphone, tablet and PC for every Internet user.

Google is set to debut a new interface for its Maps app, according to a report. Google Operating System , a blog that provides unofficial news about the search giant, said the update will get rid of Maps' current sidebar, and will display location information in pop-ups that appear on top of a full-screen map.

A small leak suddenly sent water pouring into the Apple Store on Fifth Avenue and 59th Street in Manhattan this morning. "I was down there at 5:45am because I had trouble backing up my computer and everyone started yelling," customer Errol Rappaport, 68, told The Post.

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I recently read an article in Kafila written by some students from St. Stephen's College in Delhi that really made me think. To quickly summarise, the piece criticised the draconian views of the Principal of St. Stephen's College regarding curfews on women's dormitories and his stymying of his students' democratic ideals of discussion, protest, and open criticism.

A few days ago on reddit a user posted a picture and asked a simple request. "can someone photoshop the sun between my fingers." Well that unleashed a floodgate of responses and now you have the latest internet sensation. Enjoy htese laudable efforts to do a simple thing.

Google's former motto of Do No Evil has taken on a twist. According to a post on HuffingtonPost, it seems Google has filed a patent that would spy on users' email and look for 'problematic/controversial' phrases. Basically these are all those things that you shouldn't be writing and runs foul of company policies and or laws of the land.

Any soldier has to be a tough guy just to fight. But then there are the guys who take it one step further. Here are 10 of the baddest asses in armies full of badasses. Brian Chontosh, currently serving in the Marines, got the Navy Cross in 2003, which is hardcore, but not quite hardcore enough to make a top 10 list.

Many powerful photographs have been made in the aftermath of the devastating collapse of a garment factory on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh. But one photo, by Bangladeshi photographer Taslima Akhter, has emerged as the most heart wrenching, capturing an entire country's grief in a single image.

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Users of iPad and Android tablets might not have noticed, but a lot of them are "frustrated" because they "can't type, they can't create documents, they don't have [ Microsoft] Office there."

Critics poke fun at Google Glass comparing it to the pocket protector, Bluetooth and Segways Google defends Glass saying critics are just not ready for change By Nina Golgowski PUBLISHED: 22:30 EST, 2 May 2013 | UPDATED: 05:13 EST, 3 May 2013 It's a computer strapped to a user's face at all times while called revolutionary and technologically savvy by its creators.

Yesterday Facebook announced that 1.1 billion people use the site every month. But where do others stand? The results are surprising. For all of Instagram's popularity, Snapchat users upload 110 million more photos per day. Yahoo Mail is more popular than Twitter. And even MySpace is as popular as Spotify.

Tech entrepreneurs can find plenty of resources for raising funds from investors online. Notable "equity crowdfunding" sites like MicroVenture Marketplace, SeedInvest and SecondMarket focus on the makers of apps and hardware. But what about businesses that make everything you'd find at a grocery or convenience store?

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I was wrong. One year ago I left the internet. I thought it was making me unproductive. I thought it lacked meaning. I thought it was "corrupting my soul." It's a been a year now since I "surfed the web" or "checked my email" or "liked" anything with a figurative rather than literal thumbs up.

So you've finally finished developing your product or service, flushed our your business model, and you're ready to dive head first into your new business venture - but how the heck do you raise enough capital to get started? Taking venture capital is one way to secure the funds necessary for starting your business.

Apple has sold some 140 million iPads to date - most of them to consumers frustrated by their lack of physical keyboards and full-featured productivity suites. This, according to Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates who in a wide-ranging interview with CNBC claimed that current tablets suffer from a lack of PC features - features that Microsoft is delivering to them with Surface and Windows 8.

Read enough stories about security vulnerabilities in industrial control systems and the statistics in them start to blur. Tens of thousands of control systems connected to the internet, dozens of hardcoded passwords that can't be changed, untold numbers of backdoors embedded in systems by vendors that hackers can use to remotely control them - these are just a sampling of the problems uncovered by researchers in the last three years.

CHANDIGARH: Himachal Pradesh-based Theon Pharmaceuticals Ltd, owned by railway minister Pawan Kumar Bansal's wife, Madhu, and sons, Amit and Manish, saw its turnover rise from zero to Rs 152 crore - period that also saw Bansal's political graph soaring.

At its Adobe MAX creativity conference in Los Angeles on Monday, Adobe announced the next generation of its popular creativity suite, rebranding it Creative Cloud and announcing a range of connectivity and functionality improvements.

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The "Pepsi Challenge" was a legendary marketing promotion in which regular people blind taste test one cup filled with Pepsi and another with Coca Cola. Upon tasting the colas, drinkers are asked which they prefer. Not surprisingly, every Pepsi Challenge concluded that more than 50% of tasters prefer Pepsi over Coke.

For America to maintain its fragile role as the most innovative nation on earth, it must perpetually attract the world's best and brightest. There will always be trailblazing engineers that stay in their home country, leaving the United States one notch below its potential.

Here's an interesting addition to the "brands make products" trend. Audi, with help from DDB Spain is out with a mobile Android app called Start-Stop that mimics one of the features in new Audi vehicles; smart technology turns off the engine when not in use (at a stop light, etc.)

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In late 2002, Reid recruits a team of old colleagues from SocialNet and PayPal to work on a new idea. Six months later, LinkedIn launches. Growth is slow at first-as few as 20 signups on some days-but, by the fall, it shows enough promise to attract an investment from Sequoia Capital.

Facebook has dominated the social media grid for years with no real competitor insight....until now. With every great concept comes great competition; it all comes down to the decisions of the board and the vision of the company that controls whether the leading company should stay on top or fall.

You've probably already heard this, the news has been out since it was leaked over the weekend. My understanding is that Facebook and Google+ will continue to be separate entities just like they are now for several months, but over time groups of users will be transferred over to the new combined service until everyone...

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A fact - It takes more love to share the pillion seat, than to share the bed. [BEST ONE] A good long ride can clear your mind, restore your faith, and use up a lot of fuel. Advice is a form of nostalgia. Got a $5 head? Get a $5 helmet.

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Sites like Kickstarter have been used to crowdfund a wide range of projects, but I don't think they've ever done what Synergist is attempting today - they've never crowdfunded themselves. The site was founded by 17-year-old Jared Kleinert, who described Synergist as a mix of cr..

It's only been about six hours since our Disrupt NY Hackathon officially began, and we're starting to see our intrepid hackers hit their stride. Granted, some of them are a little farther along than others -- Darrell found one guy who made an Arduino-powered robot for physically testing..