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Quoted: zooming in on Japan amid Olympus scandal

"It will be hard to prove to foreign investors that Olympus is the only one." — Tsutomu Yamada, a market analyst at Kabu.com Securities in Tokyo, on the Olympus financial scandal. The 92-year-old Japanese maker of cameras and medical Read More →

As Adobe dumps Flash for mobile, and 750 jobs, investors dump shares

Adobe's stock is taking a big hit today on the heels of two big pieces of news: It will stop developing Flash for mobile devices, it announced this morning. And it is getting rid of about Read More →

Cisco earnings: Can it keep up positive momentum?

Can Cisco keep its positive momentum going? The San Jose-based networking company, which is scheduled to release its earnings report after the markets close, is seeing its shares fall about 2.5 percent to $17.85 amid a broader market Read More →

Quoted: Supreme Court justice on GPS tracking

"If you win this case, then there is nothing to prevent the police or the government from monitoring 24 hours a day the public movement of every citizen of the United States." — Justice Stephen Breyer to Michael Dreeben, Read More →

Off topic: Shooting books, Levittown, Pompeii, Altoid art, font from leg hair

Can books stop bullets? If you're a fan of books, one literary magazine's promotional video might be a bit unsettling. The BBC takes a look at the evolution of Levittown, Pa., America's first suburb, which turns Read More →

Potential webOS, Yahoo suitors might be after one thing: patents

A couple of interesting what-ifs involving some of Silicon Valley's biggest companies, and surprise, surprise, they involve patents: • Reuters reports that HP is considering selling webOS, the mobile operating system it acquired as part of its Read More →

Government 2.0: voting by iPad and more

Today's election day in some parts of the country. Oregon's elections are attracting attention not only because that state's voters will decide on a replacement for a legislator who resigned because of a sex scandal, but also because Read More →

Quoted: Zuckerberg’s take/Zuckerberg takes on Google+

"Google, I think, in some ways, is more competitive and certainly is trying to build their own little version of Facebook." — When asked about Facebook's big competitors during an interview with Charlie Rose on PBS Monday night, CEO Mark Zuckerberg Read More →

Off topic: Letter from Madonna, addressing poor penmanship, voice-over history, world literature

"I was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan where I began my career in petulance and precociousness." Thus begins the letter that got Madonna her first movie role. I almost missed this one but am grateful to Neatorama Read More →
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