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Technology: Money & Startups
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You can now get a taxi in the Big Apple using an app, and you'll soon be able to pay for your ride with a smartphone.
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There's a few things you absolutely don't want to do when you are pitching your company to potential investors, said Fred Wilson, founder of Union Square Ventures, Tuesday at the TechCrunch Disrupt Conference in New York City.
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One of the most difficult and expensive parts of launching an online business is implementing payment processing, but San-Francisco start-up Stripe is trying to fix that.
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No other network comes close to Twitter's speed. That's why the architecture of Twitter #Music will be even more useful when it is applied to television.
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Members of a new app-driven service can book a seat on any of 4,000 private jets that have extra room on their flights for about what it costs to fly first-class.
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Can Siri get your groceries or pick up your drycleaning? This new personal assistant app claims to know the secret to getting that stuff done -- a human!
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Why startup company Pebble isn't afraid of a little competition from tech titan Apple.
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The first "pay-by-tweet" service has been launched on Twitter, with American Express introducing a service on Monday that lets its cardholders buy products simply by sending a short message.
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Niklas Zennstrom, co-founder of Skype, believes the next hot tech business can come from anywhere around the globe.
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Does the social network MySpace ring a bell to you? Well, Myspace co-founder Tom Anderson just sounded the alarm.
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Microsoft bought start-up id8 Group R2 Studios as it looks to expand further in technology focused on the home and entertainment.
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Twitter users are getting emotional over the fiscal cliff.
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"I’m writing this today to let you know we’re listening and to commit to you that we will be doing more to answer your questions, fix any mistakes, and eliminate the confusion...," said Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom.
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Weeks before Instagram accepted an offer from Facebook, CEO Kevin Systrom had verbally agreed to sell his company to Twitter.
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Instagram's new privacy changes could have you starring in an advertisement without knowing it.
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Research In Motion has lost a contract dispute over the use of Nokia patents.
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Two weeks after his first post election meeting with CEOs, President Barack Obama is bringing another group of chief executives to the executive mansion, and this time it will include one of the highest ranking CEOs on Wall Street: Lloyd Blankfein of Goldman Sachs.
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Randi Zuckerberg's start-up reality TV show brought reality stardom to Silicon Valley and now Zuckerberg wants to bring that same fame to the Big Apple.
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Ericsson, the world's biggest telecom network equipment maker, said on Tuesday it had filed a suit in the United States against Samsung Electronics for patent infringement.
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The Winklevoss twins' are betting on a start-up that makes deal hunting a breeze for consumers.
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Email: tech@cnbc.com
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Working from Los Angeles, Boorstin is CNBC's media and entertainment reporter and author of CNBC.com's "Media Money" blog.
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Fortt is CNBC's technology correspondent, working from CNBC's Silicon Valley bureau and contributes to "Tech Check" on CNBC.com.
