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Top Stories of the Day // February 15, 2013

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Today's Top Stories // Feb 15, 2013

Meteor Crash Reportedly Injured Over 100 People In Russia

Fragments of a meteor reportedly crash landed in Russia, causing an explosion that injured over 100 people. Amateur video of the meteor streaking across the sky... read more

Zuckerberg Now Owns 29.3 Percent Of Facebook, Representing $18 Billion

Facebook announced in an SEC filing that founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg now owns 29.3 percent of Facebook shares (NASDAQ:FB), up from a 28.2 percent stake on... read more

The Fall TV Lineup May Include Apple Dominating Gaming

What I'm about to say is undoubtedly going to piss some of you off. And that's fine. Because in a few years, I'll be right and you'll look silly.... read more

Meteor Video Footage Goes Large On YouTube, Thanks To Bad Russian Drivers, Corruption And The Use Of Dash Cams

Today's incident involving a falling meteor in the Chelyabinsk region of Russia has resulted in an estimated 500 injuries, and while people are scrambling to... read more

Amazon Takes Redshift, Its Cloud-Based Data Warehouse Killer, Global

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Google Rated The Best Place To Intern In 2013, Followed By Qualcomm, Microsoft, Intel And Cisco

For student jobseekers, in these challenging economic conditions, internships still rank as one of the best ways to prevent yourself from joining the growing... read more

Peak Gmail: Too Many Messages, Not Enough Space, And, Finally, A Way Out

I've been receiving ominous warnings in my Gmail inbox for months now: "You are almost out of space for your Gmail account. Once you run out of space, you will... read more

Heroku Admits To Performance Degradation Over The Past 3 Years After Criticism From Rap Genius

Heroku, the popular cloud application platform, may not be as fast today as it was three years ago. Yesterday, Rap Genius' James Somers , posted a widely read... read more

Obama's Quotable Google+ Hangout: Zuckerberg, Drones And Being 'Chill'

President Obama just concluded a group interview with a handful of bloggers on Google+. The 40-minute follow-up to the State of the Union covered a broad range... read more

Berlusconi Outed As Investor In Square Clone Payleven While Rocket Internet's Zappos Clone Zalando Hits Breakeven

A double-dose of details today about the normally secretive e-commerce startups incubated by the Samwer bothers-backed Rocket Internet. Silvio Berlusconi was... read more

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