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Apple is the most valuable technology company in the world (as of 2012), due to its array of desktop, laptop, and mobile products. Its 2007 introduction of the iPhone sparked a global boom in smartphones; its 2010 introduction of the iPad led to a revolution in the once-stagnant tablet space. Its iPhone design defined smartphone…

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Yahoo News is an aggregator of news from major media outlets, though it produces some original content of its own. Yahoo News is the web’s most popular news site, with more than 88 million unique visitors in the month of April 2011. Yahoo, the search engine, web portal, and parent of Yahoo News, is the…

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The Atlantic is an American magazine that features political and cultural commentary. It is published 10 times a year. The magazine was founded as The Atlantic Monthly in 1857 by a group of prominent writers including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. It was based in Boston until moving to Washington in…

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Quora is an online community that provides a forum for users to ask questions and provide answers. Quora was founded in 2009 by Charlie Cheever and Adam D’Angelo, who worked at Facebook before leaving to start the new company. At the launch of the company D’Angelo said “Our belief is that more than 90 percent…

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Futurity is a nonprofit news service that distributes articles about universities’ scientific research. The site was founded in 2009 by a consortium of research universities as a way to supplement dwindling coverage of science and health research. The group includes more than 50 universities from the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada. The site is…

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