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03 February 2012

03 February 2012, 01:10

Falling bricks

The Brick Industry Association, a Virginia-based industry group, has launched a campaign to highlight the virtues of brick, from the green aspect of being able to recycle it to its ability to stand up to fire.

02 February 2012, 15:00

Facebook files for highly anticipated IPO

There were some surprises, too, such as the fact that advertising accounted for about 85 percent of the revenue and that Facebook relies on one big customer, social games maker Zynga Inc. of San Francisco, for about 12 percent of its income.

29 January 2012, 15:00

LinkedIn faces challenges by Facebook apps

Rather than starting from scratch, independent software developers are trying to add a professional layer to Facebook - and are hoping that users will accept a less-than-complete separation of the professional and the personal.

27 January 2012, 15:00

Macworld vendors have apps worth a look

Hundreds of vendors clamored for their attention using a variety of techniques, from good old-fashioned product giveaways to attractive young people on trampolines demonstrating new sport headphones as they did backflips.

23 January 2012, 15:00

Goodbye to All That

The Jewish community in Caracas has long been lively, prosperous, tight-knit, and devoted to the country that accepted so many of them as refugees during and after World War II. At its height, it numbered as many as 40,000 people.

21 January 2012, 00:37

This Week's Top News Stories on YouTube-- Dramatic rescue in Italy, protests in Tunisia, and uneasy truce forms in Zabadani, Syria

Everyday on the CitizenTube Channel (and @CitizenTube on Twitter), along with our curation partners @storyful, we look at how the top news stories are covered on YouTube. Every week we'll...

19 January 2012, 19:07

The future is black

STAB a finger at the middle of a map of India and you will hit Nagpur. Some 20 miles (32 kilometres) north-west of the city is a sloping tunnel bored into the rock. Ride two miles down into the gloom...

17 January 2012, 15:00

Who Shall Live

When Varian Fry, an American journalist, went to Europe in 1941 on behalf of the Emergency Rescue Committee, he went with a mission: to save a group of European artists and intellectuals from the Nazis.

15 January 2012, 21:25

The Unlearned Lesson of the Titanic

Since that fateful night of April 1912, what have we done in the way of reform that will go toward averting another such disaster?

15 January 2012, 15:00

Tim Ferriss has strong likes: knives, kettlebells

If anyone could resist skipping ahead, though, it is Ferriss himself, a 34-year-old author, investor, self-help guru and human guinea pig. (Oh, my meth lab? he jokingly sidestepped when questioned.) To his left was his kitchen...

13 January 2012, 19:40

This Week's Top News Stories on YouTube-- Mitt Romney claims victory in New Hampshire, award-winning French journalist is killed in Syria, and a national strike paralyses Nigeria

Everyday on the CitizenTube Channel (and @CitizenTube on Twitter), along with our curation partners @storyful, we look at how the top news stories are covered on YouTube. Every week we'll...

11 January 2012, 20:50