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Pocket wants to help you see the best of the web Verge Video, theverge.com

Pocket is a web tool that acts like a save button for the Internet. The San Francisco based start-up has garnered 17 million users worldwide. Now it just has to figure out how to grow that product into a profitable business.

Get Pocket in your pocket.

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Are You Saving Enough Money? Experts Provide Answers lifehack.org

How many months of savings should you have? What is the average savings for everyone else? Experts have the answers on saving enough money.

How much should you be saving?

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Chrysler Recalls Jeep SUVs for Ignition Switches nbcnews.com

Chrysler is recall­ing up to 792,300 older Jeep SUVs world­wide because the igni­tion switch­es could cause engine stalling. Tues­day's recall cov­ers 2005-2007 Grand Chero­kees and 2006-2007 Com­man­ders. Chrysler says it's not sure exact­ly how…

Jeep ignition switch recall.

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Fruit recall at Walmart, Costco By Jacque Wilson, CNN, cnn.com

If you've picked up fruit at Cost­co, Trad­er Joe's, Kroger or Wal­mart stores recent­ly, keep read­ing.

Wawona Pack­ing Co. is vol­un­tar­i­ly recall­ing peach­es, nec­tarines, plums and plu­ots that were packed at its Cut­ler, Cal­i­for­nia,…

Costco, Kroger, Wal-Mart, Trader Joe's fruit recall.

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Pictures of the Week 4.4.14 flipboard.com

So you say you come from a tough neighborhood?

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After decades of exodus, companies returning production to the U.S. By Don Lee, latimes.com

In 2001, Gen­er­ac Power Sys­tems joined the wave of Amer­i­can com­pa­nies shift­ing pro­duc­tion to China. The move wiped out 400 jobs in south­east Wis­con­sin, but few could argue with man­age­ment's logic: Chi­nese com­pa­nies were offer­ing …

Manufacturing coming back to the US. I guess I won't need to learn to speak Cantonese now.

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Pencils of Promise pencilsofpromise.org

Pencils of Promise. Building Schools in Developing Nations

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Apple buys tech that could take Siri offline Sharif Sakr, engadget.com

Apple has sort-of-confirmed that it recent­ly snapped up anoth­er small com­pa­ny, called Novau­ris. The firm spe­cial­izes in speech recog­ni­tion and has his­tor­i­cal ties to the core tech­nol­o­gy and patents under­pin­ning Siri.…

Apple buys tech that could take Siri offline.

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Photographer Documents State of the Art Medical Devices that Save Lives Patricia Ramos, exposureguide.com

Reiner Riedler has chosen quite an unusual subject, that when you think of it, should be a topic of interest for most of us. After all, these machines that Riedler chose to shoot are lifesavers. Riedler has spent a year photographing 50…

Some cool pictures of medical devices. #photography

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With Chromebooks A Success, Google Adds Focus On Chromeboxes Frederic Lardinois, techcrunch.com

When you think ChromeOS, chances are the first thing that comes to mind are Chrome­books. Since 2012, though, Google and its hard­ware part­ners have also been qui­et­ly sell­ing its Chrome­box­es, the desk­top equiv­a­lents of the ChromeOS lap­to…

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iOS Dominates Enterprise Market with 73% of Mobile Device Activations by Kelly Hodgkins, macrumors.com

iOS devices account­ed for 73 per­cent of all enter­prise mobile device acti­va­tions and grabbed the top ten spots for most pop­u­lar devices in the fourth quar­ter of 2013, reports Good Tech­nol­o­gy in its Mobil­i­ty Index Report for Q4…

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Valve posts entirety of Steam Dev Days to YouTube, explaining its console and VR strategy By Sean Hollister, theverge.com

Valve is a noto­ri­ous­ly pri­vate game pub­lish­er, and in Jan­u­ary it host­ed a pri­vate event. At Steam Dev Days, the com­pa­ny gath­ered devel­op­ers to talk about its strat­e­gy for the com­pa­ny's Linux-based Steam Machine game con­soles,…

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The Lego Movie Clobbers Clooney and Everyone Else at Weekend Box Office by Katey Rich, vanityfair.com

Everything Is Awesome

If you’re an adult who has seen The Lego Movie, you prob­a­bly spent a lot of time this week­end watch­ing peo­ple roll their eyes at the ads and swear­ing to them, “No, seri­ous­ly, it’s real­ly good!” Trust me, I’v…

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Carl Icahn folds on Apple buyback proxy fight By Philip Elmer-DeWitt, cnn.com

On Mon­day, four and a half months after Carl Icahn tweet­ed that he had "pushed hard" for Apple (AAPL) CEO Tim Cook to use his com­pa­ny's entire cash hold­ings to buy its own "extreme­ly under­priced" shares, Wall Street's most feared and admire…