This High-Tech Backpack Is Mapping the Remotest Corners for Google (Video)

Google uses a 42-pound backpack with 15 cameras to capture areas its picture-taking cars can’t go.
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Mobile and Global: 10 Minutes With eBay CEO John Donahoe

The CEO talks about two key points of focus for the e-commerce company.
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Movile’s Bloisi Says Wi-Fi and Cheaper Prices Are Key for Smartphone Penetration in Latin America

The founder and CEO of Brazil’s largest mobile services company thinks the next four years will see a boom in the important region.
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Chinese Tech Titans Eye Brazil

Big Chinese consumer-technology companies are dominant at home, but they have struggled overseas. Now, in an attempt to change that, they are charging into Brazil and other emerging markets.

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Heating Up: Latin American Apps Revealing a Change in the Mobile Tech Tides

The mobile tech scene in Brazil is getting hot.

Intel Results Give Strongest Look Yet at the State of PC Sales

We already know that PC sales are weakening. The question is how weak are they? Intel’s results will tell the tale, good or bad.
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AMD Warns of 11 Percent Drop in Sales on Weak PC Results in Europe, China

Weak sales where? Everywhere AMD’s main rival Intel always says is so strong?
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Apple’s New iPad Hits 30 More Countries This Weekend

Whatever supply constraints Apple once faced with the new iPad, it appears to have resolved them. The company will launch the device in an additional 30 countries including Brazil, Argentina, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Taiwan. Noticeably absent from this latest rollout list: China. With the addition of those nations, the total number of countries in which the new iPad is available for purchase will be almost 90.

Updated S-1: Facebook’s Yearly Revenue Growth Up 45 Percent, But Down Six Percent From Last Quarter

Will the new results cause investors to worry?
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Brazil’s Eike Batista Signs Deal With IBM

Brazilian billionaire businessman Eike Batista on Wednesday unveiled the latest in a series of high-profile partnerships, bringing U.S. technology behemoth International Business Machines Corp. into his burgeoning industrial empire.

LinkedIn Reaches 100 Million Users