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U.S. universities lead in innovation, Asia a rising power

September 16, 2015 creative chicago, close-ties, create-some, executive-briefing, massachusetts, ranked-second, router, world

By Ben Hirschler LONDON (Reuters) – U.S. universities lead the world in scientific innovation but face strong competition from Asian rivals with close ties to industry, according to a detailed analysis of academic papers and patent filings

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Twitter tries to spur growth with shopping and political donations

September 16, 2015 creative accept-online, build-profit, chicago, close-ties, file, massachusetts, ranked-second, world

Twitter Inc's plans to let users buy goods and make political donations through tweets offer a path to reach new customers and build profit at a time the company has struggled to increase its audience. On Tuesday, Twitter announced it has partnered with mobile payment company Square Inc to accept online donations for U.S. political campaigns

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Guyana-Venezuela border spat takes to Google Maps

September 16, 2015 publisher accept-online, build-profit, close-ties, file, girish-gupta, google-maps, heart, known-locally, massachusetts, names-on-google, oil-discovery, region-claimed, south-america, sparsely, the-former

By Girish Gupta CARACAS (Reuters) – A centuries-old territorial dispute in South America has taken a technological turn as anglophone Guyana decries Google Maps’ Spanish-language labeling of street names in a region claimed by neighboring Venezuela.

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Google, Facebook join Red Cross to find thousands missing after Nepal quake

April 27, 2015 admin boyfriend, facebook, families, massachusetts, nepal, news, safety-check, their-friends, thomson, thomson-reuters

By Nita Bhalla and Joseph D’Urso NEW DELHI/LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – German development worker Caroline Siebald and her boyfriend Charles Gertler, an American glaciologist, were on a rafting trip in Nepal when the earthquake struck and initially panicked about how to let their families know they were safe. After about 30 attempts, Gertler, 25, managed to get a phone call through to his mother in Massachusetts in the United States, and she registered them as safe on Facebook’s “Safety Check”.