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Q&A: Why 40% of us think we’re in the top 5%

Psychologist David Dunning explains that not only are we terrible at seeing how stupid we are, but we’re also too dumb to recognize genius right in front of us.
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Google taps in to mobile travel booking with Room 77 software licensing bid

Will Google’s next service focus on travel booking? Recent investments suggest so.
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Inside Facebook’s $2B bet on the next major computing platform

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s comments in a conference call provides a glimpse at the company’s long-term vision.
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Yahoo spinoff Hortonworks raises $100M to scale big data tech

BlackRock led the latest funding round for Hortonworks, whose Hadoop software has helped drive interest in big data.
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Bill Gates: Labor market unprepared for software bots revolution

Bill Gates says that governments worldwide are underestimating how many of our jobs will be taken by robots in the future.
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Roundtable: How Lego became the world’s biggest toymaker

Lego has become the world’s largest toy company. We’ve asked marketing experts how it went from near disaster – with private equity firms circling like buzzards a decade ago – to its greatest successes.
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