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Europe Plans 45% Boost To Science Investments, Funded By Slashing Farming Subsidies

Screw austerity: Science spending in the European Union is about to get a huge boost, at the expense of farming subsidies. The move is an acknowledgment that only by spending money on innovation and future tech can income growth be assured. READ»

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Facebook Launches Skype Video Calls, Group Messaging, Hits 750 Million Users [Video]

Facebook's showing off its new video calling with Skype and new group chat and design. This and more important news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day.READ»

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Zynga Files For IPO, U.K. Papers Ditch U.S. Editions, Facebook Winning, RIM Losing

Zynga just filed its Form S-1 stating its intent to IPO. This, and other bits of news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day.READ»

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iFive: Sony Canada Hacked, Google's NFC Credit Plans, No Windows 8 Soon, Amazon's Cheaper 3G Kindle, EU Laws Vs. Cookies

It's Wednesday May 25th, the 145th day of this year and 50 years to the day that J.F.K. said we'd put "a man on the Moon." Interesting, no? Almost as interesting as our summary of today's early news!READ»

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BP Manslaughter Charges, Twitter's Influencers, The Guardian's U.S. Expansion, and More...

Welcome to Fast Feed, the Fast Company reader's essential source for breaking news and innovation from around the web--bite-sized and updated all day.READ»

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iFive: AT&T/ T-Mobile's FCC Barriers, YouTube's Non-Camera Content, Senators vs. DUI Apps, E.U. Cyberattack, Gmail Woes in China

It's the 137th anniversary of Houdini's birth, and Google has a special Doodle for the event. But there's also plenty of early news for you to browse:READ»

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iFive: Twitter Not for Sale, Schoolboy Credit Fraud, EU Raids ebook Publishers, China eBook Piracy, Russian Rocket Woes

iFive is here to help jump-start your Thursday with a quick glance at the early innovation news:READ»

Europe Enacts Trillion-Euro Energy Accord, But It Ain't Totally Green

Europe committed today to a trillion-Euro transcontinental energy grid to reduce dependence on Mideast oil, strengthen energy supply resilience, and share energy more efficiently. But with a significant nuclear supply in the mix, it's not particularly green.READ»

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iFive: U.S. WikiLeaks Probe Illegal?, Apple's Friend-Finding, NASA's New Rocket, HP's WebOS Tablet, Rapidshare's Defamation

On this day 11 years ago Bill Gates left Microsoft, but that doesn't mean that his firm stopped innovating--nor anyone else either. On that note, here's this morning's early innovation news:READ»

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Europe Fines LCD Makers $800 Million for Price Fix Cartel

The European Commission has landed six LCD panel makers with a collective fine of over $800 million for a price-fixing cartel that operated between 2001 and 2006. Samsung, for ratting out its fellow fixers, had its fine nixed.READ»

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iFive: Anti-WikiLeaks Law, EU on Mobile Data Fees, Wikileaks Re-homed, Google's Facebook, China's Speedy Train

It's Friday--just 8 hours of innovative work, and this news roundup, between you and the weekend: READ»

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"WindScanner" Uses Laser Beams to Measure Wind Conditions

Though it seems like something a Bond villain would dream up, the laser-enabled WindScanners might make the world a better place, by helping wind farms exploit energy more efficiently.READ»

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Windfall for Europe as GE Invests $450 Million in Offshore Turbines

Four European countries are to benefit from GE's announcement this morning that it is to invest 340 million euros in the offshore wind business, which will include manufacturing, engineering, and service facilities. The company is ...READ»

Facebook, Google Facing Another Legal Privacy Challenge in Europe

Facebook's no stranger to digital privacy controversies, and for that matter neither is Google--but it now seems that both companies may be facing a new legal challenge in the E.U. over user-sharing of data about people without their ...READ»

Google AdWords Gets Legal Green Light From E.U. for Trademark Keywords

The European Union has, for once, passed a legal ruling in Google's favor. The case centers around Google's use of trademarks as keywords in its adwords system, which is now legally sanctioned. But the lawyers for Louis Vuitton and ...READ»

Browser Wars: Microsoft's E.U. Browser Ballot Saps IE's Marketshare

First, the European Union decided that Microsoft was unfairly monopolizing the browser market by bundling Internet Explorer in software packages. As a result E.U. users are now offered a ballot that allow them to select alternatives. ...READ»

E.U. Legislator's Data Privacy Concerns Could Kill E.U. Street View

You may have digital chills when pondering how much data Google collects about you, but the legislators in the E.U. are having serious spine-quakes, and are trying to regulate. An unexpected side-effect may be the death of E.U. ...READ»

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E.U. to Investigate Google for Antitrust; Microsoft Giggles in the Background

The E.U. has just opened an investigation into Google's possible monopoly in Europe, based on the claims of three companies who accuse Google of intentionally anticompetitive policies in its search and advertising. The E.U. is ...READ»

Bear Market Is Firmly Intact

The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose from 150 to 680 during the years 1940 to 1960. Even with huge tax burdens, investors wealth increased five-fold over 20 years. By contrast, we have just exited a lost decade, receiving no long-lasting benefit from a top tax rate of 35%, and we may be entering another difficult decadeREAD»

Green Thieves Launch Cap and Trade Scam

Cap-and-trade systems aren't just a burgeoning part of the new energy economy. They're a burgeoning chunk of thief bait. Last week, Hackers sent fake emails from the German Emissions Trading Authority (DEHSt) to companies in New ...READ»