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TOKYO - Panasonic has increased its stakes in two key subsidiaries through multibillion dollar tender offers as it pushes ahead with a strategy to strengthen its green technology businesses.
JOHANNESBURG - A South African think tank is offering tutoring on a popular mobile phone platform after a nationwide teachers' strike left final year students unprepared for end-of-term exams.
WASHINGTON - Ordinary computers like those folks use to send e-mail or surf the Internet are being credited with finding a previously unknown neutron star.
CORNING, N.Y. - An ultra-strong glass that has been looking for a purpose since its invention in 1962 is poised to become a multibillion-dollar bonanza for Corning Inc.
Combine Facebook, Twitter, geocaching and a Lonely Planet guidebook, and what do you get?
Gowalla.
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