Jawed Karim: The co-founder of the YouTube.

Jawed Karim is a co-founder of the popular video sharing websiteYouTube. He founded the concept and website with Chad Hurley andSteve Chen, whom he had met while working at PayPal. Karim had been attending the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, but left campus after co-founder of PayPal and Illinois alum Max Levchin approached him to become one of PayPal’s early employees. While at PayPal, he implemented the...

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Battle With Apple: Dell Sends Redesigned XPS Notebooks

Three against Apple: Dell's new XPS laptop lineup. Funny thing: Apple, the world’s most valuable technology company isn’t even number two in the U.S. personal computer market. That honor goes to Dell, a company worth less than 5% of Apple’s market value. But while Apple owns just 10% of the U.S market — trailing both HP, with 28%, and Dell, with 21% — it scoops up an outsize chunk of the profits. So to keep up with its more...

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Bitdefender builds a safer browser

Bitdefender's line of 2013 suites launches today with a new secure browser for performing financial transactions in the browser equivalent of a safe room. You can download Bitdefender Total Security 2013, Bitdefender Internet Security 2013 , andBitdefender Antivirus Plus 2013 exclusively from Download.com today. The company's Safepay browser is the keystone new feature in this year's edition. The browser takes existing...

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IBM Now Has The World's Fastest Supercomputer

The IBM Sequoia system. (Credit: IBM) Last year, Fujitsu’s K Computer took the crown as the world’s fastest supercomputer by demonstrating it could perform at 8.162 petaflop/s – which is 8.162 quadrillion floating-point operations per second. That was nearly four times faster than the Chinese Tianhe-1A, which took the number two slot. In November, Fujitsu reported that the K computer had become the first...

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Top 100 Websites For Women 2012

We’re thrilled to present the third annual Forbes Top 100 Websites for Women. As the official method to our madness, this  list is the sum of a year’s worth of Internetting, asking around and getting lost down the rabbit hole of the best (and sometimes weirdest) of the Web. We’re forever indebted to our friends in the ForbesWoman community: from the ongoing conversations in our Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook groups...

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