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  • Facebook founder 'most influential'

    The 23-year-old founder of social networking site Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, has been named by an industry poll as the most influential person in technology for 2007.

  • Amazon chief: Web Services ready for takeoff

    Launched five years ago, Web Services business "is an investment," says CEO Jeff Bezos.

  • Google co-founders cash in

    Last month, the 32-year-old celebrity co-founders of Google each sold more than US$160 million worth of their company's stock.

  • Gates retains 'wealthiest' crown

    Tech industry billionaires loomed large in Forbes' latest list of the wealthiest people in the US, with Bill Gates and his US$51 billion fortune again topping the list.

  • Amazon patents gender stereotyping

    Amazon.com has been granted a US patent on "Methods and systems of assisting users in purchasing items", including the use of gift-buying habits to determine the age, gender and birth-date of gift recipients, according to a US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) filing on Tuesday.

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    Stateless is living the dream

    Relaxed Melbourne-based start-up Stateless Systems won't be the next Amazon or Google, but the founders are already internet legends and likely to become even more cool as they launch more quirky products.

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  • Gates' extreme makeover

    While other tech honchos play hard to get, Microsoft's boss holds a first-of-a-kind chat with a blogger, writes News.com's Jeff Pelline.

  • Geeks in space

    From Paul Allen to Jeff Bezos, high-tech luminaries have ambitions that are out of this world. What is it with deep-pocket geeks and space?

  • New light shed on unbreakable encryption

    Scientists at Northwestern University say they have harnessed the properties of light to encrypt information into code that can be cracked only one way: by breaking the physical laws of nature.

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