Chances of a broad overhaul of U.S. financial regulation this year dimmed on Thursday after bipartisan Senate talks collapsed.

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Wall Street reform hits an impasse

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One of the start-ups hoping to make a splash at this year’s South by Southwest Interactive Festival is Stickybits, a set of bar code stickers that you can “tag” with anything.

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Wearing your Stickybit on your sleeve, or elsewhere

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Across all of 2009, Dell managed to stay ahead of Acer by a hair’s-breadth, but the year-end trend wasn’t going Dell’s way.

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Acer’s PC market numbers add up

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Demographers say this year could be the “tipping point” when the number of babies born to minorities outnumbers that of babies born to whites.

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Minority babies set to become majority in 2010

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At the MIT Energy Conference this year, entrepreneurs and researchers showed off developments in everything from transportation to home energy efficiency.

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Driving toward a cleaner energy future

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