But not to be outdone, today Oracle announced it will acquire Collective Intellect, a social intelligence company.

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V-MODA tapped the collective intellect of artists, editors and audiophiles to design, develop and vote on the first units to go to mass production.

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"This place is like a giant collective intellect, " he boasts, noting that Sydney Brenner, a Nobel laureate on the Salk faculty, sits on his scientific advisory board.

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