First, lets start with one of the key contradictions in your article.

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Lets start by stating this is NOT a Blu-ray Vs.

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So lets start by bringing those jobs back home.

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Lets start with Europe.

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This lets users start conversations directly from Cover Feed instead of having to open up the messenger app to start chatting.

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The Windows Phone 8 start-screen lets you customize and pin Live Tiles with topics of personal interest, providing real-time updates that are uniquely yours.

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The Windows Phone 8 start-screen lets you customise and pin Live Tiles with topics of personal interest, providing real-time updates that are uniquely yours.

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Zoomingo lets shoppers get a jump start and find all the best deals locally with a searchable catalog of pre-Black Friday sales from all the national retailers.

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In our world of make-believe, lets pretend a company is going to start a fund that you, as an investor can buy like a stock, to track the price of water over time.

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Start-up Bluestacks has produced a software wrapper that lets the phone apps run on a desktop Apple machine.

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The first wearable cam that offers direct-to-Facebook live streaming, Looxcie HD lets users create their own personal broadcasting network, with the ability to start either a public broadcast for anyone to watch or a private stream for only invited friends.

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It also lets the government put off its slowdown in pension increases, originally due to start in 2002, when a general election is due.

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Lizzie Hodgson, 38, turned to Startup Compass recently to see how her year-old company, Civicboom, which lets news organizations access and verify user-generated images and videos, stacked up against other tech start-ups.

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The new software features a self-service portal that lets any user create an account, set up the amount of storage they need, and then start uploading files via the cloud with just a few clicks.

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