Whether they were born in Israel or the U.S., there always are multiple start-ups, and often several established companies, trying to solve the same problem.

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The competition will get more heated in subsequent weeks when multiple big-budget films start opening against each other.

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They can be more ornate than you'd expect, however: for a start, you can run multiple app-specific tasks in parallel, such as telling Chrome to search YouTube, IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes the moment you type in a movie keyword.

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When Hugh Martin, the chief executive of gene sequencing start-up Pacific Biosciences, discovered that he had multiple myeloma, he bent over backward to disclose the fact to his entire company in excruciating detail, and also to his investors, his business partners, and Fortune, which ran a story about the way he handled the decision.

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Sean Parker and Shawn Fanning are teaming up on a new start-up called Supyo, a new video chat company, according to multiple sources.

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