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        <title><![CDATA[Ride-sharing service gets $60 million boost]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Potential legal problems aren't scaring away investors from sharing startups.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Tyler Falk]]></dc:creator>
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        <title><![CDATA[Fashion e-store Zalora snaps up $100M]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The Zappos-style Southeast Asia-based online fashion store has raised $100 million to scale up operations.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Kirsten Korosec]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2013-05-23T15:45:50Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[Apps that simplify your life in space]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Get alerts when you're about to orbit over the Grand Canyon! Learn whether you'll need an umbrella on Jupiter today! These things work for earthlings too.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Halper]]></dc:creator>
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        <title><![CDATA[How Paris is redefining its suburbs]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[A massive new development could help redefine how Parisians view the suburbs.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Tyler Falk]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2013-05-22T17:47:28Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[What are the top 100 urban trends shaping our cities?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What are the most important advances and discussion points that are changing our cities?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Charlie Osborne]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2013-05-22T17:11:28Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[Rubber duck-stimulus hits Hong Kong]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[A conceptual art installation in Hong Kong has not only changed the city's skyline, it has changed the mood of its residents and inspired a flood of related products.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Kirsten Korosec]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2013-05-22T16:44:25Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[The Golden Gate of Helsinki]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The world's top architects are competing to design Finland's longest bridge. Why is it so special? Three words: no cars allowed.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Virginia C. McGuire]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2013-05-22T11:44:35Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[Enterprising couple builds 204 sq. ft. tiny home]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[And you thought your apartment was small.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Channtal Fleischfresser]]></dc:creator>
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        <title><![CDATA[Recycling is not architecture]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The Take's C.C. Sullivan wonders why designers, architects and artists think that recycling is automatically an aesthetic success. It takes a bit more than just reusing old stuff to create good design.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[In Mexico, investment with a social conscience]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[MEXICO CITY -- Philanthropy, meet venture capital. In Mexico, investments that offer a tangible social benefit are a growing market.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Lauren Villagran]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2013-05-22T10:00:48Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[Judge: NYC Airbnb stay illegal]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[There's more bad news for New York City's sharing economy.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Tyler Falk]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2013-05-21T15:38:18Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[Everything you've heard about starting a business is wrong]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Two entrepreneurs have some advice for would-be startup founders: Don't spend too much time planning when you should be selling.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Beth Carter]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2013-05-21T10:00:56Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[Car-sharing service RelayRides halts service after cease-and-desist letter]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/bulletin/car-sharing-service-relayrides-halts-service-after-cease-and-desist-letter/19982]]></link>
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        <description><![CDATA[Yet another peer-to-peer service comes up against regulatory hurdles in New York State.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Channtal Fleischfresser]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2013-05-17T10:10:03Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[Why is Argentina so resistant to the e-book?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[BUENOS AIRES -- Argentina's capital just held its 39th Book Fair, the largest in the Spanish speaking world. But largely missing was the item revolutionizing publishing everywhere else: the e-book.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Ian Mount]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2013-05-17T10:00:52Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[SunPower ramps up energy storage plans]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The solar company's plans to roll out an energy storage product marks a shift within the industry to offer more services.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Kirsten Korosec]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2013-05-16T16:36:20Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[How the crowd is making fashion design more efficient]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Could excess inventory become a thing of the past? New style startups not only give a boost to emerging designers, but bring unheard-of levels of economy to the fashion business.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Laura Shin]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2013-05-16T10:00:01Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[Drones could help utilities keep the lights on, group says]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The Electric Power Research Institute sees drones as a potentially powerful tool to respond to power outages after big storms.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Kirsten Korosec]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2013-05-15T18:09:19Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[Brazil's largest city to get free public WiFi ahead of World Cup]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Will the fast-approaching World Cup give Sao Paulo residents the free public WiFi they have long been promised?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Channtal Fleischfresser]]></dc:creator>
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        <title><![CDATA[The rise of alternative learning in laneways, pubs and new 'schools']]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[MELBOURNE -- Wish someone had taught you how to be confident or how to find a job you love? Melburnians are picking up some life lessons and new skills as part of a trend in &quot;altucation.&quot;]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Lieu Thi Pham]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2013-05-15T09:30:44Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[Electric car drivers tend to be rich, city-dwelling men?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Is it down to age and income, or simply as a means to avoid tax?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Charlie Osborne]]></dc:creator>
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