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Silicon Valley is Hacking Your Food | Inc.com
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Marcus Wohlsen, wired.comSan Francisco-based RelayRides just announced a deal that puts new corporate and technological weight behind its vision of ubiquitous mobility.
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(An earlier version of this story ran online.)
Max Nanis’s website prominently features about two dozen head shots of the skinny, scruffy 22-year-old Southern Californian with his shirt off …
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After he graduated from UCLA with a degree in philosophy, Sahadeva Hammari emailed one of his…
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