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WhenMark Baowas a 5th grader, he wrote an app to help manage homework and sold it on floppy discs for $5 bucks a pop to his fellow students. Soon he began playing with PHP and web design, and as a freshman he createdDebateware, which is software for high school and college debate teams. In high school, the debate club President worked on dozens of projects, launched 4-5 start-ups likeGenevine,Supportbreeze, andClassleafand two foundations including theGenevine Foundationpromotes family and community while fighting homelessness and poverty and theCenter for Ethical Business....

The tech world is in shock today after Steve Jobs resigned from his position as CEO of Apple. The board has named COO Tim Cook as his replacement, but who is the man who faces the difficult job of replacing Jobs, a figure who has became synonymous with the company and its products? The son of a shipyard worker and housewife, Tim was born in November 1960 in Robertsdale, Alabama. Although his exact birth date is little known in the tech industry Tim is 50 years old, turning 51 years old this year....

While we in the tech world are stillcelebrating the lifeof Steve Jobs, I’ve seen numerous articles over the past few days that talk about the things he’s accomplished, the impact that he’s had and where we go from here. I’ve had conversations through Twitter, Google+, over the phone and otherwise wherein everyone from entrepreneurs to analysts and Venture Capital firms have expressed their concern for the technology ecosystem as a whole....

As news continues to filter in about Microsoft’s pending multi-billion dollartakeoverof Skype, it’s worth taking a step back to look at some of the numbers we’re talking about here. A number of figures have been bandied about, and with the official announcement likely to be hours away, it seems that somewhere in the region of$8bnwill exchange hands. But who’s hands will get what? Well, it’s commonly reported that eBay sold Skype two years ago…but it still actuallyownsalmost a third of the company....

On Monday, we brought you thehouse equipped with a water slide. Today, I present you with this awesome house in Tokyo, designed byLEVEL Architectsthat integrates a 3 story slide into the building. Talk about a child’s dream come true. With a slide instead of stairs, your kids will not only be safer, they’ll never be late to dinner again. There’s also a ball-pit room! Look how much the kids are having!...