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Sunday, July 31st, 2011
It’s time to to bring TechCrunch Disrupt back home to San Francisco. We are accepting applications for startups to launch at the Disrupt Startup Battlefield until midnight tonight. Applications for the Startup Battlefield can be submitted here.
Does your startup have what it takes to be the next Getaround, Qwiki, or Soluto—and make it through the judges gauntlet to claim [...]
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Sunday, July 31st, 2011

Monty Python meets Alien in Ministry of Alien Silly Walks, an absurd otherworldly art print by 6amcrisis.
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Geek Life
Sunday, July 31st, 2011
Yani Tseng rallied to win the Women’s British Open and claim her fifth career major at age 22. Can anyone rise to challenge her? Our panel debates this, Scott Stallings’s victory at the Greenbrier, Rory McIlroy’s Twitter tussle, Tiger Woods’s upcoming return and more.
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Sunday, July 31st, 2011
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Sunday, July 31st, 2011
Australian miner Macarthur Coal Ltd. on Monday rejected a $5.2 billion takeover bid by U.S energy giant Peabody Energy Corp. and steelmaker ArcelorMittal as “opportunistic.”
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Sunday, July 31st, 2011
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Sunday, July 31st, 2011
Stocks: Beyond debt and onto jobsCNNBut the rally may be short lived since the coming week also brings the ever-important monthly jobs report. The economic recovery has slowed considerably and "job creation is the answer to a lot of things," said Luschini. The US economy is expected to …
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Sunday, July 31st, 2011
AP – The cost of the compromise needed to raise the federal debt ceiling likely will inflict more fiscal pain on states still struggling to recover from the recession and the end of federal stimulus spending.
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Sunday, July 31st, 2011
AP – Ending a perilous stalemate, President Barack Obama and congressional leaders announced historic agreement Sunday night on emergency legislation to avert the nation’s first-ever financial default. The dramatic resolution lifted a cloud that had threatened the still-fragile economic recovery and rattled global markets.
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Sunday, July 31st, 2011
AFP – US President Barack Obama announced late Sunday that he and top lawmakers had reached an 11th-hour deal to avert a disastrous debt default that would have sown chaos in the world economy.
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