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1. ‘Forbes’: Facebook CEO is youngest self-made billionaire – USATODAY.com

   Forbes magazine released its list of the world’s mega-rich Wednesday and said Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, 23, became the youngest ever self-made billionaire. Zuckerberg, who turns 24 in May, is worth $1.5 billion.

2. Holiday draught? Guinness tries to make St Patrick’s Day a US national holiday – TaipeiTimes.Com

   “If we have a million signatures by midnight March 16, we’re going to get it into the hands of someone in Congress and try to get the ball rolling,” said Shawn Clair of the public relations firm which handles the US account of Guinness, an Irish stout bee

3. GM, Daimler look to lithium ion for hybrids – TaipeiTimes.Com

   General Motors Corp (GM) and Daimler AG unveiled plans on Tuesday for lithium-ion hybrids as automakers push to overcome difficulties with a technology that promises to push hybrid autos to the next level of performance.

4. Fuel cells providing homes with ‘clean’ electricity – Search.JapanTimes.Co.JP

   Masanori Naruse jogs every day, collects miniature cars and feeds birds in his backyard, but what he’s most proud of is the way his home and 2,200 like it in Japan get electricity and heat water — with power generated by a hydrogen fuel cell.

5. Red Cross yet to spend $200M of tsunami cash – TheStar.com

   More than three years after the Asian tsunami devastated several countries, $200 million of the $360 million donated to the Canadian Red Cross has still not been spent. After the tsunami killed more than 225,000.

6. Canada stuck in slow lane on ‘traffic shaping’ – TheStar.com

   Last fall, the Associated Press and the Electronic Frontier Foundation reported that Comcast, the largest cable provider in the United States, was actively interfering with network traffic by engaging in traffic shaping.

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