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MSNBC
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Yahoo Inc. and McAfee Inc. are joining to offer alerts about potentially dangerous Web sites alongside search results generated at Yahoo.com.
With the new security feature — slated to take effect Tuesday — people who search the Internet using Yahoo..
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BBC News
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People searching the web for information on suicide are more likely to find sites encouraging the act than offering support, a study says.
Researchers used four search engines to look for suicide-related sites, the British Medical Journal said.
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MSNBC
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Amazon.com Inc.'s brick-and-mortar competitors have yet another reason to fear the Web: a new service that lets shoppers compare prices and buy things with a few quick taps ontheir cell phones.
Amazon TextBuyIt, which launched late Tuesday, lets people..
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MSNBC
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Microsoft Corp.'s online advertising researchers will spend this year teaching computers to be smart about sticking ads into video clips, and to be even smarter about targeting ads to specific Web surfers.
Microsoft showed off a handful of early-stage..
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BusinessWeek
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The FTC ruled in Google's favor on Dec. 20, but the Web search giant still needs the approval of the EU's antitrust commission
Score one for Google. The Federal Trade Commission ruled Dec. 20 that it would not block Google's (GOOG) proposed $3.1 billio..
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BBC News
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Microsoft has bought online mapping company Multimap to expand its web business, the US firm said.
Multimap, which was established in 1996, is among the UK's top 10 visited websites, receiving more than 10 million users each month.
Microsoft hopes t..
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BBC News
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Yahoo has moved to further strengthen its service to advertisers by buying web marketing business BlueLithium for $300m (�149.4m).
Set up in 2004, BlueLithium provides technology enabling websites to better match adverts with users' interests.
The..
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Yahoo News
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The New York Times Co. plans to stop charging Internet users for access to its columnists and Op-Ed pieces on a section of its Web site known as TimesSelect, The New York Post reported on Tuesday.
The Post, citing a source briefed on the matter, said a..
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Washington Post
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If you listen to music, news or other programming via the Internet, you're likely to find a soundstream of silence today. The Day of Silence is a one-day protest being staged by big corporate web radio outlets, innovative smaller companies that are trying..
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BBC News
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Apple has launched a version of its web browser Safari for Windows, competing head to head with Microsoft's Explorer and Mozilla's Firefox.
Chief executive Steve Jobs said Apple "dream big" and wanted to expand the 4.9% market share Safari enjoys.
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New York Post
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Google is trying to clean up its search results by cracking down on dubious Web sites that contain little content but lots of ads.
The search giant has notified a number of Web publishers in the last few days that they will be dropped from its popular..
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BBC News
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One in 10 web pages scrutinised by search giant Google contained malicious code that could infect a user's PC.
Researchers from the firm surveyed billions of sites, subjecting 4.5 million pages to "in-depth analysis".
About 450,000 were capable of l..
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ZDNET
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Imagine this scenario…
You're CEO of a $16 billion company and you've just given a warm and fuzzy sales pitch to thousands of up and coming Web 2.0 developers, trying to convince them to use your new web services. The presentation goes swimmingly wel..
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BusinessWeek
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Wikis and blogs may be all the rage in the business press, but a new survey indicates that companies are hedging their bets
Companies may talk about embracing Web 2.0, but they're slow to invest in blogs, wikis, and many of the other new collaborative..
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BusinessWeek
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A new partnership gives the Web portal a leg up in its ongoing battle with Google for a bigger share of the online-advertising market
Yahoo! has new reason to holler, and it's at Google's expense. The Internet portal announced a multiyear deal with Via..
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CBS News
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The agency that sets the Internet addressing guidelines influencing how people navigate the Web defeated a proposal Friday to give adult Web sites their own ".xxx" domain.
Many in the adult-entertainment industry and religious groups alike had criticiz..
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CNN
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Sensing a revolution in the way Internet traffic is managed, rock and roll musicians find themselves in the unusual position of defending the status quo.
Independent, lesser-known musicians and smaller record labels have launched a nationwide campaign..
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The Register
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The landslide of bad news from Registerfly has continued, as ICANN created a forum for dispute resolution for this mess, and Registerfly customers desperately tried to shift their domains to other registrars before they vanished into cyberspace.
The ro..
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Physorg
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Turkey lifted its ban on YouTube Friday, an official for the country's largest telecommunications firm said, two days after a court ordered the Web site blocked because of videos that allegedly insulted the founder of modern Turkey.
Ahter Kutadgu, head..
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Yahoo News
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As Facebook.com's mastermind, Mark Zuckerberg is sitting on a potential gold mine that could make him the next Silicon Valley whiz kid to strike it rich.
But the 22-year-old founder of the Internet's second largest social-networking site also could tur..
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