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Ask.com acquires Dictionary.com, other references
AP Business WriterAsk.com has bought a stable of Internet reference sites that includes Dictionary.com in its latest effort to distinguish itself from online search leader Google Inc. and other much larger rivals. Besides Dictionary.com, Ask is picking up Thesaurus.com...Tags: Online, Internet
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Verizon Wireless chooses Linux
Of The Associated PressVerizon Wireless is backing a free operating system that competes with programs from Microsoft Corp., Google Inc. and Qualcomm Inc. and expects it to become the ''preferred'' software on its network. It's the first U.S. carrier to join the LiMo...Tags: Computing and Information Technology, Verizon Communications, Software Industry, Electronics, Verizon Wireless
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Google passes Yahoo to become most popular U.S. Web site
AP Internet WriterGoogle has surpassed Yahoo to become the most popular Web site in the United States, according to comScore Inc.'s rankings by the number of unique monthly visitors. Google Inc. has long been the Internet's leader in search, but its audience has trailed...Tags: Internet, Yahoo! Incorporated, Microsoft Corporation
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Out To Oust Yahoo Board
The Associated PressBillionaire investor Carl Icahn is setting out to oust Yahoo Inc.'s board of directors for "irresponsible" and "unconscionable" actions that led Microsoft Corp. to withdraw a $47.5 billion offer to buy the slumping Internet pioneer. In a letter sent...Tags: Oracle Corporation, New York, Mylan Laboratories Incorporated, Internet, Yahoo! Incorporated
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A tale of two Chinese restaurants
Dining@LargeLast night Gailor and I ate in our second restaurant that serves traditional Chinese American food in as many days.We almost never eat in Chinese restaurants because there aren't any close to us. In this case, I was watching her......Tags: Seafood and Fishing Industry, Restaurant and Catering Industry
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Stocks rise on oil price drop, mixed economic data
AP Business WriterThe stock market notched its second straight daily advance Thursday, with investors assuaged by a pullback in oil prices and some better-than-expected economic data. Wall Street has been worried about cash-strapped consumers paring back their spending,...Tags: CBS Corp., Prices, Energy KD, Energy, Public Employees
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Virginia Beach says ad crossed line in the sand
Associated Press WriterLocal tourism officials say their counterparts at a South Carolina resort crossed a line in the sand with an effort to steer Internet surfers' vacation dollars toward the beach some 350 miles down the Atlantic coast. A Web ad that greeted Google users...Tags: Oceana, Richmond (Richmond, Virginia), Tourism and Leisure, Beach Vacations, South Carolina
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Microsoft Unveils Its Telescope Application
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThis Map to the Stars is as far from Hollywood as, say, Mars. Microsoft Corp. late Monday took the wraps off a vast visual guide to the universe that is powered by some of the world's best telescopes. Developed over the last six years in the Redmond,...Tags: NASA, Space Programs, Astronomy, Natural Science, Microsoft Corporation
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Microsoft unveils its telescope application
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThis Map to the Stars is as far from Hollywood as, say, Mars. Microsoft Corp. late Monday took the wraps off a vast visual guide to the universe that is powered by some of the world's best telescopes. Developed over the last six years in the Redmond,...Tags: NASA, Microsoft Corporation
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Google starts to blur faces in Street View photos
AP Technology WriterAfter privacy complaints, Google Inc. is beginning to automatically blur faces of people captured in the street photos taken for its Internet map program. Rolling it out will take several months, however. Although Google's Street View service was not the...Tags: New York, Electronics
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