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Google cleared of search bias after two-year investigation
The Guardian
Google has been forced by regulators in the US to agree to legally binding changes to the way it presents some search results and runs its search advertising following nearly two years of investigation. But the internet search engine was exonerated of ...
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The Guardian
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The Economist
... Feast and famine · Analects · Free exchange · Americas view · Game theory · Babbage · Graphic detail · Banyan · Gulliver · Baobab · Johnson · Blighty · Lexington's notebook · Buttonwood's notebook · Newsbook · Cassandra · Pomegranate · Charlemagne ...
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The Economist
Google Dodges Antitrust Hit
Wall Street Journal
Overall, "this is a huge win for Google, which closed a dangerous investigation with minimal consequences," said Eric Goldman, a law professor at Santa Clara University who specializes in Internet law. Google, whose shares were nearly flat after the ...
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Wall Street Journal
Amazon's R&D Group Lab126 Embarks On Hiring Spree As Kindle Business ...
TechCrunch
Lab126 Logo. Amazon's Lab126, the secretive R&D group behind the Kindle, is apparently on a hiring spree, as noted by the EETimes, which speculates that the organization may be planning to spin out the lab as a stand-alone company. ... Amazon has also ...
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Toyota, Audi to show off self-driving cars at CES
CNET
Like the autonomous research cars Google has been testing since 2009, Toyota's prototype Lexus LS 600h sports what appears to be a roof-mounted laser used to guide the vehicle. It also features radar and camera equipment used to navigate streets ...
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France's Health-Care System Is Going Broke
Businessweek
For decades, France has held up its health-care system as a model to the world. Homeopathic remedies, support tights, and taxi rides to the hospital are among the many costs reimbursed by the health-care branch of France's social security system, known ...
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Dollar Gains as Gold, Asian Stocks Outside Japan Decline on Fed
Bloomberg
The dollar climbed to a 2 1/2-year high against the yen and gold declined after U.S. Federal Reserve policy makers said they may cut cash infusions this year. Japanese stocks surged in their first trading session of 2013 as other major Asian markets ...
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Yelp calls FTC deal with Google a 'missed opportunity'
CNET
"The closure of the Commission's investigation into search bias by Google without action, however, represents a missed opportunity to protect innovation in the Internet economy, and the consumers and businesses that rely upon it." Now, Yelp said, it's ...
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The X Factor USA boosts profits at Simon Cowell's TV business, Simco
The Guardian
Simco, which includes "music sales" in a description of its activities in the latest financial filing at Companies House, said that the biggest contributor to the increase in profits came from the launch of The X Factor USA, broadcast by Fox. The ...
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The Guardian
Digital Health Companies Must Make Themselves Indispensable To Established ...
Forbes
In a post last year that must qualify as an instant classic, Psilos VC Lisa Suennen (aka Venture Valkyrie) compared her experiences at the old-school, tragically unhip (e.g.) 2012 HIMSS (Health Information and Management Systems Society) conference and ...
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US: Time not right for Google executive's North Korea trip
Reuters
Google espouses a mission of organizing the world's information and making it universally accessible and useful. North Korea is one of the world's most repressive states, with Internet access limited largely to the most influential officials and media ...
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Google Discovers Fraudulent Digital Certificate Issued for Its Domain
Wired
The unauthorized certificate was created after a Trusted Root certificate authority in Turkey, Turktrust, issued intermediate Certificate Authority certificates to two entities last year that should not have received them. Turktrust told Google that it ...
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NPD counts 39M game consoles in US homes going into 2013
Joystiq
Video game consoles come in third, right above tablets (31.8 million) and connected HDTVs (16 million), which means there's a significant number of game-oriented devices out there plugged into the Internet. The NPD says it expects these devices to ...
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CES 2013 Preview: Fewer Electronics, More Cars
MIT Technology Review
Apple hasn't had a presence on the show floor for years, and Amazon and Google have never had much of a presence. ... One company bucking this trend is Samsung, the world's largest mobile phone manufacturer, which will have a major presence at CES ...
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MIT Technology Review
Google bringing YouTube Android app pairing, updated UI to more TVs
Engadget
Google updated its YouTube app for Android back in November to allow for pairing with TVs equipped with Google TV, and it looks we'll soon be seeing quite a few more sets ready to work with your smartphone or tablet. The company confirmed today that ...
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Gold Set for Worst Run Since '04, Fed Signals No Buys
Businessweek
Gold tumbled, poised for the longest run of weekly losses since 2004, as Federal Reserve policy makers said that they'll probably end asset purchases this year and investors cut holdings by the most since May. Silver slumped to the lowest since August ...
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US approves health exchanges in four Republican-governed states
Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. officials on Thursday gave four states currently governed by Republicans the green light to set up their own health insurance exchanges under President Barack Obama's healthcare reform law, an initiative largely opposed by ...
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The WarZ's Servers Were Attacked, Game Brought Down
Kotaku
It's now back up and running, but for portions of that time, while the servers were down, the game was inaccessible. You could wonder why anyone would go out of their way to attack the servers of a video game, but then, this happens to games at the ...
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Google Now praises the iPad, but only if you ask it about giraffes
The Next Web
A bug in Google Now (and Google Translate) spits out some fairly amusing dialog if you ask it 'what is a Giraffe'. It appears to be a glitch having to do with ending an open-ended phrase in 'with' which appears either translation or input. For instance ...
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The Next Web
Amazon Is The Real Reason Google Is Forcing Everyone To Join Google+
Business Insider
Here's A Diagram Of How Facebook's FBX Ad Exchange Works · Google is increasingly requiring users to sign up for Google+, its social network competitor to Facebook, in order to access Google's other free services, according to The Wall Street Journal.
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Business Insider
ComScore: iPhone up to 35 percent of US smartphone share in November ...
Engadget
With Motorola and HTC also on the downward slide, the US market this fall was increasingly mirroring its global counterpart, where it was really Apple and Samsung's game to play -- others might have to be content watching from the sidelines in the future.
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Google settles on patents, other antitrust claims
Yahoo! News (blog)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is pledging to license hundreds of key patents to mobile computing rivals under more reasonable terms and to curb the use of snippets from other websites in Internet search results in a settlement that ends a high-profile ...
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Stocks Pull Back After Fed Release
Wall Street Journal
Stocks slipped, snapping a two-day win streak, after minutes from the Federal Reserve's December policy meeting indicated some members favored backing off efforts to stimulate the economy this year. The Dow Jones Industrial Average declined 21.19 ...
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Google settles with FTC over antitrust issues
CNET
Google competitors unhappy with the way their search results are displayed on Google search pages will be able to opt out under an agreement announced today by the Federal Trade Commission. That was perhaps the most significant plank of a multipart ...
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Milan players refuse to play after racist abuse from fans – video
The Guardian
Milan players refuse to play after racist abuse from fans – video. Milan players walk off the pitch after Kevin-Prince Boateng is racially abused by a section of supporters. The incident happened during a friendly between the Rossoneri and fourth tier ...
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The Guardian


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