Marketplace Tech Report for Friday, June 15, 2012

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Coming soon to your Internet browsing experience: .beer, .love and .app. Companies have submitted applications for more than 1,400 new top-level domain names. Those are the suffixes that come at the end of a web address, where we have .com and .org now. How will that change your Internet browsing experience? Plus, impressing your friends by buying tastemaker stock.

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Coming soon: .beer, .love and even .unicorn

The list of applications for new top level domains has been released. What'll the rush of new web addresses mean to you?
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