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  • Google's philanthropic arm, Google.org, will be run under for-profit status. Janet Babin looks at what that means for the charity.

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  • NBC hopes to use its football telecasts to help it out of its rating slump. Janet Babin reports.

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  • The social networking Web site is making waves in the music industry by allowing artists with MySpace pages to sell music on them. Janet Babin reports.

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  • You want to sell your home, but you don't want the price to sink in the softening market. How do you protect yourself? Janet Babin tells her story.

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  • In its fight against hate crimes and child porn, Brazil's government wants Google to turn over information on users of its Orkut website. Google says no. Janet Babin reports.

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  • Will the latest round of sales incentives from U.S. automakers do much to revive slumping sales? Janet Babin reports.

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  • A phone-security company bought 10 cell phones off eBay to test its security software — and found a lot of sensitive information that their former owners thought they'd erased. Janet Babin reports.

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  • Altria, the parent company of Kraft Foods and cigarette-maker Philip Morris, is under pressure from shareholders to separate the two companies. Janet Babin reports.

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  • The search engine giant is out with yet another new product and this one's going after a market where Microsoft is currently king. Can Google Apps lure away small to mid-size businesses? Janet Babin checks it out.

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  • Two new studies suggest employees are spending way too much time tethered to the office by those mobile e-mail phones. Could it be addiction? Janet Babin reports.

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