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  • I don't claim to be a mergers and acquisitions expert but it looks like Google's been buying its groceries at the convenience store. In other words…

  • The Department of Justice has opened a case against eBay to see whether some of its employees used information from Craigslist to build a similar,…

  • Researchers at Stanford University have invented a pain detector. They can now tell if someone is in pain using brain scans and that means they don…

  • Fashionista-bargainistas, and apparently there is such a thing, crashed the Target site yesterday. The store launched a line for high-fashion brand…

  • Sep 14, 2011

    Google takes off

    Google launched Flight Search yesterday. It's a Kayak-like service that shows flight information when you type departure and landing points into…

  • Well, commercial tweets anyway. Twitter is expanding its paid tweets program and will begin inserting commercial messages in your feed. So you'll…

  • There is some squabbling in Washington over a $535 million loan made to a solar panel company called Solyndra LLC, which abruptly declared…

  • British chemists are developing a new method of finding people missing in those crucial days after a disaster. Their research has just been…

  • No, that's not a movie title, and you're welcome for never having to sit through it (although it might have a few… points of interest). Google…

  • Sep 13, 2011

    Typosquatting

    That's the term for a security risk resulting from mis-typed email addresses….