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The Freakonomics blog post on Israel has some interesting stuff, but also a lot of garbage.

As Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. near the expected regulatory approval of their deal for Bing to power all Yahoo searches, Bing will become a far more important player in the search business -- one that no search marketer can safely ignore.

Twitter Inc. may have started out as a status update tool, but the underpinnings of this SMS engine may have what it takes to keep your supply chain strong.

"RTFM," Linux newbies are often told -- but too often, there isn't one. The FOSS community is renowned for its helpfulness, but when it comes to good old-fashioned professional documentation, there's a gaping void.

New design is meant to reduce what Google calls distractions to those who want to get right to searching.

We are told: 'Don't complain. Aren't we bringing you the traffic?'. But I can't take traffic to my bank manager.

Yesterday's notice from Google that publishers would be able to block access to more than five stories in 24 hours set off a wave of claims that the change in the First Click Free program was a deal with critic News Corp and/or that the search engine was giving in to publisher concerns at the expense of users.

Arianna Huffington used her 25 minutes at the FTC's 'How Will Journalism Survive The Internet Age?' conference to take News Corp .

Google's mobile team today unveiled an upgraded version of Google News for the Apple iPhone, Palm's Pre and Pixi and for smartphones running its own Android operating system.

What are the chances that Dell intends to offer a Chrome netbook next year? The company's early interest in Google's open source OS suggests that Dell may be see growing opportunities in the manufacture of machines with cloud-based applications in mind.

Facebook, which has over 300 million users, has raised more than $600 million from investors since it was founded more than five years ago.

Google's Chrome OS might not be a market changer for several reasons -- among them Google's scattered focus -- but there is pent-up demand for an appliance offering.

It's something the best of magicians do seamlessly: distract you with one hand so that you don't even notice the other hand is doing anything at all.

ALMOST 10 YEARS AGO, IN JANUARY 2000 , America Online CEO Steve Case announced one of the boldest, craziest ideas in modern business history: a $182 billion stock-and-debt deal to buy mighty Time Warner, creating an Internet and media colossus with a combined market cap of $350 billion.

Microsoft has launched a new mobile ad product that combines mobile search and display.

The economy is still weak but markets are functioning and buyers are buying and sellers are selling.

Google has signed a deal with TiVo to collect anonymized data about user habits.

There are few things more terrifying to me than the idea of going anywhere near a shopping establishment on Black Friday.

Gartner Projects Modest PC Growth for 2009 [November 23, 2009] After a bleak first half of the year, sales are finally creeping into positive territory.

Google Tightens BlackBerry Integration Google upgrades its Google Apps Connector for BlackBerry, adding scale to its apps for users of the popular smartphone.