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    Lawmakers express support for Internet sales tax 01/12/2011 09:01:42

    Several members of the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee voiced support Wednesday for legislation that would allow states to collect sales tax on Internet purchases.
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    Oracle buys RightNow for roughly $US1.5 billion 25/10/2011 00:06:00

    Oracle is buying RightNow Technologies for about US$1.5 billion in order to boost its recently announced Public Cloud with customer-service software, the companies announced Monday. The deal is expected to close late this year or in early 2012.
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    RightNow acquires natural language search company 19/01/2011 10:31:00

    CRM vendor RightNow has agreed to buy Q-go.com, a vendor of natural language-based search software, for $US34 million in cash, the companies announced Tuesday.
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    Global Brands Snap Up .co Domain Names 09/08/2010 20:11:00

    Originally, .co was just the Internet country code for Colombia. But now it's becoming a popular top-level domain for major global brands such as BMW, Canon, Honda, Nike, Nokia, Pfizer, Sony and Visa.
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    Social media marketing: 5 must-read books 28/12/2009 22:15:00

    When the Internet arrived for mass public consumption in the mid-'90s, a whole new world of advertising to and communicating with customers and potential customers cracked open its gates. Companies of all sizes began creating Web sites and putting their products online; some companies, such as Amazon.com and Overstock.com, existed only on the Web.
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    Facebook will shut down Beacon to settle lawsuit 19/09/2009 14:57:00

    Facebook has agreed to shut down its much maligned Beacon advertising system in order to settle a class-action lawsuit.
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    Oracle CEO, set to buy Sun, hails Java at conference 03/06/2009 07:44:00

    Reassuring the Java community, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison pledged a commitment to Java technologies, including the budding JavaFX rich media extension to Java, on Tuesday morning at the JavaOne conference in San Francisco.
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    At the front lines of protecting the Internet 03/09/2008 08:35:00

    VeriSign is in many ways synonymous with managing the Web, thanks to its handling of key DNS root servers and of name resolution for .com, .net, and other domains. In recent years, it's had both strong ups and strong downs.
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    Gates: Microsoft fights back from underdog status on search 22/05/2008 09:16:51

    After vague statements over the last weeks about internal investments that will allow it to compete in search without Yahoo, Microsoft on Wednesday laid out more of its vision for improving on its current "underdog" position in search.
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    Facebook partners quiet on Beacon fallout 11/12/2007 08:25:17

    Many partners in Facebook's Beacon seem reticent to address the raging privacy controversy surrounding the ad program, resorting to terse, vague statements or opting for outright silence when asked for comment.
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    Risk-taking blogs: Living on the edge 22/10/2007 10:26:58

    Standing on the edge of the blogosphere, you can see some pretty strange sights (and sites). Pillows that look like they are stained with blood, a debate about national borders and journalism ethics, and even one site commenting on the staff salary levels of another (now that is odd).
 
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