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New low-cost notebooks no cure-all for PC brands

TAIPEI - PC brands are hoping to copy their success with low-cost consumer notebooks to corporate buyers, but acceptance among that fussier segment could be harder even as the the cheaper models dent the broader industry’s profits.

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Google increasingly battles Facebook in search

Google has long been the king of search, dominating rivals including Yahoo Inc. and Microsoft Corp. But it increasingly sees social networks such as Facebook as challengers to its search engine, a Google official said.

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Twitter eyes foray into TV

LOS ANGELES – How’s this for a tweet? Twitter is coming to a television near you. The social-networking and micro-blogging service is developing the first TV series that incorporates Twitter into the action of the show.

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Online news fees: financial salvation or suicide?

The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette is a rarity among large U.S. newspapers — it’s selling more weekday copies than a decade ago. In Idaho, the Post Register’s circulation has remained stable, while many other print publications have lost readers to the Internet. How can this be?

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Yahoo eyes acquisitions, social media

NEW YORK - Yahoo Inc is looking to buy companies that will allow it to become a bigger player in social networking and revamp its family of products, Chief Technology Officer Ari Balogh said on Wednesday.

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