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No antitrust talks at Google meeting: EU’s Almunia (Reuters)

Reuters – The EU’s antitrust chief said on Thursday he would meet Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt next week, adding he would not be discussing the regulator’s investigation into the Internet search engine’s business practices.

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Missouri law limiting teacher-student online contact draws ire (Reuters)

Reuters – As the school year resumes next week, Missouri teachers will have to think twice about making private contact with students on Internet sites such as Facebook.

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Google Remains Ahead of Bing, But Relevance Drops (NewsFactor)

NewsFactor – According to an Experian Hitwise report released Thursday, Google accounted for just more than 66 percent of searches conducted by the 10 million U.S. Internet users sampled during a four-week period last month.

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$25 billion Groupon valuation "very high": analyst (Reuters)

Reuters – Estimates that Groupon Inc is worth $25 billion are very high because the largest online daily deals company is losing money, Benchmark Co analyst Fred Moran said on Friday.

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Google+ Posts Now Appear in Google Search Results (Mashable)

Mashable – Google has begun integrating Google+ into search results with public Google+ posts now appearing in Social Search. Whenever a user publicly shares a link on Google+, an annotation will show up under that link when it appears in a friend’s search results. For example, if I share a Mashable article about Google+ eliminating pseudonyms publicly on my Google+ page, users who have added me to their circles will see a note that I shared that link if they stumble upon it in Google Search.

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Starbucks Card Social Experiment Hacked by Entrepreneur (Mashable)

Mashable – Sam Odio, a serial entrepreneur who previously sold his photo startup Divvyshot to Facebook, has manipulated Jonathan Stark’s now-famous communal Starbucks Card to transfer $625 of the balance to his own Starbucks Card. In a blog post entitled, “How to use Jonathan’s card to buy yourself an iPad,” Odio describes the exploit and makes a case for himself as a modern day Robin Hood — taking the money donated by others for coffee purchases and donating it to charity instead.

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Starbucks Card Social Experiment Hacked by Entrepreneur
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Napa Valley blends wine and Internet for charity (AFP)

AFP – Internet technology will blend with coveted vintages next week to open a premier Napa Valley wine country charity auction to the world.

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Napa Valley blends wine and Internet for charity
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PayPal Says Google Wallet Steals Trade Secrets (NewsFactor)

NewsFactor – While Google was outlining Google Wallet for mobile payments, PayPal was readying a lawsuit against the search giant.

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Sarkozy enlists tech A-list for Web economy forum (Reuters)

Reuters – When the Internet world’s titans alight in Paris next week for a two-day forum hosted by French President Nicolas Sarkozy, two often clashing views on the digital world will be on display.

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‘Jeopardy!’-winning computer delving into medicine (AP)

AP – Some guy in his pajamas, home sick with bronchitis and complaining online about it, could soon be contributing to a digital collection of medical information designed to help speed diagnoses and treatments.

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