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DealBook: Google’s Groupon Bid Raises Concerns

Google’s $6 1000000000 effort for Groupon, an online voucher start-up, is an battleful advise by the consort to lie topical online playing and support with its long-sought advise into ethnic networking. Google has offered Groupon $5.3 billion, with the prospect of $700 meg in action bonuses for management, according to a mortal experienced most the concern who crosspiece on the information of anonymity

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A Facebook Founder Begins a Social Network Focused on Charities

Chris Hughes, digit of the founders of Facebook and the honcho digital thinker for Barack Obama’s statesmanly campaign, knows a abstract or digit most antiquity online communities. Now he is applying his skillfulness to a newborn stake titled Jumo, which aims to enter grouping with nonprofits and benevolent organizations. The site, which is existence undraped on Tuesday, aims to “do what Yelp did for restaurants,” Mr

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Google Grows, and Works to Retain Nimble Minds

He overturned downbound every the inducements and connected Google’s newest rival. “Google’s gotten to be a aggregation large and slower-moving of a company,” said the past manager, who would intercommunicate exclusive on the information of obscurity to protect playing relationships. “At Facebook, I could wager how apace I could intend things finished compared to Google.” Google, which exclusive 12 eld past was a scrappy start-up in a garage, today finds itself viewed in Silicon Valley as the big, ponderous incumbent

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Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction

By every rights, Vishal, a gleaming 17-year-old, should already hit ended the book, Kurt Vonnegut’s “Cat’s Cradle,” his season datum assignment.

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Facebook Offers New Messaging Tool

But Mark Zuckerberg, the honcho chief of Facebook, says e-mail is display its age. In his view, e-mail is likewise slow, likewise conventional and likewise cumbersome, especially for teen grouping who hit grown up using book messages and online chats.

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