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Microsoft is paying a premium to keep Facebook from the clutches of rival Google in a deal that puts an inflated 15 billion dollar price tag on the red-hot startup, analysts said Thursday.

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Touting a successful pairing of wireless and hi-fi audio, fabless chip vendor Avnera Corp. (Beaverton, Ore.) today will announce chip sets for wireless audio connections in the 2.4-GHz band that outperform data-oriented wireless connections in range, freedom from interference, automatic network configuration and full CD-quality sound.

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It seems every few years, someone predicts doom for the Internet. It’s Larry Roberts’s turn. According to Roberts — well known as a team member behind Arpanet, the project that eventually grew into today’s Internet — it’s not technology that has the Internet in trouble, but economics.

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NEW YORK — Comcast Corp. on Tuesday acknowledged “delaying” some subscriber Internet traffic, but said any roadblocks it puts up are temporary and intended to improve surfing for other users.

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The Accelerator initiative of the high-tech inventions conference aims to turn the annual brain-fest into a year-round network of social activism

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The newly announced User Generated Content Principles, backed by several media companies, exhorts websites to filter content while paying lip service to fair use.

CBS, Disney, Fox, NBC, and Viacom are among those boosting User Generated Content Principles, a set of guidelines for sharing content online without violating anyone’s copyrights. Sharing through a service like YouTube [...]

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Surviving a market bust — real estate or otherwise — takes fortitude. The first rule is don’t panic. Every downturn has an upside. So say Chad Parks, whose startup company outlasted the 2001 dot-com bust, and David Decker, author of “Cash In on the Coming Real Estate Crash.” Their tips:

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