SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo’s free email service is becoming a bit more like Google’s Gmail as part of its second makeover in less than a year. The similarities to Gmail probably aren’t coincidental. Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer helped design some ...

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SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft is so confident it has the Internet’s best email service that it is about to spend at least $30 million to send its message across the U.S. The barrage begins Tuesday when Microsoft’s twist on email, ...

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SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo has retooled its free email service in an attempt to regain some of the ground it lost to Google’s popular alternative. Aside from the new look unveiled Tuesday, Yahoo introduced email apps for the iPhone, iPad ...

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WASHINGTON — Google has agreed to adopt a comprehensive privacy program to settle federal charges that it deceived users and violated its own privacy policy when it launched a social networking service called Buzz last year. Google triggered a fierce ...

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WASHINGTON — A complaint filed Tuesday with the federal government accuses New York University and Northwestern University of discriminating against blind students by adopting Google e-mail and other programs that aren’t fully compatible with technology that translates written words into ...

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