SAN FRANCISCO — Investors are clamoring to connect with the online networking service LinkedIn Corp. in the latest sign of the fervor for Internet companies that specialize in bringing together people with common interests. The demand to buy a piece ...

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SAN FRANCISCO — Imagine using your Xbox and switching from a game to a video chat with a faraway friend holding an iPad. Or going into your office email to invite Grandma to a virtual family reunion beamed on TV ...

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SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook is influencing what news gets read online as people use the Internet’s most popular hangout to share and recommend content. That’s one of the key findings from a study on the flow of traffic to the ...

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More than 2 billion people across the globe have Internet access and there are some 5 billion mobile-phone subscriptions, according to the 2010 Human Rights Report released this month by the U.S. Department of State. As we saw in Tunisia ...

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Scores of websites and Internet services like Foursquare and Reddit are down or have limited availability because of problems at a data center run by Amazon.com. The problems reveal widespread reliance on Amazon Web Services, which rents out computers and ...

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WASHINGTON — Level 3 Communications Inc. said Monday that it is buying Global Crossing Ltd. for $2 billion, joining two major long-distance telecommunications networks that carry massive amounts of Internet and other data traffic in the U.S. and internationally. Both ...

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WASHINGTON — Government officials are letting Google Inc. proceed with its $700 million purchase of airline fare tracker ITA Software, but are imposing significant conditions on the deal. The purchase will establish the Internet search giant as a key player ...

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Despite heavy lobbying by city boosters, Baltimore was not picked as the beta site for the Google Fiber high-speed, broadband project. Baltimore had been one of 1,100 cities vying to be picked by the Mountain View, Calif.-based company to be ...

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Ever since I worked in the National Park System in college, I’ve been a bit of a “greenie” environmentalist. To clarify, there are a couple types of environmentalists out there: There are environmental scientists, and then there are greenies — ...

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COLLEGE PARK — The University of Maryland will hold a cybersecurity seminar next month made possible by a sponsorship from Google. The university announced Tuesday that the series will begin with a talk by Vint Cerf, one of the Internet’s ...

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