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TwitterGoogle’s $6 billion bid to buy daily-deal site Groupon has been rejected, according to multiple sources. The proposed acquisition had generated no small amount of controversy in the blogosphere. Some commentators praised the proposed acquisition as a landmark opportunity for Google to enter the local advertising market, which it has had some difficulty doing. Others [...]
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Google’s Groupon Grab Off?
Posted by Micheal Barbrick on December 6th, 2010
WikiLeaks and Amazon Controversy
Posted by Emma Russo on December 3rd, 2010
After a huge recent scandal involving hundreds of thousands of sensitive leaked documents, WikiLeaks was struggling to keep its website up and running Friday once several of the American companies it relied on for hosting refused to continue to do so, the most immediate reason being a week full of attempted attack and infiltration by [...]
Evo Morales calls for international help to extinguish forest fires
Posted by Micheal Barbrick on August 20th, 2010
August 20, 2010-The Control Authority and Social Survey of Forests and Lands emergency declared Bolivia to try to extinguish forest fires caused by indigenous peasants in the area. Bolivia’s President Evo Morales called for help from the neighboring Argentina, Brazil and Chile on Thursday in an attempt to contain the wildfires that have already consumed [...]
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Tags: Amazon, Bolivia, fires, Morales, President Evo, wild fires, wildfires 
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