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Ever use a site’s “find a store” feature?  It may have been provided by InfoNow, the company with which Microsoft joined up earlier today.  According to an official statement, InfoNow intends to “integrate Microsoft Virtual Earth within its LocationInsight offering.”

Google in early 2006 promised they'll "be making significant and growing investments in China", with their self-censored Google China search engine being "a necessary first step".

A blazing Dell laptop forced workers at Yahoo to leave their workplace while firefighters responded to the scene.

Intel China and the Baidu search engine plan to work closely together to develop search and other web-based applications for Chinese users.

VNU and IMS Health announced that they have decided to merge in a stock and cash transaction, which is valued at about 5.8 billion euros or $7 billion.

AMC Entertainment and Loews Cineplex Entertainment have agreed to merge. The two companies' respective holding companies will also merge with Marquee Holdings continuing as the holding company for the combined entity.

Google's "Summer of Code" has been such a popular program that Google has been forced to double the funding for the program to accept 400 students, reports Slashdot.

Douglas Wood, an Australian contractor captured by Iraqi insurgents, was freed this morning following a raid by the Iraqi army's 2nd battalion, Armored Brigade.