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Toshiba announced today it is launching a social business network called eXCHANGE, aimed at connecting its sales, service, administrative and corporate employees in the U.S. Toshiba says eXCHANGE is similar to other social networks, such as Facebook, LinkedIN or MySpace and it will offer members an online forum to share and seek information, including best sales practices, user generated information and product tips.

AOL's MapQuest has partnered with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children to launch a new widget on MapQuest Local that includes missing child alerts and information from NCMEC.

CareerBuilder has announced it has launched BrightFuse.com a social networking site geared towards professionals. To clarify CareerBuilder originally launched BrightFuse in February 2008, but in its announcement it does not mention this detail. Murdok contacted CareerBuilder for a comment but did not receive a response before publication.

Today Google announced two new tools for Enterprise Search - Side-By-Side search comparison and new connectors for the Google Search Appliance. Both of these features are available in Google Enterprise Labs. Side-By-Side Search Comparison

International police organization INTERPOL announced today it has launched a website featuring a database of global stolen artwork. The move is part of the agency's effort to combat the illicit trade of stolen artwork.

If you're a blogger with WordPress.com, you'll be happy to learn that you now have the capability to shorten your URL's within Wordpress.com with the new WP.me service. You can see an example of a WP.me link below. Original http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2009/08/14/shorten/ Shortend Version http://wp.me/sf2B5-shorten

Google has introduced a new search ads quality "getting started" guide. The guide addresses frequently asked questions from users and offers additional tips about how to improve ad quality.

Click Forensics has introduced a new traffic quality dashboard aimed at helping ad networks and publishers pinpoint good and bad online advertising traffic sources. The dashboard is designed to help manage downstream publishers and affiliates and adjust online traffic sources and campaigns to improve quality and performance goals.