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Media groups in Norway and Denmark have begun, like several others before them, to protest Google News's practices. The Norwegian association objects to the reproduction of certain images and photographs, while the Danish faction is asking Google to make separate arrangements with each publisher.

When you're an upstart, it can be extraordinarily difficult to compete with the big guys. Nobody knows that better than Jerry Anders, CTO of Saratoga, Calif.-based Javeo Corporation, who claims his company has been run over not once, but twice-first by Google, and most recently by Sun Microsystems.

Winn-Dixie Stores filed for bankruptcy protection as it faces competition from Wal-Mart Stores.

Google co-founder Sergey Brin told financial analysts yesterday that it has been unable to hire foreign computer engineers as fast as it would like.