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LG, Sharp and Chunghwa have pled guilty to charges of fixing the price of LCD panels in defiance of the Sherman Antitrust Act and have agreed to pay $585 million in fines, the Justice Department said Wednesday. LG will pay $400 million, the second-highest criminal fine ever imposed by the DOJ's Antitrust Division. Sharp will pay $120 million and Chunghwa Picture Tubes Ltd, a Taiwanese manufacturer, will pay $65 million.read more

Reuters - Google Inc said on Thursday it is launching a new feature to help businesses that use its Site Search service to instantly incorporate and update new Web pages in the latest phase of its expansion into business services.

"Cloud computing offers great promise by having third parties deliver the computing resources needed to run applications as an on-demand service, with a lot of the IT infrastructure invisible to the user," said Bill Coleman, chairman and CEO of Cassatt Corp. "However, at this point most IT professionals are not comfortable outsourcing the mission-critical parts of their sensitive internal applications to an external cloud provider. They are concerned about availability, vendor lock-in, not having the control they need, and having to rebuild these applications from scratch with proprietary tools running on provider-specific platforms."read more

NewsFactor - In another move to gain traction in the enterprise, Google on Thursday launched a new feature to help businesses that use its Site Search service instantly add and update Web pages.

AP - Microsoft Corp. said Thursday that paying people to use its internet search engine is attracting new consumers, although there is little evidence that those people are making a habit of it.

PC Magazine - Google on Thursday launched an on-demand indexing feature in its Site Search hosted platform that will allow customers to index their Web sites at any time.

AP - Sina.com Corp., a popular Chinese Web portal, said Thursday its quarterly profit rose 28 percent on strong advertising revenue and coverage of the Beijing Olympics despite slowing Chinese economic growth.

AP - Facing more pressure to profit from its huge audience, YouTube is letting advertisers promote their commercial clips alongside the search results at the internet's most popular video site.

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