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Reuters - Social networking company Facebook recently held acquisition talks with Twitter, the micro-blogging company, the Financial Times said.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Blockbuster Inc on Monday said it would roll out a new digital media player that brings fewer, but more recent titles from the internet to consumers' televisions than a six-month old offering from rival Netflix Inc.

The chat start-up is the latest video syndication partner for the record label, which will in turn use "Meebo Rooms" on artist fan pages.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Consumers who rely on the user-edited Web resource Wikipedia for information on medications are putting themselves at risk of potentially harmful drug interactions and adverse effects, new research shows.

(Reuters) - Social networking company Facebook recently held acquisition talks with Twitter, the micro-blogging company, the Financial Times said.

TELSTRA will retrench over 100 staff in its enterprise and government group as it moves to consolidate its customer care centres.

Human flesh search engines, the term used in China to describe cyber-mobs that unite to exact their own brand of Web justice, are growing in popularity.

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The search powerhouse was a little more powerful in October, Nielsen's statistics show, but search overall dipped in October in the U.S.

Market researcher comScore reports e-commerce takes a hit in November, marking its first annual decline since consumers learned how to fill their online shopping carts, according to a report in the New York Times.