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  Why Google may
  want Yelp

  Expect mostly positive reviews of Google's potential interest in Yelp, one of the best sources of information about local businesses on the Internet.
  • Yelpers: What of a Google buyout?
  • Google said to be eyeing Yelp

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  Green tech finds a friend in Washington

  year in review Governments at home and abroad have been promoting clean energy innovation to improve economic competitiveness.

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• Undersea robot captures rare deep-sea eruption

  Scientists get an up-close (and high-def) look at molten lava and billowing ash in the deepest underwater volcanic eruption ever seen.

  (Posted in Cutting Edge by Jennifer Guevin)

• Psystar closes up shop

  The Florida company was ordered by a federal judge to stop selling Mac clones earlier this week. Now the Web site is inaccessible.

  (Posted in Circuit Breaker by Erica Ogg)

• California solar outfit Solyndra files to go public

  The start-up, which secured a large loan from DOE to make its solar arrays for commercial buildings, looks to raise $300 million to fund expansion of second factory.

  (Posted in Green Tech by Martin LaMonica)

• Mozilla hopes to finish Thunderbird 3.1 in April

  The updated e-mail software, code-named Lanikai, should arrive in April and could get an ability to show useful information about folders and other e-mail activity.

  (Posted in Deep Tech by Stephen Shankland)

• Visual Studio launch delayed by 'a few weeks'

  Microsoft says it's still working to resolve some performance issues related to the Visual Studio 2010 developer tool suite, which was slated for a March release.

  (Posted in Beyond Binary by Ina Fried)

• Week in review: A matter of antitrust

  Microsoft and Intel focus on antitrust issues, while Microsoft shutters site over code theft. Also: the Google phone.

  (Posted in Business Tech by Steven Musil)

• Bluetooth 4.0 goes low-power for sensors

  New version of the wireless technology targets low-energy applications in the health care, fitness, and security markets.

  (Posted in Wireless by David Meyer)

• Google loses French copyright case

  In copyright infringement case, Paris court orders the search giant to pay $430,000 to French publisher La Martiniere for publishing extracts of its books.

  (Posted in Digital Media by Lance Whitney)

• iTunes U breaks 100 million downloads

  The iTunes Store's higher-education channel, which launched in 2007, has hit a milestone, Apple says. A download leader: the United Kingdom's Open University.

  (Posted in Apple by Jim Dalrymple)

• Facebook to hold spring F8 dev conference

  After not holding one of its F8 conferences--which typically host a major product launch--this year, it'll be returning to San Francisco in the spring.

  (Posted in The Social by Caroline McCarthy)

• Sex, porn, Jacko top kids' searches in 2009

  Other top searches for kids under 18 included YouTube, Google, and Facebook, according to Symantec service. Michael Jackson was the most searched-for celebrity.

  (Posted in Digital Media by Lance Whitney)

• Google's top antitrust defender: 'It's fun'

  Life at Google is certainly different than government service for senior competition counsel Dana Wagner, but his past and present collide on a daily basis at the search giant.

  (Posted in Relevant Results by Tom Krazit)

• Japanese robot helps out with grocery shopping

  A prototype robot called Robovie II is deployed to a supermarket in Kyoto to help seniors with their groceries. The machine can make food recommendations.

  (Posted in Crave by Tim Hornyak)
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