GuruNet, the company behind Answers.com and the desktop application that researches keywords over the Web, inked a deal with Google to distribute its AdSense contextual advertisements and share resulting revenue.
GuruNet said it would serve the text ads, which have turned Google into an ad revenue powerhouse, on its 1 million online topic pages. The site also launched an Answers.com search results page that uses the Google search engine.
Google creates an animated doodle that features a boy, a girl, Google's search engine, and a jump rope. But might there be darker, more analytical, more troubling interpretations to this tale?
The Silicon Valley online payments startup grew by 1,000 percent last year and is hopeful it can repeat that level of growth this year. To do that, it's had to move away from its early friends-and-family roots and embrace small businesses.
Chamtech's spray-on antenna uses a nano material to provide a low-power boost to antenna range. The wireless-in-a-can product may some day bring an end to unsightly cell towers.
EnerG2 opens a plant to make an engineered carbon that will improve performance of energy storage devices and make storage for start-stop hybrid cars less expensive.
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