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  'Captain America' Wins Worldwide Rock Paper Scissors Competition

  By Kathy Ehrich Dowd | Wed Nov 18, 2009 12:26 PM ET

  he hunkered down and focused in on his final opponent, who happened to be his best friend, Tom Buskin. Tensions were high at the eighth annual Yahoo! Rock Paper Scissors World Championship in Toronto Saturday, and all eyes were on Conrad and Buskin as they leaned in for the final set of th Read More

  More like this in: China, Mexico, Michigan, Detroit, Toronto, US, World, Life & Style, Americas
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  MSN Redesign Hits the Web

  By Marc Hertz | Wed Nov 4, 2009 8:04 PM ET

  The new homepage is much cleaner and sends a clear message not to count MSN out when it comes to courting new users. Read More

  More like this in: Microsoft, CNET, Technology
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  Sports, School Interests Dominated Web Activity in September

  By Judy Mottl | Tue Oct 20, 2009 2:19 AM ET

  hitting an all-time high. More than 98 million visitors went surfing for sports information, a 14 percent jump over sport fan activity in August. Yahoo! Sports was the top landing place with 38 million visitors, an increase of 32 percent over the prior month. Micro-blog sensation Twitter.co Read More

  More like this in: Google, Facebook, Twitter, eBay, Television, Amazon.com Inc., Technology, Education, Sports
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  The Best Medicine

  By Ben Corbett | Tue Sep 29, 2009 2:20 PM ET

  visitors in 2009.Not surprisingly, ComScore's list showed that most Internet traffic was generated from Google, with 161 million hits, followed by Yahoo! with 150 million, and Microsoft at 130 million. Meanwhile, Facebook didn't budge from its number five position, holding strong as the to Read More

  More like this in: Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Humor, Comedy Central, Business, Technology, Good Ideas, Economy, Retail, Tech Does Good, Cutting-edge
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  Hot Pants

  By Chaniga Vorasarun | Sat Sep 12, 2009 11:55 AM ET

  Bangladesh's prime minister says no to suits and ties. Read More

  More like this in: Energy, Economy, Air Conditioning, Bangladesh, Shortages, World, Business, Life & Style, Asia, Fashion
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  Palm Steps Up Smartphone Fight With a Pixi Punch

  By Judy Mottl | Wed Sep 9, 2009 8:05 PM ET

  possible.And it's very, very friendly. Just consider all the built-in integration into social networking applications, including Facebook and now Yahoo! and even LinkedIn. Even the handset design comes with pizazz. The Palm Pixi Artist Series is a numbered, limited-edition series that let Read More

  More like this in: Facebook, iPhone, Social Networking, BlackBerry, Technology, Gadgets
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  Bring On the Pink Slips

  By Lisa Germinsky | Tue Sep 1, 2009 8:40 AM ET

  becoming a casualty of Yahoo's mass layoffs last December. Just days back from maternity leave and out of a job, Rubin was at a loss. Fortunately, Yahoo! provided outplacement services, so she started some entrepreneurship classes. But the former online news producer had an idea brewing eve Read More

  More like this in: New York City, Recession, Brooklyn, Entrepreneurship, Breast-feeding, Business, Good Ideas, Economy, Employment
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  A Penny for Your (Spam Free) Thoughts?

  By Steve Tanner | Tue Aug 18, 2009 9:00 AM ET

  Would you pay one cent for every e-mail sent if it resulted in the end of spam as we know it? Yahoo researchers think so. Read More

  More like this in: Technology, Niger, Filters, Technology, Tech Does Good
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  Microsoft Can Win the Seach Engine Race by Doing "Good"

  By Judy Mottl | Tue Aug 11, 2009 11:23 AM ET

  The battle to beat Google at search comes down to one simple strategy: give users the rare, and free, chance to give back. Read More

  More like this in: Microsoft, Google, Philanthropy, Wall Street Journal, Random Acts of Kindness, Steve Ballmer, Technology, Social Responsibility, Tech Does Good, Giving
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  Searching for Good

  By Marc Hertz | Thu Jul 23, 2009 1:00 PM ET

  The site lists the charities it helps and asks users which other causes they should support. The search engine combines results from Google, Yahoo!, Bing and Ask, all of which happen to be well-placed on the list of top search engines, according to comScore. I don't know enough abou Read More

  More like this in: Google, Technology, Bing, Firefox, Search Engines, Ask.com, Technology, Social Responsibility, Tech Does Good, Fundraising