Microsoft Corp. is in talks to buy DoubleClick Inc., the Internet advertising company owned by private-equity firm Hellman & Friedman LLC, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday, citing unidentified people familiar with the situation.DoubleClick hired Morgan Stanley to explore its options, including a possible stock-market listing, the Journal said, citing the people, who indicated there [...]

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Employers are increasingly checking out online personal information about candidates when making recruitment decisions.

Net reputations built up through online activities—such as blogging, posting videos to YouTube, or using social networks such as Facebook and MySpace.com—can have a significant effect when applying for a job, according to a report from business social network Viadeo.

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Many owners of Internet addresses face this quandary: Provide your real contact information when you register a domain name and subject yourself to junk or harassment. Or enter fake data and risk losing the name outright.Help may be on the way as a key task force last week endorsed a proposal that would give more [...]

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Skype, a Luxembourg-based VoIP provider, is broadening its portfolio with two new offerings that let users share and sell their expertise online. Skype 3.1 for Windows includes Skype Find, a tool that lets the Skype community list, rate, and review their favorite businesses, and a beta-version of Skype Prime, which helps small businesses and experts [...]

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Media giants NBC Universal and News Corp. on Thursday announced plans to join forces with AOL, MSN, Yahoo and MySpace to form an online video distribution network—taking aim at Google’s popular YouTube operation.The video network, scheduled to debut this summer, will feature full-length programming, movies and clips from at least a dozen television networks and [...]

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Instead of turning to the paper Yellow Pages to find a pizza place, bookstore, or other neighborhood businesses, many people now turn to the Web. As a result, a growing number of businesses use online services such as Google [...]

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Personally, I would be annoyed by this. However, I can see it’s usefulness in certain instances.

For those of you with task lists, there comes a time when your eyes simply scan over the reoccurring items. Whether it is a reminder to eat more fruit, a reminder to call your mother each week, pay bills, whatever.

Well, [...]

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In the last few months Facebook – the social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them – has seen incredible growth in Canada. Much like MySpace here in the US, everyone is talking about Facebook in Canada. At the same time, the social network hi5 has started [...]

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Advertising today is political and your best new idea may come from a small office you maintain halfway around the world. Those are two of the four lessons that ad guru Randall Rothenberg takes from the continued success of the Dove “Real Beauty” campaign (that’s the one with the naked women).

“Say what you will about [...]

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NEW YORK - Wikipedia, the controversial online encyclopedia, is planning to ask its army of faceless Internet editors — known as Wikipedians — to verify their credentials after one of the most prolific of their number was exposed as a fraud.

The online reference work was dealt a serious blow last week as it emerged that [...]

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