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Talking Business: On Day Care, Google Makes a Rare Fumble
A battle between employees and their company over in-house day care may be representative of greater changes at Google.
Consortium Rescues Bell Canada Takeover
A private equity and pension fund consortium said it salvaged a record $52 billion deal for Bell Canada on Friday by postponing its closing date and canceling dividend payments.
Bits: What Is Facebook Worth? (Part 37)
A document in the settled Facebook vs. ConnectU litigation reveals that Facebook’s common shares are worth a quarter of the value of the stock Microsoft purchased when it invested in the social network.
Bits: Google Changes Home Page, Adding Link to Privacy Policy
The move brings Google into clear compliance with a California law that requires many Web sites to have a link to their privacy policy on their home page.
Energy Star for Servers May Be Ready by Year-End
The E.P.A. expects to introduce its first Energy Star rating for servers by the end of the year, although a more comprehensive system that measures actual workloads will take longer to develop.
Bits: A Sucker Is Converted Every Minute
Those ads for the free digital TV signal converter box? Beware.
Bits: Justice Looks Further at Google-Yahoo Deal
The Justice Department’s antitrust division has begun issuing subpoenas as it probes further into whether a planned Google-Yahoo partnership in search advertising is anticompetitive.
Cyberfamilias: See Spot Run. Now Find Out Where He Went.
This summer, a new generation of pocket-size gadgets offer anyone willing to spend $129.99 or more a way to use the Global Positioning System to track the people, pets and possessions they love.
Business Briefing | Acquisitions: Vodafone Acquires Majority Stake of Ghana Telecom
The Vodafone Group said it had agreed to acquire a 70 percent stake in Ghana Telecom, the African country’s third-largest mobile phone operator, for $900 million.
Google Told to Turn Over User Data of YouTube
The order raised concerns that the online video viewing habits of tens of millions of people could be exposed.