Don’t accuse Amazon.com of making empty threats. Just days ago, the online retail giant warned its affiliates in North Carolina that it could end its relationship with them over sales tax legislation in that state. Today, Amazon carried through on that threat, officially cutting off those affiliates because the tax bill in question is poised [...]

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Earlier this week, we told you about Dendreon’s plans to spend $50 million to upgrade its New Jersey manufacturing and lab facility. Well, the Seattle biotechnology company — which is on the verge of commercializing its prostate cancer treatment, Provenge — also has some ambitious expansion plans for its hometown.
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"Introducing Bing, the better way to Google." That’s how the folks at CollegeHumor start out this humorous parody of Microsoft’s new search engine.
more  and Microsoft plans to fold enthusiast sites into overhauled ‘Channel 9′  
The internal group responsible for "evangelizing" Microsoft’s technologies plans to phase out its standalone Channel 8 website for students and Channel 10 [...]

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GUATEMALA CITY — Jean Anleu was so fed up with corruption in his country that he decided to vent on the Internet, sending a 96-character message on the social-networking site Twitter., more 

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