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Google’s stock snapped out of its recent funk Tuesday after new data showed the Internet search leader is becoming even more dominant in the most lucrative part of the online advertising market. Internet research firms comScore and Nielsen Online both said the volume of search requests at Google has climbed substantially over the past year while rivals Yahoo and Microsoft are losing market share. The statistics, based on October search activity, bode well for Google’s fourth-quarter revenue.

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Google Investors Cheer Search Ad Market Reports

Apple is facing two more legal challenges against the iPhone. Los Angeles-based
EMG Technology filed a suit in the U.S. District Court in Texas claiming that the iPhone infringes on a patent approved last month by the Patent and Trademark Office. The patent is for an “apparatus and method of manipulating a region on a wireless device screen for viewing, zooming and scrolling Internet content.” In another case, an iPhone 3G user is seeking class status to sue for $5 million in restitution from Apple, claiming that the iPhone 3G does not perform as advertised.

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Litigants Lob More Lawsuits at Apple

I have in my hot little hand a two-page handout that I got at the recently concluded Dreamforce 2008 event in San Francisco. With all the excitement about the election and the economy, as well as this day job I have, I had not really taken the time to peruse it. A quick glance a couple of weeks ago told me that the company had added a new color — blue — to its logo, but closer inspection reveals that it isn’t just the color, there’s another logo all together. The title of this document is “Salesforce.com New Branding at a Glance October 2008.”

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Branding a Force

Social networking site Facebook has won an $873 million judgment against Montr

A former TV newsman in Philadelphia who said he felt threatened by his co-anchor’s “rising star” was sentenced Monday to six months of house arrest after hacking into her e-mail and leaking gossip that contributed to her downfall. Larry Mendte, 51, admitted hacking into KYW-TV co-anchor Alycia Lane’s e-mail hundreds of times, both before and after the city’s CBS affiliate fired her in January. “I made my job too important,” Mendte said in court Monday. “In believing that I was protecting the well-being of my children and my family, I put them both in jeopardy.”

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Disgraced Anchor Gets House Arrest for Desperate Hacking Stunt