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The other day I really wasn’t paying much attention to the AM news station in my car until I heard a commercial for a web-based company imaginatively branded Reputation.com . I got to wondering about this kind of service, and when I typed “reputation management” into a search engine I was taken aback to see more than 10 million results

Several investors, including some notable celebrities, are banking on the spam-free search engine to compete against Bing, Yahoo, and Google. Upstart search engine Blekko has closed a $30 million funding round in its quest to be the spam-free Google. Yandex, the most popular search engine in Russia, has invested $15 million and promised to share its servers and other technology

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Over the past few weeks, Facebook users saw a spectacular deal advertised by gadget site Dealzon.com: an iPad 2, for only $11.37.

A rare randomized study on Facebook by MIT shows how different marketing strategies perform. Brands can increase the number of people who install their Facebook apps by 400% through a combination of private and newsfeed messaging, according to a new MIT study.

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Syrian democracy activists on Twitter have found themselves threatened and spammed by mystery accounts. Now one prominent opposition figure claims the Syrian government may be involved. Protests in Syria are getting intense