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A tour through Thomas Edison's famed workshop, plus Apple's bid to convert speech to text, and the rest of today's news.

The SEC reviews rules that ban social network sites from facilitating equity investments, Gilt is valued at $1 billion, and the rest of today's news. Each day, Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here's what we found today

Tech giant acquires the Internet phone service for a staggering $8.5 billion.

Nearly 200 companies are getting ready to go publicthe most since 2000. Plus, why VC's aren't funding B2B start-ups, and the rest of today's news. Each day, Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs

1. Just as Sony confirms it's about to put parts of the PSN back online finally, a hacker group has said it's poised to launch a third wave of digital assault on Sony's online presence as punishment for its weak security. Sony's making moves to offer free ID and hack protection to US users affected by the previous breaches, but a third wave of attacks would be very bad news for Sony--which has already spent plenty of money fixing the earlier ones.

The Fast Company reader's essential source for breaking news and innovation from around the web--updated all day. Wall Street Journal Opens Wikileaks Competitor Conservative media mogul, Rupert Murdoch, is out to give Wikileaks competition with the Wall Street Journal SafeHouse, an anonymous data dump and tip site

Each day, Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs.

The Fast Company reader's essential source for breaking news and innovation from around the web--updated all day. Bad News For AOL And Microsoft Beleaguered former dial-up king AOL continues to suffer, posting a $551 million revenue drop from a year ago--a whopping 17% decrease.

It's possible to subsist almost entirely on items found in Walmart (you can even buy tents if you don't have a home), but there's one product found in a quarter of all American households that most Walmarts don't stock: guns. Until now. Walmart is returning the gun counter to a big chunk of its stores.

The Fast Company reader's essential source for breaking news and innovation from around the web--updated all day. "Google Rumored Preparing $10/Month Chrome OS Laptop Rentals " As soon as this Summer, Google might rent out Chrome OS laptops for a small monthly fee. [Update: 10:30 PM PST] Android Tracking Location Data, Too Those with Android -based smartphones who thought they were safe from Apple's recently discovered location-tracking program should think again

Each day, Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here's what we found today.

Each day, Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here's what we found today

1. RIM's embargo on review editions of its PlayBook tablet expired this morning, so the news is full of expert opinion on the tablet PC RIM hopes will revive its future fortunes

Each day,Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here's what we found today.

The Fast Company reader's essential source for breaking news and innovation from around the web--updated all day.