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The longtime VP tells us how a simple call for a pizza delivery influences the company's thinking on local products and searching. Yesterday Google introduced a new feature for its Google Places pages: Business Photos , which essentially brings Street View into the interiors of businesses.

Emily White offers further validation that the secret sauce in the deals space isn't savings. It's sharing and serendipity.

As debates begin, the facial coding experts at Sensory Logic examine the looks of the Republican hopefuls--Mitt Romney, Michele Bachmann, Newt Gingrich, and Donald Trump among them--already emerging as potential nominees in the 2012 Presidential election. Here, a guide to what emotional reactions--and votes--their faces are likely to garner

The likely Republican candidates might not be saying much about their candidacies just yet. But, as the saying goes, the medium is the message

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.

Content farms scored a win in the battle against Google's anti-spam search algorithms today as Demand Media, the company behind eHow , Cracked , and Livestrong , announced a quarterly revenue of $79.5 million--up 48% from the same quarter last year. Demand also reported a 32% increase in pageviews on owned and operated websites, but this doesn't mean that the company can rest easy quite yet.

We all know they are selling like hotcakes.

The new conferencing system will get you up to speed so fast you can pick up the thread of the meeting even as it drones on, and on, and on... Do you have low-grade narcolepsy, or a low threshold for boredom

Microsoft is slinging some mud to stick up for its Office franchise. Tom Rizzo, senior director of Microsoft Online Services, wrote in a blog post that Google apps come with an expensive hidden tax , like the bulk of an iceberg hidden beneath a serene ocean surface, and Windows netbooks are better than MacBook Airs. He even posted this handy, pithy infographic.

Intel has revealed a radical transistor design called 3-D Tri-Gate that it will use in its upcoming Ivy Bridge CPUs. Great news for tech geeks, but what does that string of code words mean for your gadgets?

A program in Washington, D.C. is bribing people to move from the suburbs to downtown.

Wondering what it's like to explore Osama Bin Laden's now famous compound? Google Earth Blog points us to the Google 3D Warehouse , where a number of 3D modelers have taken it upon themselves to sketch up Bin Laden's home--in both serious and amusing detail. Once you've found a model you like, you can view it in Google Earth and feel even more like you're wandering around Pakistan.

Google exec Marissa Mayer talked at a conference Wednesday about how the company has changed--and hasn't--under recently installed CEO Larry Page. Longtime Google executive Marissa Mayer was asked at a conference on Wednesday what had changed, now that Larry Page has moved into the CEO spot.

Who says to innovate, you have to pile on more technology? Sometimes a personal touch is the game-changer