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A public digital forum in every book is the Dutch startup Openmargin's aim. It even thinks it can make money at it.

Consumer Reports, not necessarily a fan of the iPhone 4, has reacted to news it's slightly thicker than its older black sibling. Spoiler: It's really not

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Right now I am staring at a message that has been haunting me for weeks, hovering dangerously at the top of my Gmail inbox.

New data suggests something surprising: Microsoft's dominance of the computer game is still in place, but it's slipping. It's losing its browser lead, too.

Research in Motion tries to improve its smartphone game, following a series of dismal announcements. Research in Motion, makers of the BlackBerry, need a Hail Mary pass. Its sales are dropping; a few week ago, it put out dismal numbers

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Last year, the Corn Refiners Association decided that the term "high fructose corn syrup" just didn't have same catchy ring to it as "sugar." The solution: re-brand HFCS as "corn sugar" and launch a marketing blitz to educate the public about the wonders of this freshly named, all-natural product. Now sugar farmers are fighting back to reclaim their good name--even though it has recently been tarnished .

And other stories about how the news of Al Qaeda’s leader’s passing ping-ponged around the web and social media, from BNO News to George W. Bush. It was one of the most tweeted--but not the single most tweeted--events, Twitter tells us.

Machine readable congressional transcripts will bring the power to find political gaffes to everyone. Forget leaked cables: there's enough juicy political nonsense lurking in the public record to satisfy the 24-hour news cycle until 2012

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I’ll never forget a conversation I had 15 years ago with paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould.

Here's the first interactive word cloud we've seen that captures the sense of the Internet as a living, breathing thing. They first caught our attention last week, during the royal wedding--which is saying something. "How does Twitter see the Royal Wedding?" asked The Guardian over at its data blog, and it answered the question with an interactive image featuring most-used words on Twitter--Kate, William, watching, moment, and so on

Each day, Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here's what we found today. Stocks set to rise after Bin Laden's fall.

The geopolitical ramifications are, of course, the vastly more important ones, but the world economy shifted slightly last night as word of Osama Bin Laden's death hit the airwaves. If the markets are accurate, we're looking at world where there is less unrest in the Middle East, and, generally, less of a chance of everything coming completely apart at the seams.