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Best Buy is shuttering 50 of its big warehouse-style stores and is going to remodel the remaining ones. It's all because the retail landscape is changing, shaped by the power of mobile technology

Ray Ozzie, who took over for Gates in 2006 as Microsoft's chief software architect, drops a few hints about new tech company Cocomo. Ray Ozzie, aka Bill Gates' handpicked successor as Microsoft's chief software architect, has a new start-up.

Ray Ozzie, who took over for Gates in 2006 as Microsoft's chief software architect, drops a few hints about new tech company Cocomo. Ray Ozzie, aka Bill Gates' handpicked successor as Microsoft's chief software architect, has a new start-up

Ray Ozzie, who took over for Gates in 2006 as Microsoft's chief software architect, drops a few hints about new tech company Cocomo. Ray Ozzie, aka Bill Gates' handpicked successor as Microsoft's chief software architect, has a new start-up

Is the northern hairy-nosed wombat (Lasiorhinus krefftii ) the most interesting endangered species in the world? Maybe it is, maybe it isn’t but it has definitely attracted the attention of the Dos Equis beer commercial spokesperson known only as “the Most Interesting Man in the World.” The television advertising icon and Dos Equis have launched an auction for a jar of what they call The Most Interesting Jam a concoction made from ingredients suggested by Facebook fans and supposedly hand-mixed by the Most Interesting Man in the World himself with all proceeds going to benefit the Wombat Foundation, an organization set up to protect the critically endangered northern hairy-nosed wombat.

Feds will launch a probe on Google, a start-up that shows if you've been hacked, a study on how men and women divide their work schedules, and more. Is Google in the doghouse? Federal regulators will be issuing subpoenas to Google, "launching a broad, formal investigation into whether the Internet giant has abused its dominance in Web-search advertising," The Wall Street Journal reports .

California is home to many natural wonders due to its varied climate and topography which includes both forest and costal lands. For the July 6, 1901 issue of Scientific American , author, big-game fisher, and former curator at the American Museum of Natural History Charles F. Holder wrote a piece on some of the interesting and beautiful results of erosion on California’s Southern coast

We have AdGrok to thank for that. The Y Combinator alum is dedicated to making AdWords user-friendly. Google's AdWords, the tool through which businesses advertise in Google searches, is hugely important both to Google (as a major revenue source) and businesses (which often find it a big traffic-driver)