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1. Attention Google --this is what happens when you anger the record labels: Limewire and its former CEO Mark Gorton have agreed to pay $105 million to close a legal suit alleging Limewire encouraged users to share pirated music.

Coal Cares was just a parody of what it would look like if the coal industry targeted kids. But the coal industry's actual marketing to children, (with an assist from Scholastic), is much more insidious.

You've probably never had a burning sensation to tell your friends you just checked in to an STD clinic.

Google's Music Beta system sounds like a great idea from a user point of view--you get almost instant access to your tunes, no matter where you are or which computing platform you're using (the only downside being its gobbling of bandwidth).

"Win the Future," if you're not into the whole brevity thing. He registered it in '06. Then Obama stole it

The Fast Company reader's essential source for breaking news and innovation from around the web--updated all day. Music Sales Up Thanks To Hipsters, Old People Nielson released a piracy apocalypse-busting stat about the music industry: sales are up 1.6% in 2011. Premium content, such as the Beatles' albums , and a 37% surge in vinyl (thank your local hipster, everybody), helped propel a trend for a sector that hasn't always had much to celebrate lately

Earlier this year, the FCC approved the merger of Comcast and NBC with a four to one vote among its panel of commissioners. One of the four commissioners that cast her vote for the merger back in January was Meredith Attwell Baker. Ms.

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

Imagine that you want to send a secret message to your colleague at the CIA. You can encrypt it to prevent counterspies from reading it

States, fearing that more energy-efficient cars mean less money to maintain roads, begin testing a mileage-based tax. I was driving in Minneapolis several weeks ago when I heard on the local radio news that Minnesota would be conducting a study to research whether it made sense for the state to start charging drivers a mileage-based tax

The battle between the Silicon Valley greats isn't typical corporate warfare.

Google has shaken up the computing world with its rentable Chromebooks using its own Chrome OS.

The social network’s small new feature could have a big impact. Yesterday Facebook rolled out a seemingly minor enhancement to their Photos feature.

Will applying the lessons learned making computer chips to solar panels result in really cheap solar power? Solar startups often have impressively big ideas about how they're going to scale up the next revolutionary technology, but few get the job done

Apple and Google testified yesterday before a committee examining smartphone user privacy, particularly regarding location tracking. The first conclusion: Senators don't understand the tech, nor do most people.