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The MyVoice app offers up location-based searchable phrases and helps users easily navigate social situations.

1. Late yesterday the maker's of many a student's favorite pocket calculator, Texas Instruments, said it would buy chip-maker National Semiconductor.

A new way of understanding the structure of proteins, polymers, minerals, and engineered materials will be published in the May 2011 issue of the journal Nature Materials. The discovery by two Penn State University researchers is a new type of symmetry in the structure of materials, which the researchers say greatly expands the possibilities for discovering or designing materials with desired properties. The research is expected to have broad relevance in many development efforts involving physical, chemical, biological, or engineering disciplines including, for example, the search for advanced ferroelectric ferromagnet materials for next-generation ultrasound devices and computers

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

Last year, Google launched Buzz , a social network "built right into Gmail, so you don't have to peck out an entirely new set of friends from scratch," boasted the search giant. "Buzz brings this network to the surface by automatically setting you up to follow the people you email and chat with the most…[and] building an easy-to-use sharing experience that richly integrates photos, videos and links, and makes it easy to share publicly or privately." Much to Google's dismay, Buzz turned out to be a huge bust, and not only because it was incredibly unpopular among users. The social network was riddled with privacy concerns, so much so that the Federal Trade Commission charged the company with using "deceptive tactics" and violating "its own privacy promises to consumers." Today, Google settled with the FTC.

Google 's just improved its Google Commerce Search powers, giving online retailers a richer interface to offer online consumers trying find the right goods. Google says it's "building on the capabilities that have proved useful to" its retail partners, with a new system that will "help create an even more interactive and engaging experience for shoppers and retailers." Google even toots its own horn a little, noting that when sites like BabyAge incorporated Commerce Search it resulted in a 64% increase in site searches--an indicator that customers are spending more time digging through the site, and have a better chance of actually buying products rather than bailing

We branded it the Great Search Engine War of 2011 , when Google launched an all-out attack on Microsoft's Bing , accusing its arch-nemesis of copying search results. After several months, however, it's unclear what impact the war has had on Microsoft. Has Bing been planning a response?

Illustrations by Ron Kurniawan The Boy King: Larry Page served as CEO during Google's startup days. | Photograph by Paul Sakuma/AP How new CEO Larry Page will lead the company he co-founded into the future. Tarsorrhaphy.

Shepherds of the web, from execs at Firefox to directors at Internet Explorer , have heralded HTML5 as the future of the Internet. Simply put, HTML5 is the latest revision to HTML, the core coding language of the web and the backbone of the Internet.

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We continue our examination of the business book In Search of Excellence with an interview of author Tom Peters. Why was it so successful, what is the book's legacy and what does a restaurant owner in Chicago have in common with Jack Welch? What was the impetus for you to write In Search of Excellence

In the clearest language to date, Democratic Senator Herb Kohl of Wisconsin signaled heavy scrutiny of Google coming in 2011. An antitrust showdown between the U.S

A controversial web-design company that served scores of small businesses and left many unhappy customers in its wake has closed its doors. Employees from HIT Web Design, a full-service web design and web hosting company in Provo, Utah, were seen carrying boxes out of the company's headquarters on Tuesday, the Deseret News reported . Founded as Heritage Web Solutions in 1999, the company hit No

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales and CultofMac.com editor Leander Kahney discuss Google, content farms, and Demand Media (plus a personal account of how the tweaked algorithm almost ruined Kahney's business) in our latest edition of The Cold Call. Welcome to another edition of Cold Call , where we zing a question to our favorite CEOs, entrepreneurs, VCs, and tech evangelists to see how they answer--and how you'd respond.

This year DonorsChoose.Org made our list of The Most Innovative Companies . We speak to CEO Charles Best on how he applies a "best of breed e-commerce" approach to transforming public education.