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IAC CEO Barry Diller discusses whether Citysearch may acquire other local Web sites

On the Call: IAC CEO Barry Diller

Besides being hampered by weakness in the online advertising market, IAC/InterActiveCorp's Web-based city guide, Citysearch, is facing increasing competition from a rising tide of social review and recommendation sites. These include review site Yelp, which is seen as its biggest rival in the business-review space.

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Battle over fate of W.Va.’s Coal River Mountain may be shown to world leaders in December

World climate-change forum may touch on W.Va. mine

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Environmental activists who want West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin to stop Massey Energy's blasting plans for the Coal River Mountain say the world is watching, and they plan to add pressure with a Google Earth tour created for a United Nations climate-change conference.

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Energy breakthroughs could be the next big thing, but how many jobs can they generate?

Where's the next boom? Maybe in 'cleantech'

SAN FRANCISCO — Our economy sure could use the Next Big Thing. Something on the scale of railroads, automobiles or the Internet — the kind of breakthrough that emerges every so often and builds industries, generates jobs and mints fortunes.

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Is the market recovering? Reports from NY, Washington, London and more

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Enter Charity 2.0 with Social Networking sites, but aren’t there tiring too many already?

Charities see potential, risk with social networks

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — Meredith Bowen was getting tired of requests from Facebook friends to exchange make-believe pansies, daffodils and tiny cartoon characters for her "(Lil) Green Patch," a virtual garden that sprouted on her social-networking page about a year ago.

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