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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Few Internet entrepreneurs practice what they preach as devoutly as LinkedIn Corp. co-founder Reid Hoffman, whose business revolves around his belief that good fortune flows from good relationships.Hoffman, 40, has put that principle to work by mining his own vast network of [...]

NEW YORK — To plan an upcoming hike in the Alps, John Higham scoured scores of photos plotted along his route on a digital map for clues to the steepness of trails and the availability of accommodations or camp sites.These images were just like all the [...]

WASHINGTON — Federal regulators said they will try again to test prototypes on Jan. 24 for transmitting high-speed Internet service over unused television airwaves.Late Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission said the devices - developed by Adaptrum Inc., Microsoft Corp., Motorola Inc. and Philips Electronics North America [...]

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Google Inc.’s philanthropic arm is making more than $26 million in new grants and investments in organizations and companies devoted to causes that the Internet search leader believes will help make the world a better place.The financial commitments announced Thursday are the [...]

SAN FRANCISCO — Sun Microsystems Inc. plans to buy open-source software maker MySQL AB for $1 billion, beefing up the server maker’s database offerings with a company whose technology is used by some of the world’s biggest Web sites.Sun, in a separate announcement before the market [...]