Wow, haven't heard of anything like this before.

Quoted: The exchange raised Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people )'s closing price to $400.52 - a 5 percent gain for the day - and canceled all trades below that amount and above $425.29 between 3:57 p.m. and 4:02 p.m. EDT.

MSNBC has shown some nice growth.

Quoted: Its growth rate of 10 percent over the last two years is far slower than those of most other large news Web sites. In the last two years, second-ranked MSNBC.com grew by 42 percent, adding 10.4 million users. Traffic at CNN.com and nytimes.com grew even faster.

Quoted: Google is down $35 a share to around $451 and continues to be under pressure. Why? comScore came out with January U.S. paid search data and it doesn’t look good. Google’s sponsored clicks were down 7 percent month-over-month, effectively flat year-over-year and down 12 percent quarter-over-quarter.

Quoted: Among other things, he created and ran its payment service, Google Checkout, as well as Google SMS, which delivers search services via text messages to cellphones. Ling will be heading the Facebook platform, the software architecture upon which the popular social network is built.

Viacom is suing Google. Google is calling on Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert?!?

Quoted: Comedians Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, whose programs were once among the most viewed on YouTube, were requested by the video site to give testimony in legal proceedings as it fights a $1 billion lawsuit by Viacom Inc, according to court filings.

I was expecting something like this.

Quoted: Microsoft contends that Google’s $3.1 billion deal to buy DoubleClick would hurt competition in the online advertising market.

redotted from pullman.

Quoted: The biggest windfalls went to YouTube’s three founders and its main financial backer, Sequoia Capital.

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