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Given Google's increasing centrality to our digital lives, it might shock you to learn that analysts had been rushing to trim down their estimates for the company's earnings in recent months. That was a mistake: Google just delivered second-quarter earnings that sent its shares skyrocketing.

We've all been told that a requirement of success now is a four-year college degree, at the very minimum. But Peter Thiel disagrees. That idea, says the PayPal co-founder, is so 20th century, that the self-made billionaire plans to award cash grants of $100,000 to college students -- if they'll...

You put locks on your doors and codes on your bank account, so when you travel, you should be just as crafty in protecting your money. From "dummy wallets" to a secret weapon that comes with a key, keep your hard-earned cash safe on the road with these tips. Click to watch.

Southwest just launched a three-day fare sale that has cheap flights as low as $59 one way. Today also, JetBlue launched a one day sale with one-way prices as low as $29. Buy your Southwest tickets by Oct. 7, 2010 (though the best fares will sell out sooner) and travel through Dec. 14, 2010. These...

The Walt Disney Company's (DIS) Internet chief resigned following a difficult tenure that included several shifts in strategy. Steve Wadsworth, president of the Disney Interactive Media Group, resigned last night, The New York Times reported. Sponsored Links "I have been thinking about this...

What do you like? That's the question Facebook and other websites ask, or will soon, every time you visit. In a quest to make it easier to share the things you like with your social network and to know everything you like on the web the Facebook Like button is now showing up on popular websites...

We don't go to movies alone, we don't watch our favorite teams alone and most of us don't even watch Lost alone; so why do we continue to watch our online videos alone? That's an issue that Qlipso, a new social-focused web company, wants to fix. Qlipso made news recently by buying popular...

Facebook is expected to go public this year, and sources in Silicon Valley say the fast-growing social-networking company is anticipating a blockbuster. But could such speculation be premature? Indeed it could. A few days ago, word surfaced that Facebook's semi-stealth share buyback was...

I love to try new foods and brands at the grocery store, but I really hate it when I end up with something disgusting. Since I'm cheap I usually keep it around while I try and think of a new way to use the item but eventually it just gets pitched. Zeer.com is helping fill this void with a grocery...

The BBC is reporting on a new drug which sounds like it could fit into the plot of a villain in the old time Batman TV series. The drug is a nasal spray of oxytocin, which increases how much we trust strangers! The drug apparently has a true calling for those with social phobias as research has...