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With newspapers across the country struggling to pay expenses, pay-walls are going up at more and more of their web sites. These pay-walls require users to pay for online content that they've become accustomed to getting for free. As old institutions buckle down and attempt to restrict access, new...

Internet giant Google once again finds itself on the radar of the European Union's antitrust agency, which now is looking at allegations that the search engine demotes rivals' sites in search results.

Given that unhappy workers are less likely to quit their jobs in a recession, companies may not have much incentive to try and retain them.Officials at Google Inc., however, are trying to deal with the company's brain drain with an algorithm that uses data from employee reviews and promotion and...