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NEW YORK (AP) -- Authorities in China have approved Google Inc.'s bid to buy phone maker Motorola Mobility, clearing the way for the $12.5 billion deal to close early next week.... - Associated Press - 7 Reads

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- It was one of the best places in the western United States to watch the annular solar eclipse, and people drove for days just to get to this dusty stretch west of Albuquerque.... - Associated Press - 7 Reads

Flush with cash and drunk with power after its $100 billion IPO, Facebook could be caught secretly brainwashing millions of new users into signing up (mind-control hoodies, anyone?) -- and still I might not quit the world's largest social network. - CNN - 6 Reads

Aaron Sorkin, the celebrated screenwriter whose punchy dialogue propelled TV's "The West Wing" and the Facebook movie "The Social Network," will write and direct an upcoming film on the life of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. - CNN - 3 Reads

Friends may be priceless. But 'friending' is worth $38 a share. - CNN - 7 Reads

MOSCOW (AP) -- It was the end of an era, the kind of moment when a Twitter buff might unleash a barrage of 140-character spurts of sentiment, humor or self-aggrandizement.... - Associated Press - 7 Reads

So, let's say you're doing a Google search for "Kings." Did you mean the L.A. hockey team or the Sacramento basketball team? Maybe the TV show? Or maybe you actually wanted to know something about monarchs. - CNN - 3 Reads

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - If "Facebook For Dummies" helped you find friends and post pictures on the world's No. 1 online social network, then consider "Facebook IPO Confidential" which purports to teach you "How To Get Rich With The IPO Of The Century." - Reuters - 36 Reads

It's no shock that people love to hate Facebook. - CNN - 7 Reads

ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- From his tiny, windowless office, George Palamarizis tirelessly chips away at Greece's political establishment.... - Associated Press - 6 Reads