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The reception desk is shown at Google's New York offices on Thursday, Jan. 31, 2008. Google Inc. says Microsoft Corp. could use its proposed $42 billion acquisition of Yahoo Inc. to gain illegal control over the Internet, underscoring the online search leader's queasiness about its two biggest rivals teaming up. Google Inc.
An Indian woman labourer carries stones on a construction site at a railway station in New Delhi, 18 February 2007. Whilst India's economy has undergone a substantial transformation since independence in 1947, women still suffer high levels of wage discrimination in the Indian urban labour market India
MUNICH, GERMANY - JANUARY 24: Joseph Vardi, Jimmy Wales, Niklas Zennstroem and Mitchell Baker attend the Digital Life Design (DLD) conference at HVB Forum on January 24, 2010 in Munich, Germany. DLD brings together global leaders and creators from the digital world. Jimmy Wales
In this photo released by China's Xinhua news agency, fireworks explode over the People's Square in Giuyang, capital of southwest China's Guizhou Province early Sunday, Feb. 18, 2007, the New Year's Day on China's lunar calendar. China
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, suffering from a tennis injury, arrives in a wheelchair to the National Governors Association winter meeting in Washington, Sunday, Feb. 21, 2010. U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer speaks in Santa Clara, Calif., Tuesday, March 2, 2010. Ballmer intends to keep the regulatory heat on Google as his company strives to lessen its rival's dominance of Internet search. Microsoft Corporation
NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 23: Google founders Larry Page (R) and Sergey Brin (L) speak at a press conference announcing Google's launch of a new transit mapping feature of Google Maps with the Metropolitan Transit Authority at Grand Central Station on September 23, 2008 in New York City. Users searching for driving directions will also be given the choice of public transportation directions. Sergey Brin
Melinda French Gates, of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, joins with Univision Communications Inc., to announce a national education initiative to boost academic achievement among Hispanic students from kindergarten through high school, Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2010, during an event at the National Press Club in Washington. Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Former President Bill Clinton, right, and Bill Gates, testify on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 10, 2010, before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on global health. William Gates III
President Barack Obama, right, speaks as Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., left, listens during a fundraiser for Bennet in Denver, Thursday, Feb. 18, 2010. Michael Bennet
In this image obtained via Twitter astronaut Soichi Noguchi aboard the International Space Station posted this image showing the Sahara Desert, the first view out of the cupola's windows on the observation deck of the the Tranquility module station early Wednesday morning Feb. 17, 2010. Twitter Inc
New York Times best-selling authors and syndicated radio hosts Rick and Bubba talk about their favorite subject - food - in their new book, Rick and Bubba's Big Honkin' Book of Grub. Where "the two sexiest fat men alive" eat, what they eat and their favorite family recipes. New York Times Company
Toronto Maple Leafs general manager Brian Burke, left, serves a hot dog to 7-year-old Mason Dietrich, from Waterloo, Ontario, before the Maple Leafs' NHL hockey season opener against the Montreal Canadiens in Toronto on Thursday, Oct. 1, 2009. Brian Burke
LAS VEGAS - JANUARY 08: The Nokia N900 phone is displayed at the 2010 International Consumer Electronics Show at the Las Vegas Convention Center January 8, 2010 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The company says the device lets people use it like a desktop computer with PC-style multitasking and browsers, including Firefox, that are the same as a desktop interface. The N900 has a five megapixel camera with a dual LED flash as well as video and full Skype and chat capabilities. It selss for about USD 468. CES, the world's largest annual consumer technology tradeshow, runs through January 10 and is expected to feature 2,500 exhibitors showing off their latest products and services to about 110,000 attendees. Mozilla Firefox
Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer speaks during the launch of EduNxt, a Technology infused Learning System for distributed learning in India, in Mumbai, India, Tuesday, May 12, 2009. The distance learning platform is being provided by Manipal Education in partnership with Microsoft, BSNL, and netbook OEM. Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited
Denver players celebrate after a 4-2 victory over Michigan Tech in an NCAA college hockey game to win the teams' first-round playoff series in Denver on Saturday, March 13, 2010. Denver

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