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Reading news articles just became "gamified." With new features on Google News, reading news articles has turned into a game where readers are rewarded with news badges based on their reading habits.

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CNNMoney: Facebook's new plan to recharge burned-out engineersupdated: Wed Apr 27 2011 18:28:00

Do you ever get ground down by your job's never-ending to-do list? So do Facebook engineers. The company has a novel plan for re-energizing them: It's started springing developers for month-long stints with new teams working on different projects.

Google opens URL-shortener Goo.gl to publicupdated: Fri Oct 01 2010 10:36:00

Web-page addresses can be notoriously long, but even the normal ones seem absolutely huge in our age of Twitter and text messaging. Every letter counts when you have only 140 characters.

New Google News design emphasizes choiceupdated: Thu Jul 01 2010 11:55:00

Google has given Google News a serious makeover, adding more personalization options and organizing everything in a single row of topic headlines.

Is your blog the unpopular kid?updated: Tue Jun 29 2010 11:27:00

Let's face it -- you never really leave high school.

CNNMoney: Google News stops hosting AP storiesupdated: Mon Jan 11 2010 16:11:00

Google News has stopped hosting new articles from the Associated Press the search giant confirmed Monday, in a sign that contract negotiations between the two companies may have broken down.

CNNMoney: Google limits free news accessupdated: Wed Dec 02 2009 09:41:00

Google announced a new policy Wednesday that allows news publishers to limit the amount of subscription content that Internet users can access for free from Google News.

Microsoft, Google expand search-engine toolsupdated: Fri Sep 18 2009 10:29:00

Say you're buying a dog. You know the breed you want; you can picture it in your head. But what was the name? A bull terrier? A pit bull? A bull mastiff?

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