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Mamma settles billing litigation

Mamma has settled an outstanding litigation with a former employee of its Intasys Billing Technologies subsidiaries claiming in excess of $20 million. The settlement of $225,000 had already been provided for in 2002. [Press Release]

Google again top brand on Web poll

Internet search engine named 'Brand with the Highest Impact' for the second year running. [CNN]

Superbowl scandal makes net history

Some may be getting all hot under the collar about it, but it certainly got everybody's attention. Janet and Justin's added performance at the Superbowl has beaten the Lycos record for most searched event online ever.[Sky News]

IBM sets out to make sense of the Web

Enter IBM, which would like to see its WebFountain supercomputing project become the next big thing in Web search. [News.com]

Can you trust Google's Friendster clone Orkut?

The search engine behemoth certainly has ambitious plans for your innocent musings. And be careful about any business ideas you express there. [TheRegister]

FindWhat.com merges with Espotting

Under the proposed terms of the transaction, which was approved by the board of directors of each company, Espotting stockholders will receive 7.0 million shares of FindWhat.com common stock and approximately $20.0 million in cash. [Press Release]

Online Search Engines Help Lift Cover of Privacy

Search engines make it easy to access secret military documents, passport numbers, credit card details, national identification numbers and more. [Washington Post]