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Bob Parsons’ SOPA-Box (Comic)

Here is the latest comic from our Joy of Tech friends at Geek Culture, Nitrozac and Snaggy. Joy of Tech appears three times a week in the Voices section of this site.
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Go Daddy: Never Mind That SOPA Thing, Look at Naked Danica Patrick

After losing some 37,000 domains over its support of a controversial piracy bill before Congress, Go Daddy resorts to its tried-and-true marketing weapon.
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Network Solutions Fetches $560 Million

Web.com Group Inc., a provider of online marketing and website services to small and medium-sized business, has agreed to acquire Network Solutions, one of the largest Internet domain-name registrars, for about $560 million in cash and stock.

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KKR, Others Near Deal to Buy GoDaddy

Private equity firms KKR & Co. and Silver Lake Partners, along with a third investor, are nearing a deal to buy GoDaddy Group Inc., the closely-held company that registers Internet domain names, for between $2 billion and $2.5 billion, people familiar with the matter said.