Google's $6 Billion Bid

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will return.

Google is willing to pay around $6
billion for e-commerce coupon web
site Groupon per media sources. The
first payment will be 5.3 billion,
and 700 million will be used as
incentive to keep current employees
according to AllThingsD.

This offer comes as it's rumored that
Yahoo would offer $3 billion to $4
billion to purchase the company. It
turned out that the two companies
paired up as partners for Yahoo Local,
details have not been specified.

The social shopping network is two years
old, revenue is about $600 million.
Industry experts feel that figure will
grow.

Groupon's revenue is from offering members
big discounts from retailers. Retailers get
lots of traffic for their inventory.

Groupon is located at Groupon.com that is
localized to many major markets in both the
United States and Canada. Originally, it
launched in November 2008. Groupon first
arrived in Chicago, Illinois. It was off
to Boston, New York City and Toronto. As
of October 2010, Groupon now serves more
than 150 markets in North America as well
as 100 markets in Europe, Asia and South
America.

Groupon is reportedly thinking about Google's
offer.

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Parcel Bombs Designed To Get Pass Detection Devices

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Parcel bombs on UPS and FedEx flights
cost $4,200, per a report in Inspire
magazine that analysts say is published
by al Qaeda's branch in Yemen.

The latest issue is committed to the plot,
which it calls "Operation Hemorrhage."

"The operation has succeeded in achieving
its objectives. We thank Allah for His
blessings," the magazine, released late
Saturday.

On October 29, authorities in the United
Kingdom and the United Arab Emirates
intercepted parcel bombs sent from Yemen,
addressed to U.S. synagogues.

Al Qaeda bomb-makers designed the parcel
bombs to get pass detection devices and
elude sniffer dogs, stated the article.
It lists making the explosive mimic
printer toner and integrating the bombs'
circuits into printer cartridge circuits
as methods to get pass security detection.

Inspire gave adoration for the 2001
September 11 attacks on the United States
for their destruction, and for the high
number of lives they took.

"It is more feasible to stage smaller
attacks that involve less players and
less time to launch and thus we may
circumvent the security barriers America
worked so hard to erect," Inspire.

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Google's Fashion Shopping Web Site

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will return.

Google created a new e-commerce web
site that improves how fashion is
presented and sold online.

Boutiques.com is a collection of
hundreds of virtual boutiques
merchandised by designers, retailers,
bloggers, celebrities and just people.

Shop for the style of the actress Carey
Mulligan or Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen
to name a few celebrities who signed up
for the launch.

You can build your own boutique and amass
followers who can comment on your style.

For every boutique on the web site, there
are dozens of additional choices inspired
by a designer's or celebrity's style;
generated by algorithms with product
photos that are much larger/sharper than
on other shopping web sites.

The inspiration panel automatically adjusts
for your style.

The technology was developed by Like.com, a
Silicon Valley company co-founded by Munjal
Shah, which Google acquired last summer for
a reported $100 million.

Mr. Shah leads the team for Boutiques.com.

AOL Advisers Present Merger Options With Yahoo

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AOL is exploring strategic ways for
the company that could include a possible
combination of assets from itself and
Yahoo, per The Wall Street Journal sources
on Sunday.

The report pointed-out a match of AOL and
at least a part of Yahoo's assets are just
one of the directions the company is
exploring through an advisory team.

"Among the scenarios being examined by
AOL are a combination of Yahoo and AOL's
online businesses after a spin-off of
Yahoo's Asian assets that would return
capital to share-holders, people familiar
with the matter said," according to the
paper. "Another scenario would have private
equity firms take a stake in the combined
operations, along with a plan to pay a
dividend to Yahoo share-holders, the people
added."

The firms mentioned by the Journal: Silver
Lake Partners and Blackstone Group, but as
many as three other groups could be included.
In Sunday's report, the paper said that AOL
held merger talks with Yahoo before, but not
this time.

AOL has talked to Yahoo before, but not with
a formal proposal.

Parcel Bomb Plot Uncovered

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Two parcels addressed to Jewish
institutions in Chicago contained
the lethal explosive PETN hidden
in ink toner cartridges, and
uncovered Thursday on cargo planes
headed to the United States in
Britain and Dubai.

The Dubai bomb was composed of a
highly explosive combination of
PETN and lead azide, concealed
inside a computer printer with a
circuit board and mobile phone SIM
card attached, security officials
explained.

The boxes were stopped in transit
and searched," per an official. "At
the time, people obviously took notice,
knowing of the terrorist group's interest
in aviation- considered the possibility
that AQAP might be exploring the
logistics of the cargo system."

ABC News, first broke the news, commented
it had been told by senior officials that
ever since the September discovery of
suspicious packages from Yemen, the U.S.
intelligence agencies had specific concerns
about AQAP's interest in Chicago.

Saudi bombmaker, Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri,
has emerged as a key suspect in the bomb
plot.

The militant, thought to be hiding in Yemen,
was already wanted for crafting the "underwear"
bomb worn by the young Nigerian accused of
trying to bring down a packed airliner as it
landed in Detroit on Christmas Day 2009.

A team of U.S. experts is heading to Yemen to
give screening, training and equipment to examine
cargo shipments at the main international airport
in the capital Sanaa.