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 The 30-year-old CEO in Chicago is changing the way we buy from local businesses. And trying to make billions doing it.

 Do away with Google? Break up Facebook? We can't imagine life without them—and that's the problem

4:40 pm : The week's wild ride has concluded, but onlookers might not know it by the relatively mild close had on Friday. The S&P 500 surged almost 12% Monday, suffered its biggest drop since the 1987 crash on Wednesday, and rallied more than 4% Thursday. On Friday alone the index swung nearly 7% from low to high before finishing with a 0.6% loss.

But I thought they lost the war, even with Perl Harbor...

Writely = Microsoft's Pearl Harbor? by ZDNet's Dan Farber -- In response to my post Blog swarm on Writely, Gary Edwards (who is steeped in OpenDoc and OpenOffice) penned this TalkBack:To understand why this deal is Peal Harbor for Microsoft, and a declaration of all out war for Google, i think one has to make a leap and consider that this isn't about applications. It's about [...]