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If Facebook were a country, it would be the world's third most populous one, after China and India. The Economist reports in a special report on social networking – followed by users in South Korea, Spain, Brazil, Germany, France, and Japan. The world's most popular social sites are Facebook, Windows Live, MySpace, Chinese portal Baidu, Twitter, Google's social site Orkut (popular in Brazil and India), Hi5, Chinese social site QQ, LinkedIn, and art community site DeviantArt – in that order, based on 10/09  

MCLEAN, VA -- (Marketwire) -- 02/08/10 -- QinetiQ North America (LSE: QQ) announced today that it is working with Brewer Science and Applied Systems Intelligence on a program to develop an autonomous, self-deploying sensor that will serve as a roving, early-warning detector of biological warfare activity. Work on the project will be performed primarily at the Jordan Valley Innovation Center (JVIC) at Missouri State University, Springfield, Mo., and the Waltham, Mass., office of QinetiQ North America's Te  

AOL has taken another step closer to selling off its ICQ instant messaging service, culling seven bids to four "serious" ones, said sources close to the situation. The price for the service is hovering just under $200 million, several sources said, with one bid higher. An AOL spokeswoman declined to comment.  

It looks like being an eventful week in terms of upcoming economic data. Attention will undoubtedly focus on the preliminary fourth quarter 2009 GDP, which is due for release in a number of CEE countries, such as the Czech Republic, Hungary, Latvia and Estonia. In general, the numbers should confirm that the economic downturn in the CEE economies has bottomed out, which should be seen in the Q4 GDP figures.  

At first glance this seems reasonable enough – indeed, the share price of Baidu's Nasdaq-listed unit has gone up 10.5% since Google's January 12 announcement, and it just posted better-than-expected results for the fourth quarter of 2009. But while Baidu is the dominant search engine company in China and will get a bump if Google retreats from there, we think investors and analysts are too high on its potential in light of Google's missteps and are overestimating the increased market share if Google leav  

Though other subcompacts are going on sale ahead of the Spring Festival, Chang'an Suzuki's New Alto will see its prices stay unchanged, ranging between 44,900-58,900 yuan ($6,576-$8,627), even after Friday's recall. Chongqing Chang'an Suzuki Automobile, Japanese automaker Suzuki's joint venture in China, announced Friday in a statement that it would recall 10,326 New Alto sedans produced between July 6, 2009 and January 17, 2010 due to gas filter problems. Oil leaks may occur due to a problem with the  

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - Feb. 5, 2010) - The TSX Venture Exchange today announced that Quizam Media Corp. (TSX VENTURE:QQ) has been named as one of the TSX Venture 50, a ranking of strong performers listed on TSX Venture Exchange. TSX Venture 50 is comprised of 10 emerging companies in five industry sectors that have been identified as leaders in Canada's public venture market. Russ Rossi, CEO of Quizam, commented, "It is an honor to be named as part of this year's TSX Venture 50. Our  

Slovak GDP seen up 2.2 pct q/q, -4.1 pct y/y. Full year growth seen down 5.0 percent. BRATISLAVA, Feb 5 (Reuters) - The Czech and Slovak economies continued a gradual but fragile recovery at the end of last year as activity picked up in the euro zone, the countries' key trading partner, Reuters polls showed on Friday.  

Net revenue for the fourth quarter of 2009 was a record $1.343 billion.