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Despite increasing competition, Research In Motion is expected to report healthy second-quarter growth.

The country's return to growth is a strong signal that a corner has been turned in the global crisis.

If it wasn't bad enough that Facebook bought FriendFeed on Monday and turned on real-time search to better compete against Twitter in the Stream Wars, and is playing around with a lite version that resembles Twitter even more, now Twitter really has something to worry about. Facebook is growing faster than Twitter in the U.S., even though it is more than four times larger.

Google Inc. late Thursday reported a second-quarter profit that topped Wall Street estimates thanks to tight cost controls, though the Internet giant's numbers for the period also reflected meager revenue growth due to less online advertising.

Microsoft is definitely relishing its Bing moment, communicating gains in market share every chance it gets to build a story of steady progression against both Google and Yahoo.