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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Worried about that niggling pain in your arm? Concerned about those persistent headaches? If you've searched online for information about medical woes you're not alone.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Worried about that niggling pain in your arm? Concerned about those persistent headaches? If you've searched online for information about medical woes you're not alone.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, California (Reuters) - Google Inc. is looking to find more links between the searches its users do in order to better target advertising, but the company is reluctant to go much further than that in tracking their behavior.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Communications Commission voted to shake up the wireless market on Tuesday by approving rules for a big airwaves auction that would require the winner to make them accessible to any cell phone or other device.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc shares fell nearly 7 percent on Tuesday on rumors including talk of production cuts in iPhones or iPods.

BOSTON (Reuters) - VMware executives are holding meetings with investors this week as parent EMC Corp. prepares to take the business software maker public in a highly anticipated initial offering, a spokesman said on Tuesday.

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Makers of laptop computers are facing a shortage of components that could get worse this quarter, semiconductor price tracker and electronics market researcher DRAMeXchange said on Tuesday.

BOSTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government said on Tuesday it had chosen 29 companies to provide information technology products to federal agencies in a contract worth up to $50 billion.

Music fans have now downloaded and purchased more than three billion songs from the iTunes Store, and “we’d like to thank all of our customers who have contributed to this incredible milestone,” said Eddy Cue, Apple’s vice president of iTunes. The world’s most popular online music, TV, and movie store, iTunes features a catalog of more than five million songs, 550 TV shows, and 500 movies, and it recently surpassed both Amazon and Target to become the third largest music retailer in the US.

Music fans have now downloaded and purchased more than three billion songs from the iTunes Store, and “we’d like to thank all of our customers who have contributed to this incredible milestone,” said Eddy Cue, Apple’s vice president of iTunes. The world’s most popular online music, TV, and movie store, iTunes features a catalog of more than five million songs, 550 TV shows, and 500 movies, and it recently surpassed both Amazon and Target to become the third largest music retailer in the US.