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TAYLOR DISHER, a 22-year-old marketing student in Toronto, recently found a useful way to shorten her beauty routine. Rather than try on sticky layers of lip gloss in a drugstore aisle, she leisurely tested 20 different shades of gloss on her train commute to school using an iPhone app called MakeUp.

“I’m not a big makeup person, but the app looked kind of fun,” said Ms. Disher, who downloaded MakeUp from the Apple App Store several weeks ago. Using its facial recognition technology, she was able to apply rounds of pixelated gloss onto her pixelated lips (on an uploaded photo of herself) until she found a perfect posy pink.

Technology to Help Navigate Black Friday Sales

Earlier this week, I received the kind of frantic text message that makes your heart drop into your stomach. It simply read: “Please call home ASAP — URGENT!”

Panicked, I quickly picked up the phone — only to discover that no one in our family had fallen ill or suffered some tragic accident.

Independent Skype Set for Executive Shakeup

Last week, Skype became a newly independent company, formally separating from its parent of the last four years, eBay. Now the Internet phone company, with major offices in Luxembourg and London, is set for a significant reorganization of its management team.

Milo, a Site to Help People Shop Offline, Attracts Investors

As more and more people shop online, one start-up is pursuing a contrarian idea. Milo is a Web site where people can find out where to buy things offline.

Shoppers visit Milo and enter something they want to buy, like a MacBook or a specific brand of shoes, and enter a location — an address or ZIP code. The site presents a description and reviews of the products and a list of which local retailers carry it and which have the size, color and model they want in stock.

For Search, Murdoch Looks to a Deal With Microsoft

News Corporation, the media conglomerate controlled by Rupert Murdoch, has engaged in early-stage discussions with Microsoft about a pact to get paid by Microsoft to remove its news content from Google’s search engine and be available on Bing, according to a person briefed on the matter who spoke anonymously to discuss confidential negotiations.

LinkedIn Aims to Show Up in More Places Online

LinkedIn is hoping to let its users tap into their professional network across the Web.

On Monday, LinkedIn will make its technology available to software developers who want to use it in their own sites and applications. By incorporating information about someone’s professional profile and connections, LinkedIn can make those sites more useful, said Adam Nash, LinkedIn’s vice president of search and platform products.