by Claudine Zap Martin Luther King, Jr . was not an American president (think Presidents' Day). Unlike our veterans, who are also honored with a federal holiday, King did not fight in any wars. In fact, MLK Jr. was a pacifist. But the slain civil rights leader has a federal day when the country stops to recognize his acheivements. It wasn't always like that. The Buzz looks at some common questions around the man, the day, and his legacy. Is MLK day a federal holiday?

World Vision and Red Cross certainly aren't the only entities out there putting in time or money (or both) for the victims of the Haiti earthquake. Coke, American Airlines, UPS, eBay, and Facebook , among others, are brands that deserve to be commended for their big donations. It's worth noting that celebrities have also been commendable. Alyssa Milano has done a ton of Tweeting to help the Red Cross drive and George Clooney is setting up a telethon,

Fair warning: this is not a report upon which you should rearrange your stock portfolio. Please don't even bet anyone a significant amount of money. Just the same, Carol Bartz appears to have given a hint that she's interested in acquiring Yelp. Brian Womack recently interviewed Bartz, and at one point, asked her about buying the site known for its fast-growing collection of local reviews. Bartz, who is in turn known for speaking plainly,

Real-time search engine OneRiot announced a new "real-time ad network" today. It's called RiotWise , and the company says its designed to help developers monetize their apps. "2009 witnessed an explosion of apps and services catering to users of the realtime web," says Tobias Peggs, GM of OneRiot. "RiotWise is the way to monetize those apps in 2010. Our ads make sense to buyers, make sense to users,

comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the U.S. search marketplace. In December 2009, Americans conducted 14.7 billion core searches, with Google Sites accounting for 65.7 percent search market share, virtually unchanged from 65.6 percent in November. Microsoft Sites grabbed 10.7 percent market share, up 0.4 percentage points versus November.

For about a year now, I've been saying that Apple should get in the search game . Now business analysts are beginning to agree and experts are pondering the possibility. Per Business Week Some analysts believe the Apple-Google battle is likely to get much rougher in the months ahead. Ovum's Yarmis thinks Apple may soon decide to dump Google as the default search engine on its devices,

Rumors of MySpace integrating Facebook Connect have circulated since October . And now it looks like theyre coming true: MySpaces Fan Video site allows users to login with either MySpace or Facebook accounts . The Fan Video site itself takes professional music videos and inserts your profile picture prominently. The site also features sharing capabilities to post the videos to MySpace, Facebook or Twitter. Additionally,

Publishers could be losing between $2.75- 3 billion due to online book piracy, according to a new report from Attributor. Attributor's FairShare Guardian service monitored 913 popular books in 14 categories in the fourth quarter of 2009. FairShare tracked the number of successful downloads completed for each of the 913 titles on four file sharing sites that make download data available (4shared.com, scribd.com, wattpad.com and docstoc.com). Across those four sites,

We are always looking for new applications for social media outlets right? How can we get our message out to more people? How can we create community amongst customers? How we can get 40,000 people to follow us as we escape from the law? Whoa, wait a minute. That last one doesnt seem very marketing oriented does it? Well, thats because its not and it is really a slow news day at least from this bloggers perspective.

Google continues to fine-tune the fusion of location with its mobile Web services. The search engine Jan. 14 began offering search suggestions based on the current or last location of a user's mobile phone. Search suggestions is an efficient way of searching Google on Android-based smartphones and Apple's iPhone. Users start typing a query and a lateral line of potential keywords pops up below the search box. Users can select choices by tapping instead typing their request.