With outfits like Patch, AOL is doing a good job rolling up small-scale news reporting across the country.

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Facebook has relaunched its Questions application and is rolling it out on a broader scale to users after a previous iteration failed to get much traction.

FORBES: Morning Tech Wrap: Apple, Google, Firefox

At the Pentagon briefing, McChrystal did not talk about specific deployment orders, but he said there would be a "rolling" adjustment to orders as military operations scale back.

CNN: Pentagon: 'Major combat' over, but smaller fights remain

Even U.S. firms that recently raised or are rolling out pan-Asian funds aren't attempting anything on the same scale as Blackstone.

WSJ: Blackstone Takes Aim at Asia

On Wednesday they were shocked to find a full-scale riot, with masked anarchists and Kevlar-clad riot cops, surge in a rolling maul down the street they are camped in.

BBC: Greece: Tax collectors hit the pavements, seeking work