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Apple has stuck its nose under Google's search tent with the purchase of a leading-edge maker of a mobile virtual personal assistant application. News of the company's acquisition of Siri, which just launched its iPhone app in February, broke after blogger Robert Scoble revealed that the Federal Trade Commission had approved the deal by granting Apple an early termination notice under the Hart-Rodino Act.

Siri Buy Opens New Front in Apple's War on Google