g. Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn Corp. (LNKD) have gained so much traction as online marketing tools that major firms like Morgan Stanley (MS) and Bank of America's (BAC) Merrill Lynch have begun allowing employees to use them in their work. Morgan Stanley said Wednesday it would roll out LinkedIn's career and socializing service and Twitter, the popular micro-blogging service, to 600 of its financial advisers in its Morgan Stanley Smith Barney brokerage joint venture in June. The firm, which will allow advisers to share preapproved status updates and tweets, expects to make the social networking sites available to the rest of its 17,800-member advisory force within six months. A Bank of America spokeswoman told Dow Jones Newswires on Wednesday the firm has advisers with full capabilities on LinkedIn. The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Wall Street's self-regulatory watchdog, requires static communications, such as advertisements, to be approved by a company representative licensed by regulators to approve sales materials. Interactive content, which covers most emails as well as tweets, posts and texts on mobile phones, doesn't need to be preapproved, but has to be supervised. Companies have to keep records of both types of content for at least three years. Massachusetts has asked for responses by June 8. The Secretary of the Commonwealth, William Galvin, has beena new office in Malaysia for testing the credit-card issuer's business applications. It didn't give any financial details of the partnership. The new center at Kuala Lumpur will support Satyam's efforts around research and development, and facilitate global colnths to the end of March, the Australian Bureau of Statistics reported Tuesday. Exports dropped A$2.0 billion, or 3%, and imports rose A$1.32 billion, or 2%. In seasonally adjusted chain-volume terms, the country's net goods-and-services deficit rose A$7.78 billion to A$9.1 billion in the quarter, and the ABS said that it's exp