Google is adding  Place results to Google Search in a major way. Place Search will now reside on Google.com when you’re doing a search that Google believes is attempting to discover a location. And it will also have a home in the left toolbar (you know, where “Images”, “Videos”, “Shopping”, etc reside) as “Places”, which a user can click on to just get location results.

Yahoo's shares surged above $17 in premarket trade, but stood at $16.72, up $1.47 or 9.6 percent, shortly after regular trade began on the Nasdaq. Yahoo's jump comes after a source said on Wednesday that several private equity firms have approached media companies including News Corp and AOL about a possible acquisition of Yahoo. Skype 5 adds features familiar to Facebook users, including status updates that Skype has called "mood

Yahoo has revamped its search with a more streamlined layout. It has also improved mobile search functionality and added hot search topics to the front page. Apple Inc. is making a version of its iPhone that Verizon Wireless will sell early next year, according to people familiar with the matter, ending an exclusive deal with AT&T and sharpenin

Dell has released its first US smartphone. This means it will be competing with Apple on three different fronts: smartphones, tablets and computers. It just released a tablet called the Streak this month. Bing now powers Yahoo Search. Microsoft now owns 28.1% of the search market, though that’s still less than half of Google’s 65.8% share. Tumblr just had its billionth post. More

HP CEO, Mark Hurd Resigns after sexual harassment probe. Yahoo is turning news browsing into infinite search. They are suggesting search terms underneath news content on Yahoo News. This seems to be the new trend right now. Integrate search with content by suggesting terms.Continue Reading