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Yahoo is planning to shut several of its web properties, including Delicious, Yahoo Buzz, MyBlogLog, AltaVista, AllTheWeb.com and Yahoo Picks, as part of its restructuring efforts to save costs and exit unprofitable ventures.

The company introduces speech recognition to Android 2.2 phones, which can recognize the user's phone and understand their specific dialect.

Benchmark Capital raised its profit estimates and price target on Google Inc., citing the company's strong operating momentum in search business.

DoubleClick and Microsoft Networks were victims of a drive by download attack that infected thousands of people with malware that tries to get them to buy unnecessary software to fix their computers.

Internet company Yahoo Inc is preparing to retrench between 600 and 700 employees ahead of a holiday trimming due to its lackluster growth.

Microsoft won a deal with United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) under which it will move 120,000 of its employees to messaging, conferencing and document sharing over the cloud.

Connecticut's Attorney General formally demanded that Google Inc hand over personal data collected by its Street View cars, saying that inspecting the data is crucial to assessing a penalty.

Google has opened a 40,000-square-foot office in Pittsburgh, the search giant said in its official blog.

Google has released a new version of YouTube app on the Android market.

Google released its Chrome OS-based beta notebook Cr-48 for a select group of testers after announcing the light-weight, web-centric browser last summer.

Sony Corporation of America's CFO Robert Wiesenthal said the company will bridge the gap between the media and Hollywood, as a content creator and an electronics manufacturer.

Jefferies & Co. downgraded rating of online DVD rental company Netflix, Inc. (NFLX) to 'hold' from 'buy' given the 270 percent run-up in the stock since January 2010, with a price target of $195.

Search giant Google could witness a rally in its stock price amid its leadership in search advertising market and soaring adoption of its Android operating system in smartphones and tablets.

Mark Cuban, CEO of HDNet, calls over the top video a complimentary service, not a replacement to cable or satellite.

It was not just all about Gingerbread powered Nexus S but Google's VP of Engineering Andy Rubin also flashed a prototype of Motorola's Android tablet on stage at D:Dive into Mobile conference.

Google officially launches its e-book endeavor.

A report from iSuppli says revenues for consumer electronics companies have increased 6.2 percent from last year.

Google has launched a new Google Labs product called Google Earth Engine at the International Climate Change Conference in sunny Cancun, Mexico, said Google blog post.

Google Inc unveiled technology on Thursday it says will help build trust between rich and poor countries on projects designed to protect the world's tropical forests.

The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) goes Google. GSA will move 17,000 employees and contractors to Google apps for Government.

While the company is not confirming details, a media report says their new endeavor will be an open platform with an attached retail store.

Congress is looking at whether a do not track law, while internet advertisers and web software companies craft a response.

After Google announced plans to launch Google Editions in 2009, the much-awaited but delayed buy anywhere read anywhere digital book distribution channel is to hit the market by the end of December.

Internet search company Google Inc on Tuesday said it has signed a deal with the European Patent Office (EPO) to use the company’s technology to translate patents into 29 European languages that will pave the way for a simplified European patent system.

US stocks declined in early trade on Tuesday as renewed concerns about European sovereign debt crisis weighed on sentiment.

The European Commission has decided to probe Google Inc. after complaints by search service providers about unfavourable treatment of their services in Google's search results along with an alleged preferential placement of Google's own services.

Reports on Tuesday suggested that Google's bid to acquire collective-buying site Groupon now stands at $5.3 billion compared to earlier estimates that quantified the deal at $2.5 billion.

In a deal worth $2.5 billion Google is rumored to have acquired the collective daily deal provider Groupon, beating Yahoo, to capture the hottest company on the web.

The employee who was sacked by Google for divulging information regarding employee salary hike and bonus, happens to be Randy Wigginton, a former number six at Apple.