Sponsored by Google

After just an 18-month run, Google has decided to fold Google Buzz, its first attempt to create a social network, along with other products like Jaiku, Code Search and Google Labs.

Apple's most enhanced mobile operating system -- iOS 5 -- is finally available to consumers, along with the near-mythical iPhone 4S.

Apple has grabbed a good deal of limelight this week, both in the smartphone market and on the Internet, nudging aside Google and Samsung with the release of the iPhone 4S, the iOS5, the iCloud, new iOS apps, Mac OS X updates and the iLife software.

There is no longer any buzz surrounding Google Buzz, as Google Inc. plans to kill off its microblogging service with a shift to focus more on its social networking Web site, Google Plus, and streamline its vision. But will Google+ succeed or be another failed attempt at a social network like Buzz?

One more Friday and one more piece of bad news from the headquarters of Google Inc. On Friday, the Internet giant announced that it was going to shut down its social messaging platform Google Buzz, in order to focus more on its latest venture - Google+, anetworking paltform that aims to comepte with Facebook and Twitter.

According to reports on Chitika Insights,Google+ has constantly failed to please its users; statistics show that the traffic on the social networking site has dipped by 70 per cent of its original numbers, since its launch a month back.

Google Buzz, the social messaging platform which was launched to take on Twitter, will be shut down soon.

Something tells me the unveiling of Google and Samsung Galaxy Nexus, also known as the Nexus Prime, is very near, as Ice Cream Sandwich Android Statues are already set up at Google's Android headquarters. Android developers posted a YouTube video of the statues being set up on Oct. 13 on their YouTube channel. The video description states that at 10 a.m. on Oct. 19 (Hong Kong time) the next Google operating system will be unveiled.

Google Inc's free Android smartphone software, already a big hit with consumers, is starting to win the hearts of investors.

Google announced Friday it will shut down Google Buzz to focus on Google Plus. The search giant has also decided to fold several other departments within the company, including Jaiku and Code Search.

Stocks scored their first back-to-back weekly gains since early July on Friday, on strong Google earnings and as investors kept riding waves of optimism for a solution to the euro-zone debt crisis.

From last Tuesday, U.S. stocks have jumped about 10 percent. This rally, however, may be as fragile as late baseball great Mickey Mantle, according to Keith McCullough of Hedgeye Risk Management.

Stocks scored their first back-to-back weekly gains since early July on Friday, on strong Google earnings and as investors kept riding waves of optimism for a solution to the euro-zone debt crisis.

What makes the iPhone 4S the best iPhone yet? We've played with it, and now it's time to discover what the hype is about.

What will Google buy with all that cash? Here are some suggestions.

U.S. stocks advanced on Friday, putting the S&P 500 on track for back-to-back weekly gains for the first time since early July after better-than-expected retail sales and results from Google .

The search engine giant is shutting down the feature

Stocks advanced on Friday, putting the S&P 500 on track for back-to-back weekly gains for the first time since early July after better-than-expected retail sales and results from Google .

Friday's market is mostly driven by good news out of the U.S., namely solid September retail sales data and stellar earnings from tech giant Google. Some experts, however, are not convinced.

Google Inc is likely to emerge as a top mobile play, according to Wall Street analysts, with several raising their price targets on the stock, some by as much as 10 percent.

Friday's market rally has taken the Dow Jones Industrial Average to positive territory for the year.

Five months after Microsoft said it would acquire Skype for $8.5 billion, the deal was approved and the transaction closed. Is Microsoft now ready to battle Google, whose proposed $12.5 billion takeover of Motorola Mobility is expected to close next quarter?

Stock index futures rose on Friday, shrugging off a credit rating downgrade of Spain, propelled by strong earnings from Google Inc and hopes the euro zone will continue progress toward a solution to its debt crisis.

Stock index futures rose on Friday, shrugging off a credit rating downgrade of Spain, propelled by strong earnings from Google Inc. and hopes the Eurozone will continue progress toward a solution to its debt crisis.

Stock index futures rose on Friday, shrugging off a credit rating downgrade of Spain, propelled by strong earnings from Google Inc and hopes the euro zone will continue progress toward a solution to its debt crisis.

Google registered a revenue growth by a third to $9.7 billion in the past quarter, as net profits grew more than a quarter to $2.7 billion. The figures were announced at a time when technology industry analysts were more or less predicting that Google Plus was doomed to fail.

Internet search giant Google posted a big jump in its profits in the third quarter. Its net income rose to $2.73 billion as its online advertising revenue reached $9.72 billion in the third quarter.

Google Inc's third-quarter results trounced Wall Street expectations as good cost controls helped boost the Internet search leader's profit by about 26 percent.

The Dow and S&P 500 slipped on Thursday after JPMorgan's earnings and China's soft trade data revived worries about the impact of slower growth on profits.