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Legal filings show that Google initially offered to pay as little as $8.4 billion for Motorola Mobility before finally settling for $12.5 billion demanded by financial advisers.

In an attempt to beat Google+ Circles and stay on top of everything in the social network market, Facebook on Tuesday debuted Smart Lists - an improved friend lists with which users can customize their lists of friends, define privacy settings and filter the news feed.

Google's new airline search engine, which aggregates flight information from desired destinations, showed the World Trade Center as an airport option for New York City.

On Wednesday, Facebook unveiled smart lists, an new, optional feature where lists are customizable, the same day the company's representatives met with D.C. lawmakers to address a privacy issue alarming a number of members of the U.S. Congress - children's online safety.

Intel and Google announced a partnership strategically planned to bolster their respective business while challenging Apple’s iPhone in the burgeoning smartphone market.

Intel has woken up to demonstrate a Medfield-based smartphone running on Android Honeycomb, to be a part of the fast growing mobile sector, after a long era of dominance in the computer and server market.

Google watchers knew the company was going to launch its new Google Flights Web site sooner than later, considering the company acquired ITA software last year, and now it is reality, as Internet searchers can search flights based on cost and travel time. Google Flight Search launched Tuesday. Users can find it google.com/flights. The online flight service has similarities to services offered by Priceline, Expedia, and Orbitz, though some experts suggest Google's may be seconds faster in down...

Google introduces new flight search engine, based on the ITA Software, a flight data provider to let users search for airline flights and fares.

Intel Corp. is putting significant weight behind ultra-slim Ultrabook in the Intel Developer Forum, which would be a threat to Apple Inc.'s iPad and MacBook Air.

Facebook has introduced a feature through which users can separate their friends into different groups.

Google has been busy lately, launching its new social network, Google+, and moving to acquire Motorola Mobility and Zagat, the iconic restaurant rating review company. Now, Google has quietly launched the company's online Google Travel engine, called Flight Search. The tool offers basic flight information and pricing, and may ultimately become a competitor to Kayak, an online site that offers discounted fares and flight information from city to city throughout the world.

Intel Corp and Google Inc launched a development partnership on Tuesday, the latest effort by the world's dominant maker of PC microprocessors to break into the booming smartphone market.

Faster growth is predicted in the next several years for Groupon and other daily deal companies, but the hot Internet space that taps into consumer appetite for cheap food and drink, spa services, yoga lessons, sports tickets and other offerings has its limits, according to new research.

Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes said a move by North Carolina lawmakers to prohibit gay marriage is bad for business.

Google Inc's effort to break into the daily deal industry and challenge industry leaders Groupon and LivingSocial is not going well, according to data released on Monday.

Music can be streamed from the cloud to iOS devices as Google Music Beta is now accessible in iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.

About three years ago, Zagat put itself out there for anyone who wanted a taste at an estimated value at $200 million. But there was no bite. Google eventually sampled Zagat and like what they had and made an offer close to the asking price.

A new Netflix update brings the app to Verizon 1.4, which means Netflix will stream movies on 80 percent of the Android based smartphones that run on Android 2.2(Froyo) or Android 2.3 (Gingerbread).

Google learned that Zagat is no cheap date, as a recent acquisition of the restaurant-review company reportedly set the Internet search engine giant back by $125 million.

According to sources, Google has confirmed that the newest version of Android build that is set to arrive after Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) will be Jelly Bean.

A new report is saying AOL CEO Tim Armstrong is pushing hard for a merger between his company and Yahoo.

Google Inc is advising its Gmail email service customers in Iran to change their passwords in the wake of a cyberattack that has affected a major swath of the country.

Now that Yahoo is searching for a new CEO and activist investor Daniel Loeb’s Third Point is trying to stir the pot, here are some things that former CEO Carol Bartz could have done to keep her job:

Google Inc has bought popular dining ratings authority Zagat, adding a valuable brand to its content offerings and bolstering its push into the rapidly growing local commerce market.

The judge overseeing a potential billion dollar patent case between Oracle and Google is angling for a summit of Silicon Valley's two most famous Larrys.

Carol Bartz lashes out at Yahoo's Board of Directors in an interview, calling them doofuses and saying, These people f--ed me over.

Google Inc has bought Zagat, the popular restaurant recommendations and ratings authority, to expand its local content in the niche marketplace that includes Yelp and Yahoo Inc.

Google said it has bought Zagat Surveys, the online restaurant rating and reviewer, to bolster its search service. The deal clearly will augment its move into smartphones, coming after its deal to acquire Motorola Mobility.

Search engine Google Inc. is buying Zagat Survey LLC, the widely used 32-year-old restaurant guide, for an undisclosed amount.