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The U.S. Department of Commerce has unveiled its recommendations for improving online privacy practices, and has called for a privacy bill of rights that would help regulate the way personal data is used.

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.

After Google Maps, Google Places and Google Earth, and a host of other ground-breaking products and apps, the Internet giant has now soft-launched the ‘Google Body Browser’, which tech analysts say is the Google Earth of the human body.

The company gets $200 million from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers to raise its total valuation to $3.7 billion

News Corp's social networking site MySpace and Google Inc have reached a multiyear search and advertising agreement, ending months of uncertainty surrounding the partnership.

Photographer Thomas Hawk suggested Bartz to settle for a salary of $1 a year for her failure to catch up with rivals like Google, Apple and Microsoft. Yet, he has asked her to use Flickr more as a social networking tool like Facebook.

After being voted 'Person of the Year' by Time magazine Mark Zukerberg's brainchild Facebook is expected to post $2 billion in revenue for the year 2010.

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.

Apple has launched its first iAd for iPad, the upcoming sci-fi Disney flick Tron Legacy, after launching the iAd feature in April.

France's antitrust watchdog put Google on notice not to abuse what it said was its dominant position in online search advertising, adding to European regulatory pressure on the U.S. Web search giant.

A small team has toiled away since early October in a quiet corner of Google Inc's sprawling campus in Mountain View, CA on a project related to the discovery of human antibodies.

France will levy a 1 percent what it dubbed as ‘Google tax’ on online advertisements, effective January 1.

Microsoft could demo a host of new tablets at the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas in January.

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

Google-owned video-sharing website, YouTube has announced the launch of YouTube Trends, aimed at showcasing and keeping track of the most popular videos on the site.

Computer software giant Microsoft has joined the ranks of companies opposing Google's proposed acquisition of ITA Software, which powers most of the online airfare search sites.

Teenager Justin Bieber had four of the top 10 most-watched music videos in the world on YouTube in 2010, with Baby taking claiming the top spot at more than 400 million views, YouTube said on Monday.

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.

Increasing global domination of Google's Android operating system, rapid market share gains by its Chrome browser and the potential of its Chrome OS for PCs position the Internet search giant to benefit from the digitization of human life, Wedbush Securities said.

After Google’s payment platform “Checkout” now Rovio, the maker of Angry Birds has launched an in-app carrier-billing payment system.

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.

The company says it can protect copyright holders, despite the longer videos it now allows on the site.

It may look like just any other laptop, but on the inside the Google's first Chrome OS Laptop - the Cr-48 is a distinct breed.

Google has released its year-end search report - Zeitgeist 2010. Among the personalities and events that figure on search trends list are Justin Beiber, Lady Gaga, Kim Kardashian, Oil Spill, World Cup, Haiti Earthquake and more.

New shares of Chinese online video broadcasting company Youku (NYSE:YOKU) are selling like it's 1999.

While it may make some strategic sense for Yahoo and AOL to combine some of their operations, she sees little hope for the resulting merged entity to mount a challenge against the reigning monarch of the search-engine market, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG).

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.