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Microsoft Corp's Bing search engine won more market share from rivals last week, according to new industry data released on Wednesday, but still trails Google Inc and Yahoo Inc.

Microsoft Corp was off to a good start with its revamped search engine Bing that was launched a few weeks earlier, Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer said on Wednesday.

Apple officially announced the availability of iPhone 3.0 software last week, but the exact time has been kept in secret.

Microsoft Corp's share of Internet searches continued to grow for a second week after the introduction of its new search engine Bing, industry tracker comScore Inc said on Wednesday.

After receiving a letter from group of privacy and security experts, Google is planning to turn on HTTPS as the default for all Gmail users all the time.

Consumer Watchdog praised Google on Tuesday for agreeing to offer improved security for users of its online e-mail services like Gmail.

Religiously devout Jews barred by rabbis from surfing the Internet may now Koogle it on a new kosher search engine, the site manager said on Sunday.

News Corp's MySpace refused to comment on Thursday on a report the previous day that said the online social network will fire a massive number of employees.

News Corp's MySpace refused to comment on Thursday on a report the previous day that said the online social network will fire a massive number of employees.

AOL has struck deals to acquire two small start-up companies focused on local online media, Patch Media Corp and Going Inc, ahead of its separation from Time Warner Inc.

Google Inc has received formal notice from the U.S. Justice Department that antitrust investigators are looking into its settlement with publishers that would help make millions of books available online.

The Justice Department antitrust division has sent at least two publishers the civil equivalent of a subpoena, seeking information on a deal reached with Google, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.

Google's Eric Schmidt shared some funny thoughts and at times, underlying blows at Microsoft's new search engine, Bing.com in an interview on Tuesday.

In the first week since Microsoft's Bing.com went live, traffic to the site has increased into double digits for the first time in two years, but this is only the beginning and time will tell how well the search engine does in the long run.

Google Inc is closing in on its goal of producing renewable energy at a price cheaper than coal, the company's so-called green energy czar, the engineer in charge of the project, said on Tuesday.

Google is looking to buy smaller technology companies to enhance its technology portfolio, Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said in an interview with the Fox Business network on Tuesday.

Google Inc introduced software to make it easier for businesses using Microsoft Corp's Outlook to switch to its Web-based communications and collaboration products.

Microsoft Corp is making early gains on Internet search leaders Google Inc and Yahoo Inc with its Bing search engine that launched last week, according to industry data firm comScore.

Professor Rajeev Motwani, a Stanford professor who inspired the co-founders of Google and influenced a generation of computer scientists, died at his Calif., home on Friday.

Google issued an early preview release of its Chrome browser for Linux and Mac OS X on Thursday, but Google warned that the browser may crash and is still lacking some features.

Microsoft's Bing.com search engine surpassed Yahoo to become the number two search on Thursday, one spot behind Google.

Google has launched a new analytics tool called Google Squared, which takes a spreadsheet-like approach to finding information on the Web.

The U.S. Justice Department is investigating possible pacts by big tech businesses not to poach one another's talent, a tech industry source with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters on Wednesday.

An Internet search deal between Yahoo Inc and Microsoft Corp could provide important benefits in scale and yield up to $700 million in cost savings, Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz said.

Google Inc is stepping up efforts to infuse its search engine into the operations of the most technically sophisticated corporations as well as the least digitally savvy businesses.

Google's open source Android operating system has been used as a smartphone operating system, and now the software will be used in Acer netbooks that are set to come out in the third quarter.

Microsoft's Bing search engine went live over the weekend, three days ahead of schedule, making it the company's latest attempt to grab a larger slice of the online search market from Google.

Nokia’s chief executive says the mobile phone market’s main players include are Google, Microsoft, Apple and Samsung Electronics.

Microsoft unveiled its improved search engine called “Bing” this week and is doing so without the help of Yahoo’s search engine, as negotiations for a possible deal are stalled.