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Yahoo has seen a lot of turmoil and restructuring in the past couple of months, but it may finally be getting back on track with new product launches. It launched Yahoo Axis, a new search oriented add-on for web browsers last month... By leveraging Yahoo's 700 million user base, Axis could attract a significant number of users in the coming months.

Here’s some news you probably didn’t expect to read: Yahoo just released its own Web browser. Well, sorta. The new software, dubbed Yahoo Axis, is being called a "search browser." Its main trick is the ability to bypass the standard list of links and instead send users directly to websites and pages via thumbnails.

Google said on Saturday that Chinese authorities have approved its $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola Mobility Holdings, the last regulatory hurdle to a deal that would allow the world's No. 1 Internet search engine to develop its own line of smart phones.

Google said it is rolling out an extensive update to its dominant search engine by using troves of data to refine the answers it provides to user queries on specific topics. The technology known as "Knowledge Graph" is being rolled out by Google within its search service over the coming weeks, the company said Wednesday. It uses a database of about 500 million people, places and things compiled by the company to figure out what users are looking for, and present them with additional, related information.

Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson reportedly will step down Sunday amid controversy over mentions on his resume and in regulatory filings of a computer science degree he never received.

Yahoo Inc could be weeks away from selling 15 to 25 percent of Alibaba Group's stock back to China's largest e-commerce company, in a deal designed to eliminate complexities that had scuttled the parties' previous negotiations, a person familiar with the matter said.

Google Inc and its board were sued on Monday by a shareholder who wants to block the company's stock split plan because it entrenches the Web search company's co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, according to court documents.

At a company known for a hard-driving culture, a seven-week course in mindfulness techniques is giving employees a better way to cope... Mr. Tan’s first book, “Search Inside Yourself: The Unexpected Path to Achieving Success, Happiness (and World Peace),” is out this month, with a foreword by his friend and S.I.Y. collaborator Daniel Goleman, author of “Emotional Intelligence.” In addition to its United States publication by HarperOne, the book is to be published in 17 markets worldwide, from South Korea to Brazil to Slovenia.

Feeling besieged by pesky little problems today? You might want to be careful with your Google searches.

Shifting from Google's CEO to executive chairman proved to be lucrative career move for Eric Schmidt....