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This morning, JMP Securities upgraded shares of Yahoo! from market perform to outperform citing its new deal with Microsoft. The firm sees their search partnership helping drive better results for Yahoo! in the coming quarters. With the upgrade, JMP set a price target of $21 per share.

European Union data privacy regulators are telling Google Inc. to warn people before it sends cameras out into cities to take pictures for its Street View maps, adding to the company's legal worries in Europe....

Yahoo! and the micro-blogging site Twitter have struck a content-sharing deal, they announced Wednesday -- a plan that will share real-time tweets with the 600 million users in Yahoo's global network.

A Chinese vocational school has denied a report it was a source of recent cyber attacks on Internet giant Google and other U.S. corporations, Xinhua news agency said on Saturday.

U.S. and European regulators have cleared the long-discussed Internet search partnership between Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc., enabling the rivals to form a tag team as they try to mount a more serious challenge to Google Inc....

Google co-founder Sergey Brin on Friday said he's optimistic that his search engine will not have to pull out of China over hacking and censorship issues.

Google plans to build and test broadband networks than could deliver speeds more than 100 times faster than what most Americans use.

Google long has been an advocate of a single Web, one that's free of government censorship and barriers to information access.

Officials at the National Security Agency have been working with Google to investigate the cyber attacks that Google believes originated in China.

The Associated Press has signed a licensing deal with Yahoo Inc. that gives the news cooperative a steady stream of revenue at a time less money is flowing in from newspapers and broadcasters.