The Internet information superhighway is sure getting more crowded. That should mean happy days are ahead for global Internet bigwigs Google (GOOGL), Facebook (FB), Baidu (BIDU) and Microsoft (MSFT), among others. The worldwide Internet user penetration rates this year is set to shatter the 40% mark for the first time, as 2.89 billion users are expected to have used the Web in 2014,
Yahoo stock was up in midday trading Thursday on word that its search service has replaced No. 1 search provider Google (GOOGL) as the default search engine on the Firefox mobile and desktop Web browsers in the U.S. Under a deal announced late Wednesday, Yahoo (YHOO) CEO Marissa Mayer called the five-year partnership with Firefox maker Mozilla Corp. “the most significant partnership for Yahoo in five years” and said the alliance will help the
What’s coming down the road? Cars as robots, more or less. The L.A. Auto Show kicked off Tuesday with press days focused on the technology of the “connected car,” which will eventually help lead to self-driving cars, like those that Google (GOOGL) and recent auto-tech IPO Mobileye (MBLY) have been working on. Volvo, for one, showcased in a news conference Tuesday that, like Google, its cars can drive themselves now — following