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Yahoo! Scores Firefox From Google

For years, Mozilla Firefox was a key strategic tool for Google , enjoying its spot as the default search provider. That helped boost Google’s search market share during Firefox’s peak and before Google launched Chrome in 2008.

Global Web Users Surge To Nearly 3 Billion This Year

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,

Big investors are increasing their stake in Apple

Institutional ownership in Apple (AAPL) stock is picking up, but it remains below its S&P 500 weighting, indicating there’s room for upside, Morgan Stanley analyst Katy Huberty said in a research report Wednesday. “Top 100 institutional shareholders had an average of 2.5% of their portfolio allocated to Apple exiting Q3, up from 2.3% at the end of Q2,” she said. “This allocation level remains well below the 3.8% weighting of Apple in the S&P 500 and concentration peak of 4.5% seen in Q3 2012.” The quarter-to-quarter improvement in institutional ownership of Apple stock is a positive trend and makes Apple’s recent outperformance in the market more sustainable than it was two years ago, Huberty said. Apple and Microsoft (MSFT) are the only two companies with portfolio allocation among top 100 shareholders below the S&P 500 weighting, she noted. Institutional investors include mutual funds, pension funds, hedge funds and private equity…