A top story from this week. Today Yahoo! Music launches the first of three exclusive video interview segments with U2.

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Yahoo Education has a plethora of great reference materials available for pretty much anything you want to look up. Here are just a few of the great resources that…

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Internet giant Google is testing a new service that would expand its television-ad brokering business to YouTube and video on other websites, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.

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It looks like Microsoft has won another round of the hiring game.  Jan O. Pedersen, who used to work for Yahoo and was more recently employed by Amazon subsidiary A9.com, has joined Steve Ballmer’s Redmond-based corporation as chief scientist of Live Search. Pedersen’s got quite a bit of experience in the search field.  After getting a BA in statistics from Princeton and a Ph.D. in the same …

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Google Inc. is jettisoning nearly 200 workers in its largest round of layoffs yet, demonstrating that even highly profitable companies are feeling the recession?s pinch.

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Samsung this week launched a 46-inch LED TV that features the first implementation of Yahoo TV Widgets.

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Google is playing along with the gamer crowd and has unleashed a series of eye-popping video game themes for its iGoogle homepage. Check out the gallery of all 24 themes currently available, pick one, and enjoy the pixilated pleasures provided. Or, if you love ‘em all and can’t make up your mind, use the game of the day option and automatically change your backdrop every 24 hours.

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Carol Bartz hasn’t been shy about her lack of fondness for Yahoo’s products (she has even confessed to using Google Maps). So what’s she doing about it now that she’s running the company?

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A member of the NCAA’s agents and amateurism staff contacted an official at the University of Connecticut on Wednesday morning to request that the university investigate allegations made in a Yahoo! Sports report that detailed potentially major violations and report its findings to the NCAA, an NCAA source told SI.com on Wednesday night.

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Google Inc. prides itself on setting trends, but it appears to be copying some of its smaller rivals with the latest refinements to the way it displays Internet search results.

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