Mobile Search

It has an exclusive agreement with Telefonica Espana to power mobile searches and sponsored-search ads on Telefonica's emocion mobile portal. Yahoo is also buying Citizen Sports, which delivers sports info to customers' social networking sites and mobile devices.

The search engine market is likely to get much hotter in the coming year if Apple (AAPL) adds a mobile search engine as the default option on its popular iPhones. Apple has no choice but to enter that game. The Cupertino, Calif. company has been giving (GOOG) a tremendous branding and revenue...

News came out Friday that Google (GOOG)'s search chief in China, Kai-Fu Lee, was leaving to head a new venture, as reported on DailyFinance. Much speculation about Lee's departure centered on the new venture, but very little focused on what this departure means in real terms for Google. In a...