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Summer's heating up, but apparently the stock market didn't get that memo. Still, there are plenty of places for burned investors to find respite. In this series, we highlight companies with the potential to warm up your portfolio's returns. Google (GOOG) is hot -- even if its stock is cold. In...

Yahoo's analyst day Wednesday addressed the steps the struggling Internet pioneer is taking to reposition the ship and revive its sagging stock, but on the subject of a controversial transaction involving one of its major Asian investments, its executives left a number of questions unanswered.

Youku, the highly promising Chinese online-video site, had the strongest first-day rally of anyone on a U.S. exchange since China's Baidu in 2005. But the flip side to promise is risk -- and the risks of pinning big hopes on Youku are also big.

The EC says it's launching a formal, in-depth investigation into Google's treatment of search rivals, setting the stage for yet another potential legal entanglement over whether Google is unfairly taking advantage of its dominant market position.

Google has again denied that it's building a Facebook-like service, this time in comments made by its head of mobile product development, reports Reuters. The executive, Hugo Barra, reiterated that Google's plans involve adding social media layers to its current products.

A group of private-equity investors is calling on the CEO of Chinese Internet giant Alibaba Group to throw his support behind a buyout offer for Yahoo, Reuters reports. Alibaba founder Jack Ma is reportedly considering his options regarding the U.S. firm that holds a 40% stake in his company.

In August, Microsoft's Bing overtook Yahoo as the No. 2 U.S. Internet search engine for the first time, according to a Nielson report. Bing has been rapidly rising in popularity since its launch in June of last year. Can it give Google a run for the top spot?

Here comes a faster Google. The search giant announced today a new enhancement called Google Instant that's designed to shave two to five seconds off a typical search query.

Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) posted its strongest sequential revenue growth in more than a year, outpacing Wall Street expectations as the Internet search advertising business showed signs of recovery from the global recession. Shares of Google, which have risen nearly 15 percent in recent weeks,...