Microsoft's new Bing "decision engine," unveiled Thursday by Chief Executive Steve Ballmer, is being positioned as an alternative to the busy, confusing search engines of today.

KOKOMO, Ind., March 28 -- Over the last month, city officials in this auto-dependent town of roughly 46,000, 50 miles north of Indianapolis, wrote, called and e-mailed Washington to try to get the attention of Ed Montgomery...

Google has previewed a new technology called Wave that combines collaboration with chat, e-mail, event planning, document sharing, and nearly anything else you can think of...

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Microsoft Corp. on Thursday offered Internet users a first glimpse at Bing, its fresh attempt to gain ground in the online search market. Bing is a search engine to replace its current Live Search product...

Yahoo! is likely to buy its way into social networking, and it accepts that Google has won the search game. Ari Balogh, Yahoo's chief technology officer, told Reuters Global Technology Summit: "I can guarantee you there will be some acquisitions...

Microsoft next week is expected to give the first public demonstration of Kumo, the revamped, rebranded Live Search property that's aimed at slowing Google's runaway success in the search market.

Microsoft has raised $3.75 billion in extra cash through its first ever sale of bonds. The software giant says it plans to spend the money on "general corporate purposes,"...