What do you do when you first fire up your browser? Most probably, you log into various sites that require a username and password – Facebook, Gmail, Twitter and the like.

Forbes has released its annual list of the world’s billionaires and when it comes to technology, the list includes many of the same faces we see year after year .

Twitter has just flipped the switch on geolocation within Twitter.com. Now at least some users can pull up location-based information from individual tweets on the microblogging website. While attaching locations to tweets has been possible for several months now through third-party apps , Twitter.com itself hasn’t done much geolocation until today

Google has announced that it has added a new content source to its real-time search feature: Facebook Pages. Google launched real-time search in December , providing a real-time feed of information from Yahoo Answers, Twitter, blogs, news websites, and other sources for hot or trending search results.

An hour ago, we learned that Twitter and Yahoo struck a content-sharing deal . Now we have details on what that exactly entails.

Today at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference in San Francisco, Apple COO Tim Cook revealed that the iPad will be available at multiple retail locations soon after launch, including Best Buy. In his Q&A at the conference, Mr

Twitter has sealed a content-sharing deal with Yahoo, the world’s third largest website and second largest search engine, according to The Los Angeles Times . The deal is different than the Twitter-Google and Microsoft-Twitter search partnerships. It’s a wider-ranging content-sharing deal that will place Twitter information all across Yahoo’s properties, although exactly what it will look like remains to be seen

Are Google search results purely algorithmic, or does the “do no evil” empire occasionally inject editorial oversight in the name of stifling competition? According to three European companies – one of which is owned by Microsoft – the latter is true, and according to The Telegraph , their allegations have led the European Commission to launch an investigation into the search giant.

The average U.S. Internet user spends more time on Facebook than on Google, Yahoo, YouTube, Microsoft, Wikipedia, and Amazon combined