Sharon Gaudin

With its new search/browser app Axis, Yahoo is trying to change the search game, while also trying to change its image as a troubled company.

Late in the day Wednesday, Yahoo launched Axis, which it's calling a "search browser." Axis is an HTML5-based browser app, as well as a browser plug-in, that delivers search results as images rather than as links.

In its third day of trading, Facebook's stock is still in a slump, taking the shine off the frenzy that led up to the company's initial public offering (IPO) last week.

After closing just slightly above $34 a share on Monday, the company's stock was trading at below $31.50 per share a half hour before the market close. The high for today was $33.59 a share.

This probably isn't how Facebook envisioned its initial public offering would roll out.

The first hours of the social networking company's IPO got off to a shaky start yesterday with the share price wavering around the $40 mark, never gaining the astronomical momentum that had been anticipated by many. The stock closed in its first day of trading at $38.23, 23 cents above its initial share price.

After all the buildup, Facebook's long-anticipated initial public offering is finally here.

Facebook stock is set to begin trading with the stock symbol FB on the Nasdaq Stock Market at 11 a.m. ET. That means Wall Street has had an hour and a half after the market normally opens at 9:30 to prepare for what is expected to be a deluge of Facebook-centered trading activity today. See a livestream of the Facebook launch at Nasdaq.

Mark Zuckerberg typically wears hooded sweatshirts.Of all the things discussed and analyzed surrounding Facebook's upcoming initial public offering, perhaps the most surprising -- or just plain funniest -- is co-founder Mark Zuckerberg's hoodie.

Facebook launched a pre-IPO roadshow this week, meeting with investors in New York, Boston and other cities to pitch the company's stock to potential investors.

The row over Yahoo's leadership intensified over weekend as another major investor called for CEO Scott Thompson to be fired.

Scott Thompson

Calls for Thompson's firing started last week after Yahoo disclosed that its board is investigating a discrepancy in the CEO's resume. The investigation prompted a very public debate over Thompson's ability to continue to lead the struggling company.

All the momentum and vision that Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson has been building for the struggling company may have been thrown off course.

Yahoo chief Scott ThompsonYahoo said late Thursday that its board of directors is looking into a discrepancy in the new CEO's resume that likely means big trouble not just for Thompson but for the company that he's been steering since January.

Google plans to move ahead with its self-driving car technology and hopes to get a hand from the folks in Detroit.

Anthony Levandowski, head of Google's self-driving car project, told an audience at the Society of Automotive Engineers conference last week that the company is looking for partners to help it get autonomous cars on the road within the next decade, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal.

Twitter released updated iPhone and Android apps Thursday that make it easier for users to search and find new information.

With a growing number of people tweeting and checking tweets on the train, at the local coffee shop and even in the movie theater, mobile apps are increasingly important to Twitter. And the company took note of that with today's updated apps.

With the launch of Google Drive this week, IT managers can look forward to a potential new productivity tool -- and some significant headaches, analysts say.

Google Tuesday took the wraps off Google Drive, a cloud cloud storage service that will provide users with 5GB of free storage space, or more at monthly fees of up to $50 for 1TB.

Facebook on Monday continued its latest spending spree by agreeing to pay Microsoft about $550 million for some 650 former AOL patents and patent applications.

The deal comes just a couple of weeks after Facebook agreed to buy mobile photo-sharing app Instagram for about $1 billion.

Craigslist hasn't changed its look much over the past several years.

In fact, the Craigslist site of 10 or 12 years ago pretty much looks just like it does today. The online classified ad site hasn't seen the major redesigns, feature adds and makeovers like those that have riled up Facebook's users time and again in recent years.