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Russia's leading search company -- and the world's seventh-biggest search engine -- has recently completed its initial public offering, opening at higher-than-expected US$ 25 per share and raising US$ 1.3 billion in the process.

Google has acquired a six-month-old electronics price comparison website called sparkbuy (news, site).

This week, Kofax decided to enhance its SDK with the acquisition of Atalasoft, Nuance upgrades to OmniPage 18, Microsoft tells us why Office 365 is good for Mac, First to File extends patent document management reach and Google looks set to introduce Google Docs Offline this summer -- again.

This week Google fans got an update to the Social Search feature, a tweak to their chat lists and what might be a peek into Android's future.

Google (news, site) is fiercely protective of its search business. While Facebook, with its social media supremacy, perpetually looms over the horizon as a potential arch-nemesis, Google is continuing to add features that make search more social. The big G has just rolled out social search to more languages and locales.

Malware authors are increasingly targeting a wide array of devices, as evident with recent news of malware infestation in Google's Android Market. While smartphone and tablet security software are only starting to become popular among consumers, Wedge Networks has a solution that will address malicious sofware at its source.

What do users do with news content? And how do they get their news? These are questions that a recent in-depth study by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism sought to answer. The study examined the top 25 news websites in popularity in the United States, and what they found may help us restructure the way we publish news.

Mobile technologies seem to develop at an advanced pace. A little over a year ago, we were introduced to the iPad and, since then, it’s been non-stop mobile innovation. What will the next wave of mobile technology bring, and are there elements that could bring mobile innovation to a full stop? Let’s have a look.

This week, SAP brings business analytics to GRC, researchers in Germany say they have identified a security hole in Android, Autonomy has bought the digital assets of Iron Mountain, VMWare has been on the acquisition trail and Compliance 360 releases Universal Assessments.

Kwaga's (news, site) newest feature for Gmail identifies changes in the signatures of incoming emails and automatically updates a user's Gmail address book.

Welcome to another week of Google. This time around we discussed the ever-popular Google I/O Conference, the new Google Chrome OS notebook from Samsung, and some scary browser vulnerabilities. 

Facebook copped this week to hiring public relations firm Burson-Marsteller in what turned out to be a failed attempt to encourage the press to write about supposed privacy issues with Google applications, causing a wave of mea culpas to sweep over the industry.

We earlier reported that Google (news, site) has set aside US$ 500 million from its 1Q 2011 earnings for a possible settlement with the Department of Justice for a yet-undisclosed issue. Sources indicate that this is likely due to Google's running of ads from illegal pharmacies.

In the world of office productivity suites, where content and collaboration professionals aim to make users as efficient as possible, Microsoft Office is still way ahead of the pack when it comes to deployment. But there are many alternatives on the market now, which, according to new research by Forrester, are being tried out by companies, if not fully deployed -- not yet, that is.

The Google I/O Conference in San Francisco ended yesterday. In case you caved and blinked at any point over the last 48 hours, we've wrapped up the highlights: