A firm owned by billionaire Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen today sued Apple, Facebook, Google, YouTube, and seven other companies, charging them with infringing patents filed more than a decade ago. Read more »

In his latest article, Robert D. Hof, in the In Depth section of the Business Week on October 1-2009, examines and presents key issues that affects the dominance of Google in the search engines. Another interesting point that he examines is the reason Google has become such a powerhouse isn’t just because its search technology is exceptional. It’s because the company perfected a way to match advertisements to its search results. Read more »