For true Apple fans, a trip to an Apple store is more than a chance to buy a shiny new toy; it’s an ‘outing’. Apple stores are every bit as iconic as the computers and phones that they sell and landing a job in one is harder than getting into Harvard. Of the 10,000 applications that Apple receives from people seeking work in an Apple store, only 200 are hired

Leave it to Google to come up with something that works flawlessly—so far at least. The search engine giant started development of its ‘self-driving’ car many moons ago it seems but thanks to a bit of dedication and millions of dollars, the car is now clocking mile after mile. To date the self-driving car has gone 300,000 miles without an accident, a feat Google is very happy to talk up.

Fashion and glamor startups are taking the spotlight at the moment and more and more players seem to be entering the space. We’ve written extensively about Fab.com; now another player in the form of Polyvore is on the radar

This past May, Google go the go-ahead from regulators to acquire Motorola Mobility.

Sedo is one of the top domain name selling companies on the world wide web today. They are constantly being noted for the big or unique sales that occur on a weekly basis. They sell numerous domain names per week to various individuals and companies.

Google didn’t invent search, but in many ways the tech giant has perfected it. When other search engines labored on how to deliver results in a fancy way, Google kept it simple and relevant. That very skeletal, yet effective approach has helped Google become the world’s most popular search engines and one of the world’s biggest companies by Market Cap.

Marissa Mayer doesn’t have a lot to work with at Yahoo and given the state of the company, the only direction she can it is up—or so one would hope. The former Google employee was appointed by to replace Scott Thompson who as it turned out, wasn’t worth his name on paper.

Truth be told, Google Chrome is becoming a resource hog that doesn’t play very well with Flash, but this hasn’t stopped the browser from pummeling the competition. Users it seem can tolerate both those shortcomings if it means not putting up with the shortcomings of Internet Explorer and Firefox