SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc's search engine now displays results before users finish typing. The new technology, dubbed Google Instant, can shave two seconds to five seconds off every Internet search, Google said on Wednesday, and could entice users to search more on its website.

SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oracle Corp has offered its new co-president, former Hewlett-Packard chief Mark Hurd, a hiring package with a bonus of up to $10 million and options potentially worth tens of millions more. Oracle, the world's No. 3 software maker, named Hurd co-president on ...

GM, which registered plans for an IPO with U.S. securities regulators in August, also plans a new advertising campaign for OnStar, a subscription service that connects drivers with a live operator at the touch of a button, it said on Wednesday. The new OnStar applications come as GM competes with ...

The characters will be animated by Japanese animation studio Madhouse and broadcast by cartoon channel Animax Broadcast Japan, a Sony Pictures unit, from October 1 in Japan, Nikkei said. By creating animated works based on the Walt Disney Co unit's comics in Japan, Sony Pictures expects to create ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc is offering free shipping and other perks on baby items such as diapers to attract new consumers to its growing subscription service in a burgeoning market. The program, called Amazon Mom, is aimed at new mothers, a consumer segment short on time and often ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Google Inc will launch its service to bring the Web to TV screens in the United States this autumn and worldwide next year, its chief executive said, as it extends its reach from the desktop to the living room. CEO Eric Schmidt said the service, which will allow full Internet ...

The company, which pioneered the delivery of software as a service to companies over the Web, said on Wednesday Chatter Mobile would be available from later this year for Apple devices and Research in Motion's BlackBerry. Chatter, a kind of Facebook for the enterprise, allows company employees to ...

Mobile World Congress, which takes place each February in Barcelona, Spain, will add MacWorld Mobile to its new slate of events focused on developers, who make the small software programs or apps that have become key to phone makers' fortunes. The success of Apple's iPhone and its iPad tablet ...

Google announced in July that it was buying ITA Software, one of the Web's key providers of airline travel software, for $700 million. The concern is that Google could create a travel website, with ITA at its heart, and then use its dominance of search to steer potential travelers to its site ...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - China Mobile shares fell the most in a year after Vodafone sold its stake in the company for $6.5 billion, nearly double what it paid, but analysts expect the stake sale to have no major impact on the Chinese firm. Vodafone's lock-up period on its 3.2 percent stake in the ...