Yahoo tries to attract search queries via a new service which offers visual webpage previews rather than lists of links

Google just overhauled its Google+ iPhone app. Whereas previous updates had been primarily concerned with adding functionality (like video-chat "hangouts"), this time the search giant says it's all about the "sensory" experience. Google describes the Google+ 2.0.0.558 update (that's really the version number) as taking full advantage of the mobile experience. "We're not interested in a mobile or social experience that's just smaller," Google's blog post reads. "We're embracing the sensor-rich smartphone (with its touchable screen and high-density display), and transforming Google+ into something more intimate, and more expressive." The entire interface has been reworked from top to bottom. At launch, the app still takes you to your stream, but every post in that stream now puts photos front and center, with larger, crisper type on text. Importantly, text now overlays the top...

Apple announced that 25 billion apps have been downloaded from its App Store.

Apps containing racy or sexual content are to be purged from the Windows Phone app store if developers do not make changes.