Google on Wednesday added the Zagat restaurant review content to its Google+ social network, as it rolled out a new local search feature that takes on services such as Yelp.

The Internet giant added a "Local" tab to its Google+ social network to allow users to search for specific places or browse for nearby businesses or services.

Silicon Valley stars on Wednesday argued that the mobile-focused Internet startups will shine despite the dim stock market debut by leading social network Facebook.

Facebook, which ended the trading day almost $10 below its Nasdaq debut price of $38 a share, has sparked worry that technology startups are overprice in risky scenario reminiscent of the dot-com bubble burst some 12 years ago.

Oracle boss Larry Ellison said Wednesday that he is out to dethrone IBM in the realm of business network hardware, including high-end computer servers.

"Our biggest competitor is IBM," Ellison said during an on-stage chat with Kara Swisher at the prestigious All Things Digital conference hosted by the Rupert Murdoch-owned technology news website.

Samsung on Tuesday released the first Chrome desktop computer that essentially shifts work into Internet "cloud" using a version of the Google Web browser as its operating system.

Staunch Google partner Samsung unveiled Series 3 Chromebox along with a beefed-up Series 5 Chromebook that is the latest in a line of Chrome-powered laptops introduced last year by Google.

Online retail powerhouse Amazon.com on Tuesday announced a collaboration with Microsoft to begin streaming films and television shows to Xbox 360 videogame consoles.

An "app" was made available for free download to let people with subscriptions to Xbox Live Gold view Amazon Prime video using Microsoft's popular videogame consoles linked to Internet.

Scandal-hit Japanese camera maker Olympus is in separate talks with Sony and Panasonic for a possible tie-up as it looks to rescue itself after a huge losses cover-up, a report said Wednesday.

In a revamp, the company, which also manufactures medical equipment, is also looking to slash 2,500 jobs, the Asahi Shimbun said, without naming its sources.

The agency in charge of website addresses has picked June 13 as the day it will reveal proposed new names for online neighborhoods breaking the ".com" mold.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) said in an online post that it will stop taking applications for Generic Top Level Domains at the end of Wednesday in the GMT time zone and reveal the requests in June.

Iran claimed on Tuesday to have come up with an anti-virus program against "Flame", an extraordinarily sophisticated malware that hit its servers and deployed various spying procedures, apparently at the behest of a foreign power.

"Tools to recognize and clean this malware have been developed and, as of today, they will be available for those (Iranian) organizations and companies who want it," Maher, a computer emergency response team coordination center in Iran's telecommunications ministry, said on its website.

Japan's Renesas Electronics Corp. has reached a deal with electronics maker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. to have TSMC produce chips.

Renesas said Monday in a statement the two companies will work together to develop chips to cut costs while maintaining quality.

A top Russian anti-virus software firm said it had uncovered a new computer virus with unprecedented destructive potential which is being used as a "cyberweapon" against several countries.

Kaspersky Lab, one of the world's biggest producers of anti-virus software, said its experts discovered the virus -- known as Flame -- during an investigation prompted by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU).