[AP] - Google is accelerating its search engine by displaying the results as soon as users begin to type in their requests. The new "Instant Search' introduced Wednesday means people will start to see an ever-evolving set of results in the middle of the page with each character they type into the search box.

[at AllThingsD] - As Yahoo seeks to sort out its women's strategy online, Brandon Holley--the editor-in-chief of its main women-focused site, Shine--is leaving for a job with the same title at Condé Nast's Lucky magazine.

[at CNBC] - Takeover rumors are swirling around Sohu.com, and upside call buyers are stepping in.

[at MarketWatch] - Tech stocks mostly rise, but UBS casts a shadow on part of the sector after the brokerage cut its ratings on Hewlett-Packard Co., Intel Corp. and several others.

[at Motley Fool] - Bing-powered searches account for nearly one-quarter of all searches. But is it enough to matter?

[at Fortune] - I've been telling my friends and colleagues on Verizon to wait for the Samsung Fascinate.  I'm sorry, I was wrong.  Get something else. The latest Google Android phone from Verizon is saddled with Bing for all of its search features according to Engadget's review this morning.  As Google is the maker of Android, and incorporates its search engine into [...]

[paidContent.org] - The Atlantic is the latest to mine for gold in the iPad App Store with single issues for sale at $4.99—but that’s just one part of a grander digital scheme. In coming weeks, the magazine publisher plans to convert single-issue app sales to an iPad digital newsstand app—and to launch Atlantic Premium, a daily bundle of everything the magazine produces online for a monthly access fee.

[at Forbes] - Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has hired an in-house reporter.

[at AllThingsD] - Do we really need another pop culture site? Sure, says Wetpaint CEO Ben Elowitz. His pitch: We'll build a better mousetrap -- one that covers ever flickering detail about the likes of "Glee" and "The Jersey Shore" -- using "data and science".