New York, Nov. 11 : An image of Google CEO Eric Schmidt flanking U. S. President-elect Barack Obama during his first post-election press conference is being with alarm by Google’s competitors.

“This terrifies Microsoft. There’s a reason why people are scared to death of Google,” Politico quoted a Democratic lobbyist familiar with the industry, as saying.

Friday''s press conference Friday came just two days after Google threw in the towel on an attempted Internet advertising partnership with Yahoo.

New York, Nov. 11 : U. S. President-elect Barack Obama will not attend the Bush administration’s global financial summit this weekend in Washington, his senior aide Robert Gibbs said on Monday.

"He''s very interested and thought it was very good to have the meeting. But in a phrase you''ll hear in exceedingly large numbers of times between now and the 20th of January, there''s only one president at a time," Politico quote Gibbs, as saying.

Onboard Air India One, Nov. 11: The Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, on Tuesday, refuted media reports that he had been snubbed by U. S. President elect Barack Obama.

Reacting to news that Obama had failed to call him after receiving his good wishes on being elected as the 44th President of the United States, Dr. Singh said this was untrue.

He said the fact was that he was travelling to Oman and Qatar, and therefore, he was not in a position to receive a phone call from Obama.

In a strikingly symbolic moment in the historic transition of power in Washington, the outgoing President Bush and first lady, Laura, greeted President-elect Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, with smiles and handshakes, as they stepped from their limousine to begin a tour of their home for the next four years, after Obama is sworn in on January 20.

New Delhi, Nov 11: U. S. President-elect Barack Obama''s two young daughters have been offered a guest spot on popular kids television show ‘Hannah Montana.’

Billy Ray Cyrus, the father of "Hannah Montana" star Miley Cyrus and also an actor on the hit Disney Channel show, said the show had invited Malia, 10, and Sasha Obama,
7, to appear in an episode possibly around April, reports China Daily.

Kolkata, Nov. 11:South African Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer has hailed US President-elect Barack Obama''s victory as an end of racism.

Gordimer, 84, is in India to deliver the second Nobel laureate lecture, an initiative of the Ministry of External Affairs to provide an opportunity for Indian academics and opinion makers to interact with Nobel laureates and also enable the Nobel laureates to be exposed to the emergence of a new India.