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Google made it clear how important Indian small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are for the internet search engine giant as it unveiled its new products customized for SMEs.

The company offered to take up the SMEs on an individual basis to demonstrate them how to advertise cost-effectively with Google. It also extended its free ad coupons offer across the country.

Family car, with the use of this latest technology, can now become a money minting machine.

The technology, which has been developed in the US, allows the cars to use stored power, which can then be sold like electricity, for money.

The new technology was unveiled during the annual meeting of American Association for the Advancement of Science. Here the scientists showed how the power generated in cars can be shifted to power grids.

On Friday, Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to discuss various issue relating to All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS).

The PM expressed his concern over the increased number of people leaving AIIMS to join private hospitals.

At least 10 senior AIIMS doctors have resigned over the past one year to take up posts in private medical institutes.

Majority of doctors are not happy with the Government, since the Valiathan Committee recommendations that came two years ago, have not been implemented yet.

In Sydney, World's leading electronic appliances company Sony unveiled its new camera. Sony Australia's new cyber shot camera has been named as TX5. Branded as the world's slimmest and the smallest digital waterproof camera is all set to conquer the competitive markets of the digital camera.

The new camera except for offering the usual high quality image benefits and the trendy design will also have durability and toughness on their hands to offer.

United States and European regulators gave green light to a deal between Microsoft and Yahoo to integrate their search engine operations in a bid to challenge the invincible status of Google.

The agreement, which was announced last year, was pending, subject to regulatory approval as the pact was viewed detrimental in the interest of consumer and to the competition. The pact was struck in July 2009 for a period of the 10-year to take on Google, which controls about 65 per cent of the US search market.

Nestlé SA, the world's largest food company, said sales growth will accelerate in 2010 as the company expects higher advertising to culminate into increased sales. Nestlé, which recently bought Kraft Foods Inc.'s frozen-pizza business, clocked a full year net profit of 10.42 billion Swiss francs ($9.67 billion) from 18.04 billion francs in 2008.

The figures are not comparable as the year-earlier figures were inflated by a substantial gain from the part-sale of US eye care-company Alcon Inc. to Novartis.