Juan Carlos PerezAssistant News Editor, IDG News Service

Juan Carlos Perez covers e-commerce, Google, web-application development, and cloud applications for the IDG News Service.

Start menu isn't back in Win 8.1, but some key features are

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Microsoft customers clamoring for the incorporation of the Start button and menu into Windows 8 will get their wish partially fulfilled in the upcoming update of the OS.

Google defends its use of proprietary tech in Hangouts

Box buys iOS app to improve its ownpcworld.com

updatedReport: Yahoo board OKs deal to buy Tumblr for $1.1 billion

Google I/O's Apps news was low-key but significant

Gmail users can now automatically generate Calendar entries

Google outages this week blamed on sign-in system

updatedGoogle Drive hit by three outages this week

Chrome OS update fixes security, video bugs