Watch: TechBytes 5.17.12
Google introduces their new "knowledge graph" search function.

A look at tech companies with recent IPOs
Here's a look at how some companies that had initial public offerings of stock since January 2011 are faring. The companies are all loosely Internet-related, though their businesses vary widely.

News Summary: Facebook stock up, co. faces suits

PRICING: Facebook Inc.'s fourth day of trading as a public company saw an increase in the company's stock price, after declines on Monday and Tuesday. The stock climbed $1, or 3.2 percent, to close at $32 on Wednesday.

Google Doodle's Playable Synth
If you were a little less productive at work the day Google had that cool Les Paul Doodle on its homepage — you know, the one that let you record your own guitar riffs — be prepared to lose even more time today. In celebration...

HP to lay off about 27,000, profit slides 31 percent

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Hewlett Packard Co plans to lay off roughly 27,000 employees or about 8 percent of its workforce over the next couple of years to jumpstart growth and save up to $3.5 billion annually, sending its shares 11 percent higher. The company said the layoffs would be made mainly through early retirement and would generate annual savings of $3 billion to $3.5 billion as it exits fiscal year 2014, when the layoffs are expected to the completed. The world's No. ...

Apple iPhone Designer Is Now a Knight
Jony Ive, the man who designed the iPod and the iPhone, might already be considered technology royalty amongst geeks.  Now he’s an actual British knight. Apple’s lead designer, was knighted this morning in London and given the title of Knight Commander of the British Empire....