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Yahoo May Establish Data Center In Nebraska

La Vista is located near the eastern edge of Nebraska.  Its Wikipedia page makes it sound like a pleasant enough place, and if the implications of some recent reports are right, the city is about to get a big boost courtesy of Yahoo.

Facebook Picking Up New Offices

As charts tracking Facebook's growth have gone up and up, it's only natural that the company's employee count would do something similar.  Now, in order to accommodate everyone, Facebook's taking over some offices in the Stanford Research Park.

Trulia Takes In More Funding

Which would you research more: a seemingly safe purchase when you have lots of cash, or a risky one when the economy's bad?  It makes a great deal of sense, then, that real estate site Trulia has just raised $15 million in funding.

Google Consolidating Denver And Dallas Offices

Google's recurring physical expansions may have gone a little too far.  There's word that the search giant now plans to shrink a bit by closing offices in Denver and Dallas.

Google Adds To Its New York Office Space

Converted into acres (1.15), the area doesn't sound so impressive.  Look at it in another unit of measurement, though, and Google's 50,000 square feet of fresh office space starts to seem like a lot.

The Internet's Influence For Home Buyers

Just what we want to hear - bad news about the housing market, but this time online. Turns out online searches didn’t have as significant impact on homebuying or renting decisions as we may have hoped. That doesn’t necessarily mean real estate sites should pull back their budgets though.

Google Maps Offers Real Estate Listings

Realtors have had a hard time these past six or so months; as the housing market crashed, the competition for buyers grew fierce.  Now Google's making things even more interesting by introducing a real estate search option on the main page of Google Maps.

Scammers Target Craigslist Realtor

Newspaper classifieds have a friend in scammers. Though hemorrhaging sales to Craigslist, fraudulent posters there may drive legitimate businesspeople back to where they've done business for decades.

Trulia Obtains A Street View

Try to search for a house.  Checkboxes concerning prices, square footage, and the number of bathrooms can only take you so far - hundreds of results might show up.  You can peer at tiny, cropped photos, but that's not great, either.  So a new deal between Google and Trulia brings Street View into the picture.

Real Estate Sites Drawing Traffic Due To Foreclosures

Real estate Web sites are featuring a growing number of homes that are in pre-foreclosure and foreclosure. In March, Yahoo Real Estate launched a site focused on foreclosures with Realty Trac broadening the reach of information to nearly 500 million global users. "The goal for you as a buyer is to purchase a property at least 20 percent below full market value, although better deals are often possible," reads Yahoo's site.