Globally, Google’s Chrome browser has finally surpassed Mozilla’s Firefox, according to November browser usage data from mobile analytics service Global StatCounter. Based on aggregate data collected on a sample exceeding 15 billion page views per month -- four billion from the United States -- Chrome had a global Web browsing share of 25.69% in November compared to Firefox’s 25.23%, the service reports. “Compare this to November 2009 when Chrome had just 4.66 percent share,” 9to5Google remarks. “You could argue that such an important milestone for Chrome has been a long time coming, but you have to consider that Chrome is just three years old …

Is Apple really going to start selling TVs? You can bet the bank on it, Apple analyst Gene Munster reiterated this week. Reporting from a Business Insider conference on Wednesday, Henry Blodget wrote: “Gene is so sure an Apple TV is coming that he told anyone in the audience who is thinking of buying a TV to wait, because Apple's is going to be awesome.” Due out next year, Munster promised that the TV will be Apple to the core -- “not an external gadget like the current Apple TV that you have to plug into your TV set,” Blodget …

By most reports, Yahoo is only looking to sell a minority stake in the company. That, however, isn’t stopping a consortium -- including Blackstone Group and Bain Capital, along with China's Alibaba Group and Japan's Softbank Corp -- from preparing a formal takeover bid. The bid, as multiple sources tell Bloomberg and Reuters, could value Yahoo at more than $20 a share because of tax savings tied to its stakes in Alibaba and Yahoo Japan. Yahoo’s board is meeting to discuss offers it received for a minority stake from bidders including TPG Capital and a group led by Silver Lake, …