Yahoo was set to unveil on Tuesday a revamped Yahoo Real Estate site that offers interactive maps, access to millions of home valuations, mortgage tools and access to specific information about neighborhoods from Yahoo Local. Yahoo Real Estate will also offer market snapshots that include average home prices, historical price trends, local mortgage interest rates and links to specific neighborhood information on Yahoo Answers.
In addition, Yahoo Search will have shortcuts to listings, mortgage rates and house valuations. Through an agreement Yahoo has with the Prudential, home buyers will be able to search Prudential Real Estate for information on property they see offline.
Web giant is spending $120 million to beef up its Mountain View, Calif., headquarters, according to filings with the city reviewed by the San Jose Mercury News.
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MIT creates a simulation to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Spacewar. A relic of the early days of minicomputers, it was one of the first computer video games and set the stage for many others, including Asteroids.
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