Google Inc. has singled out Kansas City, Kan., as its inaugural site for its well coved ultra-fast broadband network program. As per reports, the company had been seaming through over 1,100 proposal for the past one year and has finally selected Kansas city to enhance the accessibility of broadband network by over 100 times as compared to that found in US.

American's largest tax preparer, H&R Block Inc., has posted a slimmer-than-expected loss for the current fiscal year's second-quarter, on the back of a better Tax Services segment results. A quarterly loss of $128.6 Million, or 38 cents per share, was posted, a substantial improvement from the $135.9 Million worth of loss posted for same period last year.