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Stocks tumbled on Monday as political brinkmanship in Washington over the debt ceiling sparked fears of a U.S. rating downgrade, sending world equities lower and pushing gold to a record high.

Google Inc has removed excerpts of customer reviews from sites such as Yelp and TripAdvisor from Google Places, its competing online service aimed at helping consumers search for local businesses.

Apart from Apple Inc.'s iPhone, some of the most talked-about smartphones right now include the sleek Samsung-built Android phone Google Nexus S and Motorola Droid 3.

The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: InterDigital, Express Scripts, Alaska Communications Systems Group,Mellanox Technologies, and BioSante Pharmaceuticals. The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: Travelzoo, Seagate Technology, LM Ericsson Telephone, F5 Networks, and The Cheesecake Factory.

Samsung is expected to launch four versions of the smartphone in the U.S. in July, and is expected to provide stiff competiton to the iPhone 5, which is expected in September.

Google+, Facebook, MySpace and everything in between.

Google reported its strongest quarter in several years, with revenue and earnings handily exceeding all expectations, driven by core search and momentum in display and mobile businesses.

The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: Asia Entertainment & Resources, Google, Sino Clean Energy, Vical, and Carrizo Oil & Gas. The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: Seattle Genetics, Qlik Technologies, Logitech International, ICAgen, and Corinthian Colleges.

Google+, Google's newly launched social network, has strong momentum, but could result in higher marketing spending and limit margin improvement.

Though just a few days old the social network Google+ already connects more than 10 million people as Larry Page of Google announced together with the company results of Q2 2011.

Search giant Google Inc’s (GOOG) second quarter earnings and revenue beat Wall Street expectations.

The top after-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: Google, Vical, Asia Entertainment & Resources, Extreme Networks, and Resources Connection. The top after-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: FLIR Systems, Life Partners Holdings, Seattle Genetics, Shengkai Innovations, and Xyratex.

The U.S. market is still waiting for the arrival of Samsung Galaxy S2, which is gaining credibility and good reviews from other parts of the world. So Apple Inc.'s most-expected iPhone 5 will be facing the Samsung phone in smartphone battle.

A new study says Google and other search engines have an effect on people's memories.

Indian government has asked Google Inc, Skype and other social networking sites to comply with the security agencies requirement—to allow their user to services to guard against terrorism and other crimes, a minister said on Wednesday.

Apart from Apple Inc.'s iPhone 5, the most expected Android smartphones are Samsung Galaxy S2, Motorola Droid Bionic and HTC Thunderbolt 4G. So which is the best Android smartphone that will emerge the winner in the United States?

Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) has longer-term disadvantages in a tablet and cloud world as Dell is not focused on tablets and is well behind Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) in developing a full cloud stack, Jefferies said in a note to clients.

Search giant Google, Inc.'s (NASDAQ:GOOG) earnings and revenue could exceed Wall Street expectations, when it reports second-quarter financial results on July 14, driven by market share gains in search, display ads and mobile categories.

The Samsung Galaxy S2 smartphone is expected to launch in the U.S. in mid-July, following the HTC Thunderbolt. But how do the two stack up?

Apple Inc. is gearing up production of the iPhone 5, but some analysts say it's unlikely to be revealed before 2012. Yet there seems little doubt, considering Apple's projection of selling 25 million iPhones by the end of 2011, that the release is right around the corner.

Apple Inc.'s delay of launching the next version of iPhone, iPhone 5, has been Samsung Galaxy S 2's gain as the ultra-thin smartphone recorded phenomenal global sales of 3 million units in 55 days in the UK and it is expected to launch in four versions in the US.

Google Inc.'s new social networking site Google+ has suffered its first major flaw on Saturday, when users received email notification multiple times.

Apple Inc. is expected to release its much-awaited iPhone 5 in September, after the latest member of Verizon’s Droid family, Motorola Droid 3, which is expected to begin in-store sales on July 14. The California-based Apple will still face the heat from Droid 3 among smartphones.

Google+ is getting praises from privacy experts.

Morgan Stanley downgraded Google Inc a notch to equal-weight, saying the search giant's margins will shrink as it undertakes aggressive hiring and ramps up advertising for new products.

The companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trade on Friday are: Travelers Companies, Chesapeake Energy, Analog Devices, Frontier Communications, TJX Companies, Marathon Petroleum, United Technologies, MEMC Electronic Materials, Google, Kohl's and Denbury Resources.

The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Geron, Alkermes, Intersil, and SodaStream International. The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: Ixia, SemiLEDs, Aixtron, Cree, Virgin Media, ARM Holdings, and Google.

The combination of YouTube's user generated content and Hulu's professional content could deliver strong synergies for Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG), Barclays Capital said.