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Recent statistics show that police can gain access to a user's Facebook, Google+, Twitter and other social media accounts without the approval of a judge.

A little more than one week after the iOS 6 release date, Apple CEO Tim Cook posted an open letter to users apologizing for any shortcomings in Apple Maps.

News Corp. is reversing its decision to block Google from indexing content from its paywalled UK newspaper, The Times.

Google celebrated its 14th birthday Thursday with a cake doodle and its new Underwater Maps feature.

According to a new report released by The Verge on Wednesday, Apple may have had a full year left in its contract to use Google Maps before the Cupertino giant pulled the plug to introduce its own iOS Maps app.

On Wednesday morning at Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., Gov. Jerry Brown joined Google co-founder Sergey Brin on stage to usher in a new era of self-driving automobiles in America’s Golden State.

Laugh if you dare, but Brazil's strict voting laws don't allow for candidate mocking -- and Google is accused of doing just that.

Google Inc. (Nasdaq: GOOG) is now the 5th biggest U.S. company by market capitalization, leaping from 10th place, where it was on July 14.

The "Sexy Little Geisha" outfit along with the entire Victoria's Secret "Go East" collection was removed for being "racist."

Google (Nasdaq: GOOG), set new a record high of $761.98 Tuesday on expectations that search and advertising gain will propel earnings higher.

Google Inc's (GOOG) Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt Tuesday ruled out rumors of submission of new version of Maps app to Apple (AAPL) that is compatible with the new operating system iOS 6 and averred that Apple's decision to switch to a proprietary Maps application was perhaps a misstep, AppleInsider reported.

Shirley M. Tilghman, Princeton's first woman president, will retire next June. She's a director of Google (Nasdaq: GOOG).

Google Inc. (Nasdaq: GOOG) will shut down its once-popular China music download service on Oct. 19. A move that would benefit local rival Baidu.com Inc. (Nasdaq: BIDU).

YouTube's "Innocence of Muslims" stayed up after a California judge refused a ban, but 19 Pakistanis were killed in demonstrations.

Shares of Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) surged past $700 for the first time, just a year after topping $400. The move brings Apple's market value to about $650 billion, cementing its 2012 role as the world's most valuable company, ahead of Exxon Mobil Corp. (NYSE: XOM).

After Google stopped Acer from launching a phone based on Aliyun OS, described non-compatible with build of Android, Google's Andy Rubin, Senior Vice President, Mobile and Digital Content, continued his fight against Alibaba, which coordinated on Aliyun development with Acer, The Verge reported.

Facebook (Nasdaq: FB), the No. 1 social networking site, had a good week: its shares vaulted 15 percent after CEO Mark Zuckerberg appeared at a forum in San Francisco where he acknowledged mistakes. Now, with Instagram tucked in and commitments for search and mobile, is it a time for another look at half price?

Google Friday refused to comply with the White House request to reconsider its decision to not remove an anti-Islam film from YouTube, Reuters reported.

Fans of the popular BitTorrent site Demonoid were teased earlier this week when the domain's server went through an update, leading many file-sharers to believe the site would be up and running again soon. Although hope isn't dead yet, Demonoid's tech administrator told Torrent Freak that they are "not looking into putting the site back up at the moment."

Google (Nasdaq: GOOG), the No. 1 search engine, said it’s blocked access to the controversial “Innocence of Muslims”on YouTube in countries with large Muslim populations, including India, Libya and Egypt. But Afghanistan's government blocked all access to YouTube, claiming the video is offensive.

Hollywood director Steven Speilberg and actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt hosted an interactive video chat last night where they premiered the trailer for "Lincoln," the highly anticipated historical drama starring Daniel Day-Lewis as the 16th president.

Facebook (Nasdaq: FB) experienced a brief respite this week following several weeks of dismal business prospects and plummeting share prices. Launching an initial beta mode of its new advertising system known as Facebook Exchange Facebook Exchange (FBX), advertising partners revealed good news that might finally reverse the SanFrancisco-based social media giant's post-IPO fortunes: Facebook is now better at gathering advertising clicks from web users than its fellow internet giant and chief r...

Kevin Bacon has starred in major films such as "Mystic River" and "X Men: First Class", but the actor is probably most famous for what has come to be known as the "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" game. Now Google has implemented this widespread joke into its own search engine, allowing users to immediately discover any Hollywood star's bacon number.

Google Inc. and Boingo Wireless Inc., made another bold move Tuesday to position themselves as a prominent resource for wireless services by establishing another 4,000 mobile hotspots across the United States. As a promotional event to advertise the new expanded partnership with the companies are also making Wi-Fi free in all the new locations "through the end of September," Boingo said in a statement.

The worlds of fashion and technology collided on Sunday at the Diane von Furstenberg show at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in New York when the designer presented her modern princess-inspired Spring 2013 collection along with Google co-founder Sergey Brin, who used the show as a launching pad for the latest tech trend, Google Glass.

Amazon's Kindle Fire launched Sept.6, appears to be making news for more wrong reasons than right. After news of the device lacking FCC approval for sale hit anxious customers Friday, the company seems to offer interested parties some respite as it appears to have reversed policy on the forced ads.

Saturday marks the 46th anniversary of the premiere of "Star Trek" (the original television series), and to celebrate the iconic science-fiction show, Google has created a special "Star Trek"-themed doodle, viewable now on its search page.

Microsoft on Thursday evoked the famous Pepsi Challenge marketing campaign when it launched the "Bing It On" challenge, an online blind comparison test in which its Bing search engine goes head to head with Google

Shares of Google (Nasdaq: GOOG), the No. 1 search engine and maker of Motorola phones, set an all-time record high of $700, slightly more than eight years after the Mountain View, Calif.’s initial public offering that raised $1.67 billion.