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A leading U.S. lawmaker on online privacy issues said Thursday he would ask for a probe into whether recently announced changes in how Google handles consumer data violated an agreement with the Federal Trade Commission.

Motorola Mobility Inc posted a quarterly loss after it warned earlier this month that it was having a tough time competing in the smartphone market amid intense competition from rivals such as the Apple Inc iPhone.

YouTube, the world's most popular online video-sharing site, is showing inexorable growth. Google announced that people watch 4 billion videos on YouTube per day. And every minute, 60 hours of videos are getting uploaded. To celebrate this achievement, YouTube has launched a special comic-cartoony site (http://www.onehourpersecond.com/) to show what one hour per second means in various situation.

Internet search engine giant Google has announced that they plan to unify almost 60 services (such as Gmail, YouTube, Calendar, Docs, Google+, Google Search, Google Maps, etc) to provide a simpler and more intuitive Google experience under one privacy policy. Chrome browser, Google Books and Google Wallet are excluded from the unified services.

Tablet computers using Google's Android software narrowed the lead of Apple's iPad on the global market in the fourth quarter, research firm Strategy Analytics said on Thursday.

Google Inc, which revolutionized Internet searches with an easy-to-use website, has itself become an increasingly tricky business to grasp.

Search giant Google announced on Tuesday a change in its privacy policy. The new one will allow itto know far more about who you are and what you do on the Web.

The Internet search engine giant Google will update its privacy policy and terms of service (TOS), granting it explicit right to combine personal information across multiple products and services, the company announced, Tuesday, on its official blog.

Booming demand for the latest iPhone model helped Apple beat all phones using Google's Android platform in the U.S. smartphone market in the fourth quarter, data showed on Wednesday.

Google Inc plans to unify its privacy policy and terms of service across its online offerings, including its flagship search, Gmail and Google+ products, to make them easier to use, but the move could attract greater scrutiny from anti-trust regulators.

Internet search engine giant Google has poured out $9.7 million on lobbying U.S. lawmakers and regulators in 2011, according to Google's latest bill in U.S. Senate Office of Public Records.

At the 2012 DLD Conference in Munich, Germany, one of the founders of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, spoke in detail about Twitter's primary capabilities as well as some of their goals for the year. Dorsey also spoke briefly about his newest venture, Square, which allows merchants to accept credit cards on their mobile phones.

Shares of wireless developer InterDigital plunged more than 20 percent Tuesday after the company announced an end to a six-month auction. Has the gold rush in IP ended?

The tech giant Apple has reportedly burned $100 million against HTC in the first round of the legal battle between them, Newsweek columnist Dan Lyons wrote, Monday, on his blog.

After conducting an in-depth study, Research In Motion Ltd.'s (NASDAQ: RIMM) new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Thorsten Heins will conclude that a significant restructuring is necessary, as the company cannot otherwise compete with Apple Inc. and Google Inc.'s Android operating system, said brokerage firm Jefferies.

Facebook, Twitter and MySpace developers, in partnership with several unnamed social networks, have released a software called Don't Be Evil, meant to integrate their networks into Search Plus Your World - a new feature by Google.

InterDigital Inc said it had failed to find any takers for the entire company, but would continue to look for buyers for its patent portfolio and enter licensing partnerships.

Facebook, one of the many companies that opposed the SOPA bill, contributed $1.35 million to lobbyists last year. The sum pails in comparison to Google, which spent $9.98 million, and Microsoft, which spent $7.34 million over the course of the year.

Google+ will be allowing people to use pseudonyms after all. The announcement comes after months of strict enforcement of the rule that required Google+ users to use a real identity.

Focus on the User--a group of developers from Facebook, Twitter, Myspace and other social networking sites--has created a bookmarklet that can be added to any web browser and adds Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Quora, Tumblr, Foursquare, LinkedIn, Myspace, among other social networks to Google search results. The service was built as a proof of concept that social content could be added to Google's search results.

President Barack Obama will be hosting a Google Hangout session on January 30th at 9 p.m. (EST) in addition to offering an enhanced version of the State of the Union speech on January 24 at 9 p.m. (EST).

YouTube, Google Inc's video website, is streaming 4 billion online videos every day, a 25 percent increase in the past eight months, according to the company.

YouTube, Google Inc's video website, is streaming 4 billion online videos every day, a 25 percent increase in the past eight months, according to the company.

Fourth-quarter results of Google, Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) missed revenue and earnings expectations as the search-engine giant experienced a drop in search advertising rates.

The massive online protest last Wednesday, in which Wikipedia and thousands of other Web sites closed down or otherwise protested and helped to kill controversial online piracy legislation, was widely heralded as an unprecedented case of a grassroots uprising overcoming backroom lobbying.

Twitter is much more than a social network and has no time to waste worrying about newcomers like Google+ as it becomes more important as an information service and builds its advertising business, co-founder Jack Dorsey said on Sunday.

The Dow industrials and the S&P 500 posted their best week in four even with a mixed finish on Friday after strong earnings from tech bellwethers IBM and Intel contrasted with Google's disappointing quarterly report.

Google Inc's accelerated efforts to carve out a position in the fast-growing mobile and social networking markets leapt into the spotlight Friday, a day after the giant Internet company reported a rare earnings miss.

The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq eased on Friday after Google disappointed on earnings, while the Dow rose with IBM .