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LG Electronics has announced its coalition with Google to launch its own Google TV. LG is the latest entry to Google's ambitious internet TV alliance, which also includes Samsung, Sony and Vizio.

LG Electronics Inc said on Friday it would unveil its first Google TV next week, joining Sony Corp and Samsung Electronics Co in partnering with the search giant to get a foothold in the emerging Internet TV market.

Benchmark Co analysts downgraded Google Inc to hold from buy, citing a decline in advertising revenue from Europe and an uncertain outlook for the first half of this year.

Benchmark Co analysts downgraded Google Inc to hold from buy, citing a decline in advertising revenue from Europe and an uncertain outlook for the first half of this year.

Elan Microelectronics Corp, a Taiwanese touch design company, said on Thursday that Apple Inc will pay $5 million as part of a settlement in a patent infringement case.

Google's patent portfolio just got stronger. The software corporation managed to acquire over 200 patents from IBM Corp.

Apple Inc has appointed Adobe Systems Inc's Todd Teresi to head its iAd mobile-advertising business, Bloomberg said, citing three people with knowledge of the matter.

SOPA opponents can use a new Google Chrome extension to ensure they are not unwittingly contributing to the bottom lines of companies that support the Stop Online Privacy Act.

It's been a productive couple weeks for Rick Santorum, who virtually tied with Mitt Romney for first place in the Iowa caucuses and has finally managed to push Dan Savage's Spreading Santorum Web site out of the top spot in Google searches for his name.

NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) - Americans who take to the Internet to learn more about Rick Santorum following his strong finish in the Iowa caucuses are about to discover his Google problem.

The buzz is growing about the world's largest consumer technology trade show - the Consumer Electronics Show 2012 (CES 2012), which will kick off on Jan. 10 in Las Vegas, and many people are wondering what the top technology companies will be showcasing this year.

Yahoo is poised to name PayPal President Scott Thompson as chief executive after firing former CEO Carol Bartz in September, Web site AllThingsD reported, citing sources close to the situation.

Asus has made the announcement that it will commence the roll out of the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update for the Eee Pad Transformer Prime tablet from next week. It has also announced the imminent release of a bootloader unlocking tool.

How many people are using Facebook in San Francisco at 2:30 p.m. on a Friday? Are you familiar with this question? If yes, then you must have attended the job interview at Google for the position of Vendor Relations Manager.

In 2012, a big clash between Google, world' largest Internet search engine, and Facebook, world's No.1 social network service, is being predicted.

Earlier this week, Experian Hitwise released its annual list of the most-visited Web sites of 2011; unsurprisingly Facebook topped the list, surpassing Google. Just a few days after that Nielsen Research came out with its own analysis and released its own list of the 10 most-visited Web sites, putting Google on top.

NetColalition, a trade association that includes Google, Facebook, Amazon, Twitter and PayPal, is planning a coordinated blackout to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). The blackout would be the most extreme move against the controversial bill yet, but NetColalition says the protest is just the tip of the iceberg.

Robert W. Baird believes that Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) finished 2011 on a strong note, with healthy Search and e-commerce trends likely driving upside to consensus estimates. The brokerage reiterated its outperform rating on shares of Google, while increasing its price target to $760 from $700.

On Christmas Day of this year, activations of new Apple's iOS and Google's Android devices surged 353 percent over the baseline (the average from the first 20 days of December) of 1.5 million to 6.8 million, and more than 142 percent increase over last Christmas, according to mobile application analytics firm Flurry.

Alibaba Group has hired a Washington lobbying firm in a sign that the Chinese e-commerce company would be willing to make a bid for all of Yahoo Inc. in the event that talks to unwind their Asian partnership fail.

As Apple gears up to release its most anticipated tablet yet, Android competitors are getting ready to rival the iPad 3, with Google plotting the latest aspiring iPad-killer.

Investors didn’t get rich owning generalized technology stocks but they fared well with some of the traditional winners with good management and proven technology.

Google+, Google’s challenge to Facebook, is adding 625,000 daily users and already may have as many as 62 million signed up, unofficial statistician Paul Allen claimed.

The year 2011 was one in which smartphones and tablets achieved a status of necessity, instead of being style statement which they used to be in the past, thanks to Apple and Google.

The markets rewarded Apple and Google Tuesday after reports that activations of new iOS and Android devices surged over the weekend that included Christmas.

Internet search engine giant Google might launch its very own tablet with Android 4.1 within the next six months, Google's Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt said recently in an interview with an Italian media.

The mystery of the Namibian space ball has been solved before the end of 2011, but the answer, sadly, does not lie in UFOs and alien life. Instead, the extraterrestrial object is almost certainly a hydrazine bladder tank... a mystery solved not by NASA, but by a commenter on Gawker. Details and photos here.

As Congress debates the Stop Online Piracy Act and Go Daddy suffers for its early support, many Americans still don't know exactly what SOPA bill is or how it would affect their day-to-day lives. Here, read a complete and easy-to-grasp guide of the controversial bill and why it's so dangerous, from why it's supported to the threat of censorship it poses.

NORAD teamed up with Google Earth once again in 2011, tracking Father Christmas' progress around the world as volunteers fielded 100,000 calls. As NORAD reports a record holiday, find out how the Santa Tracker got started, and check out 2011's best Google Earth videos tracking Santa's progress, from the Great Wall and Taj Mahal to Hilo, Hawaii.