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Cell phone maker INQ Mobile unveiled on Thursday its first two smartphones running Google's Android software, aiming to benefit from booming growth in social networking.

Cell phone maker INQ Mobile unveiled on Thursday its first two smartphones running Google's Android software, aiming to benefit from booming growth in social networking.

Nokia CEO Stephen Elop wasn't wrong in his memo to employees; the Fin-based cell phone manufacturer is moving in the wrong direction.

Hewlett-Packard Co unveiled its entrant in the tablet race, betting its TouchPad summer release will keep it in the running in a booming market dominated by Apple Inc's iPad and devices running Google Inc software.

The ongoing anti-government Egypt protests now has a face in Wael Ghonim, the Egyptian-born Google marketing executive who first hit the headlines after he disappeared into police custody.

Pennsylvania-based Astrobotic Technology Inc. has announced a contract with SpaceX to launch Astrobotic's robotic payload to the Moon on a Falcon 9 rocket as early as December 2013.

Social networking site Facebook on Tuesday opened shop in Hong Kong to expand its presence in Asia notwithstanding its ban in mainland China.

Seven-year-old Facebook is already fast outgrowing its Silicon Valley abode.

French telecoms carrier Orange has ditched Google's Internet advertising-serving company DoubleClick in favor of independent OpenX, in a sign of the smaller company's growing challenge to the major players.

Internet search giant Google Inc. is celebrating 183rd birthday of French science-fiction writer Jules Gabriel Verne by capturing '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea' in its new interactive doodle.

Share of Google’s Android in the US smartphone platform market increased to 28.7 percent in the last quarter of 2010, overtaking the share held by Apple, said a report by comScore on Monday.

Google Inc executive Wael Ghonim, who was released in Cairo on Monday, said he was kept blindfolded for two weeks while being detained by Egyptian state security.

Google Inc executive Wael Ghonim, who went missing in Cairo, has been released and is headed home, a family member told Reuters on Monday.

Google Inc executive Wael Ghonim, who went missing in Cairo, has been released and is on his way home, a family member told Reuters on Monday.

Google and European Union regulators are in tentative talks to resolve an antitrust probe against the Internet's dominant search engine, a source familiar with the case said on Monday.

A Google Inc executive who had gone missing in Egypt was released on Monday and was on his way to Tahrir Square, the center of two weeks of anti-government demonstrations, Al Arabiya television reported.

Google and European Union regulators are in tentative talks to resolve an antitrust probe against the Internet's dominant search engine, a source familiar with the case said on Monday.

Google’s marketing executive in Egypt, Wael Ghonim, has been released by authorities according to several news reports.

Google Inc is reaching out to some of its top advertising customers to promote its mobile marketing services, as the Internet giant moves to expand its advertising business from computer screens to smartphones.

Google Inc wants to avoid a lengthy legal battle with European Union regulators investigating its market dominance, the Sunday Telegraph quoted its chief executive as saying.

43 percent of recent acquirers of smartphones in the United States opted for a device using Google's Android operating system, giving it a clear lead over the iPhone and Blackberry.

Researchers at Sophos, a computer security firm, have found that apps from the Android Market automatically download to a mobile device once the user chooses the app on the Web site, leaving users open to some types of attack.

Nokia's widely speculated transition to a new operating system would benefit rival Research In Motion as it provides an opportunity to expand in international markets.

Market analysts speculate that Nokia would eventually join the Google's Android or Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 ecosystem.

Despite having recorded a two-fold jump in the second quarter earnings from a year ago, News Corp. seems to be in no mood to carry on the load of MySpace and is set to sell the social networking site.

Internet company AOL, Inc. (AOL) reported better-than-expected fourth quarter results on the top-line, with in-line earnings. Management believes that 2011 is the come back year for AOL. Jefferies & Co. reduced its price target on shares of AOL to $26 from $27, while maintaining its hold rating.

Google Inc has fixed some shortcomings in its tablet computer strategy, as the Internet search giant steps up efforts to break into a nascent market dominated by Apple.

The search company unveils a new tablet focused operating system and a browser-based version of the Android market place.

Google has accused Bing - the search engine from Microsoft - of cheating.