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Google Inc posted a 23 percent gain in first-quarter revenue, beating analysts' average estimate but only slightly exceeding the most bullish expectations on Wall Street.

Google Inc said its revenue grew 23 percent in the first quarter, beating Wall Street expectations.

Google Inc said its revenue grew 23 percent in the first quarter, beating Wall Street expectations.

Google Inc's chief executive Eric Schmidt said the company's disruptive business created enemies for world's No.1 search engine, and he said that governments were keeping a close watch on the firm.

Apple's plunge into the advertising market announced this past week gave Google a big boost in arguing for regulators to approve its acquisition of mobile advertising leader AdMob, Google CEO Eric Schmidt said on Sunday.

Google Inc has not been surprised at the lack of public support in Silicon Valley as it faces off with China over hacking and censorship, the company's chief executive Eric Schmidt said on Sunday.

Google Inc was sued by photographers, illustrators and other visual artists who claim the Web search company is scanning and displaying their work online without paying them.

Google Inc has won another round in a patent fight with a company called Bid for Position, which had accused Google of infringing a patent with its AdWords advertising system.

Google Inc is expected to be sued by photographers, illustrators and other visual artists who claim the company is infringing their rights by scanning and displaying their work without compensation.

Lawyers at a U.S. regulator plan to recommend that the government try to block Google's proposed acquisition of mobile advertising firm AdMob on antitrust grounds, a source familiar with the matter said.

U.S. antitrust regulators should give close scrutiny to search engine giant Google Inc's planned acquisition of mobile advertising leader AdMob, a leading antitrust senator said on Tuesday.

As Wall Street eagerly awaits signs that Internet sensation Facebook will offer shares to the public, the venture capitalists that prowl California's Silicon Valley are keeping close tabs on another hot commodity: the employees leaving Facebook.

Microsoft Corp is set to announce its long-awaited Project Pink phones early next week, sources familiar with the matter said on Monday, as the world's largest software company attempts to gain traction in the growing market for young smartphone users.

The United States on Monday reiterated its call for China's currency to be market-based, as lawmakers warned they would act if there was no movement from China on revaluing the yuan.

(Corrects number of Quora co-founders from four to two)

The United States on Monday reiterated its call for China's currency to be market-based, as lawmakers warned they would act if there was no movement from China on revaluing the yuan.

Is Gold the best investment? You may have heard this and read about this phrase a million times already. Now it seems Gold investment reading is becoming too stereo cast that it has lost its sheen. But wait a minute. Though too much written word about Gold has turned out to be boring, the yellow metal itself has not shown the boredom in its rise. It has given good investment returns for those who put their trust in it.

The Foreign Correspondents Club of China said on Friday it had shut its website after a burst of hacker attacks, days after attacks on the Yahoo email accounts of some foreign journalists covering China were discovered.

Yahoo email accounts of some journalists and activists whose work relates to China were compromised in an attack discovered this week, according to rights groups and foreign correspondents, days after Google said it would move its Chinese-language search services out of China because of censorship concerns.

Google Inc has said it identified cyber attacks aimed at silencing opposition to a Vietnamese government-led bauxite mining project involving a major Chinese firm, and said they were similar to those at the heart of the company's friction with Beijing.

Google Inc blamed the great firewall of China for blocking its Internet search service in the country on Tuesday, but said it did not know if the stoppage was a Chinese technical glitch or a deliberate move in their face-off over Internet censorship.

Google Inc said many users in China were blocked from using its search service on Tuesday by a technical glitch that made their search queries appear to be associated with Radio Free Asia, which is blocked by Chinese authorities.

Google Inc said its mobile services have been partially blocked in China for two days, while searches on its Chinese-language site became erratic, about a week after the company shut its mainland Chinese portal and rerouted Web searches to a Hong Kong site.

Two days after shutting its Chinese portal over censorship, Google Inc said it plans to phase out deals to provide filtered search services to other online or mobile firms in China.

Users of Google Inc.'s search engines across Beijing reported erratic service on Wednesday, with the site sometimes failing to open, and some searches for even non-sensitive terms like hello returning error messages.

The United States on Tuesday said Google's action to shut its mainland Chinese-language portal was a business decision by the company that did not involve the U.S. government.

Europe's highest court ruled Google Inc did not infringe trademark law by selling keywords to trigger ads after Louis Vuitton and others said the practice undermined their brands.

Google has not violated the rights of luxury goods maker Louis Vuitton and two other firms by allowing online advertisers to buy search keywords identical to trademarks, Europe's top court said.

Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are out, but in China's vast and bewildering online universe you can freely read the New York Times or visit a favorite porn site.