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Google Inc. acquired the photo- editing site Picnik Inc., according to a company blog, adding to its Picasa picture-storing service.

Google Inc acquired online photo-editing site Picnik, as the Web search leader continues with a deal binge includes three acquisitions in about three weeks.

Google claims Microsoft is taking over lawsuits and complaints brought by third parties to stir up antitrust complaints against them.

Microsoft Corp made its most vehement and public attack on Google Inc on Friday, calling its Internet rival's actions potentially anti-competitive, and urging victims to file complaints to regulators.

Microsoft Corp made its most vehement and public attack on Google Inc on Friday, calling its internet rival's actions potentially anti-competitive, and urging victims to file complaints to regulators.

Google, the US search giant, unveiled a new way to filter search results based on a user's location.

Popular social networking site Facebook has received a wide ranging patent for displaying news feeds from social networks.

European Union privacy regulators are urging Google to make changes in the way it executes goes about its controversial Street View program, adding to its legal worries in Europe.

EU data protection authorities have urged U.S. Internet search giant Google to shorten the period it stores images from its controversial Street View web service because of privacy concerns.

More than three-quarters of scientists in China use the search engine Google as a primary research tool and say their work would be significantly hampered if they were to lose it, a survey showed on Wednesday.

European Union antitrust regulators are looking into complaints filed by three online companies against Google that may lead to a formal investigation into the search-engine giant's business practices.

A Milan court has convicted three Google Inc executives for the 2006 transmission of a video showing the bullying of a youth with Down's syndrome, the judge in the case told Reuters on Wednesday.

Google said on Wednesday that a ruling against its top Italian executives attacks the principles of freedom of the Internet and poses a serious threat to the web.

Google Inc has scrapped the China leg of a regional event to show software developers its first smartphone, the Nexus One, in Beijing, its second such move following its threatened pull-out from the country.

European Union antitrust regulators said on Wednesday they were looking into complaints filed by three online companies against Google.

Google Inc told communications regulators on Tuesday the fee assessed on customers who end their service contracts for its Nexus One mobile phone has been slashed to $150 from $350.

Critical infrastructure and other technology dependent on global positioning satellites are increasingly threatened by attack from widely available equipment, technology experts are warning.

The European Commission is considering complaints from three online companies regarding Google Inc's practices including its search rankings, the company said on Tuesday.

Over 6500 authors have asked to be excluded from the digital books agreement that Google reached with the publishing industry bestselling authors Jeffrey Archer and Louis de Bernières and critical favorites Thomas Pynchon, Zadie Smith.

Verdicts were expected on Wednesday on Google executives charged over a bullying video posted on the company's Italian website, in a case that could set a precedent for Internet content responsibility.

The European Commission is looking into complaints from three online companies that Google Inc's search functions penalized their businesses, The Daily Telegraph reported in its Wednesday edition.

Intel Corp said it faced a sophisticated hacker attack in January about the same time as the recently publicized Chinese hacker attacks on Google Inc, but noted no clear link between the two events.

Xerox Corp has sued Google Inc and Yahoo Inc, accusing them of infringing the document management company's patents related to Internet search.

Google's assertion that its computers were attacked by hackers based in China was groundless, Beijing said on Tuesday, hardening its rhetoric in a spat with Washington over Internet freedom.

China moved to tighten its grip on the flow of Internet information this Tuesday, saying individuals who want to operate Websites must first receive approval from regulators.

Remaining players in the satnav sector are rethinking strategies and some are set to sell out under pressure to survive

Google is dropping development of its Gears web programing standard in favor of HTML 5, a new web protocol bringing rich features to without the need of special plugins.

Bloom Energy, a San Francisco based energy company, unveiled a ground breaking innovation on 60 Minutes last night, a little power plant-in-a-box that will power houses.

U.S. government analysts believe a Chinese man with government links wrote the key part of a spyware programme used in hacker attacks on Google last year, the Financial Times reported on Monday.