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Apple Inc is talking with Microsoft Corp about making it the default search engine provider for the iPhone, replacing Google Inc, BusinessWeek reported on Wednesday.

Apple Inc is talking to Microsoft Corp about stepping in as the default search engine on the iPhone, replacing Google Inc , according to report on Bloomberg's web site.

In the autumn of 1998, computer science engineer Li Yanhong developed Rankdex, an experimental search engine that ranked websites according to their relevance to each other.

China's top search engine, Baidu Inc (BIDU.O), filed a lawsuit against its U.S.-based domain name service provider on Wednesday after a cyber attack interrupted its web services last week.

The United States has had multiple meetings with Chinese authorities over Internet freedom and will have more in the coming days, a top State Department official said on Tuesday amid continuing tensions between Google and Beijing.

Microsoft announced that it will issue a n emergency path for its Internet Explorer browser that will close up a security hole hackers used to exploit a number of US technology companies.

The European Commission has set a provisional deadline of Feb. 19 to decide whether to clear a bid by Microsoft to acquire control of Yahoo Inc's search engine business.

In the latest sign of growing tensions between Beijing and business partners, Google is postponing the release of two mobile phone models, just days after threatening to pull out its search business.

Google Inc will not be treated as an exception to China's demand foreign companies obey its laws, the Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday, a week after the world's largest search engine warned it could pull out of China.

Google has postponed the launch of two mobile phones in China which use its Android platform, in the first sign its business in the country is starting to be affected by a dispute over hacking and censorship.

Google has postponed the launch of two mobile phones in China which use its Android platform, in the first sign its business in the country is starting to be affected by a dispute over hacking and censorship.

Google is investigating whether one or more employees may have helped facilitate a cyber-attack from China that the U.S. search giant said it was a victim of in mid-December, two sources told Reuters on Monday.

Foreign firms, including Google, must respect Chinese laws and customs, China's foreign ministry spokesman said on Tuesday, a week after the world's largest search engine said it might pull out of China due to hacking and censorship.

Apple Inc. confirmed on Monday that it will hold a product launch event on January 27 at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco to introduce its latest creation.

The Gmail accounts of foreign reporters in at least two news bureaus in Beijing have been hijacked, similar to the ones against human rights activists that the search giant cited as a reason, a journalists' group in China said Monday.

Europe's main security and human rights watchdog said on Monday that Turkey was blocking some 3,700 Internet sites for arbitrary and political reasons and urged reforms to show its commitment to freedom of expression.

Europe's main security and human rights watchdog said Monday Turkey was blocking some 3,700 Internet sites for arbitrary and political reasons and urged legal reforms to show its commitment to freedom of expression.

Google Inc enters a second week of high stakes brinkmanship with China's government, amid speculation the firm has decided to pull out of the world's biggest Internet market over cyber-spying concerns.

Yahoo got pulled into a growing row between China and Google on Saturday, as its Chinese partner slammed Yahoo's statements supporting Google while a source revealed the search giant had stayed silent about cyber-attacks.

China's largest e-commerce firm Alibaba Group, in which Yahoo Inc owns a 40 percent stake, has called the search giant's comments on Google reckless.

China's largest e-commerce group Alibaba Group, in which Yahoo Inc owns a 40 percent stake, has called the search giant's comments on Google reckless.

Yahoo Inc knew it had been a target to sophisticated Chinese cyber attacks on U.S. corporations before Google alerted the company to them, a source familiar with the matter said, but chose to remain silent after its bigger rival went public.

Yahoo Inc was among the companies targeted by recent Chinese cyber attacks and had conversations with Google Inc about the attacks prior to Google's announcement this week, according to a person familiar with the matter.

China sought on Friday to play down a threat by Google Inc to quit the country on hacking and censorship concerns, but the United States said it will formally express concern over the cyber attacks the Internet search giant said originated in China.

Google Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc. said on late Thursday they support minimal internet regulation and reasonable network management over the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) proposed net neutrality rules.

Google Inc and Verizon Communications Inc said they support minimal Internet regulation and reasonable network management as regulators weigh open Internet rules.

Juniper Networks Inc said on Friday it was one of the victims of a cyber attack in China first brought to light by Google Inc, which has threatened to quit the country.

The United States will soon give China a formal diplomatic note expressing concern about cyber attacks that prompted Google Inc to threaten to pull out of China, the U.S. State Department said on Friday.

The U.S. State Department said on Friday it will soon give China a formal diplomatic message expressing its concern about cyber attacks that prompted Google Inc to threaten to pull out of China.