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A consortium including Google and KDDI Corp has signed a deal on Thursday to build and operate an international undersea cable system, estimated to cost $400 million.

An eBay Inc executive said on Thursday the auction company bought a stake in Craigslist partly to block rival web company Google Inc from acquiring the classified ads business.

Facebook, the world's No.1 Internet social network, took a step toward opening up parts of its site to outsiders on Wednesday by introducing a broad revision of its users' privacy settings.

Google's share of the U.S. search market grew 1.4 percent in November, with competitors like Yahoo and Microsoft Bing, left trailing behind.

Google on Tuesday announced a Chrome browser beta version for Apple Mac and Linux. Chrome for Mac has been delayed for some time now, as it was first supposed to be released in the first half of 2009 but faced several delays.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Tuesday he would not let his country's literary heritage be taken away by a friendly large American company, in a thinly veiled challenge to Google

Yahoo Inc CEO Carol Bartz put a 'for sale' sign on HotJobs on Tuesday, saying Yahoo was open to selling the non-core unit for the right price even though an improving economy could help its prospects.

Google on Tuesday announced a Chrome browser beta version for Apple Mac and Linux. Chrome for Mac has been delayed for some time now, as it was first supposed to be released in the first half of 2009 but faced several delays.

Britain is to make online safety lessons for children over 5 compulsory under a new scheme which aims to echo road safety campaigns of the past.

Google has beefed up its search capabilities by releasing real-time search and announcing a new product in Google Labs, called Google Goggles, which is a visual search feature. Google made the announcements during Google's 3rd annual review of Internet search technology; an event the company calls Searchology.

Google Inc has revamped its search engine to allow results to be refreshed with up-to-the-second data increasingly churned out by the new crop of real-time Web products.

Google Inc has revamped its search engine to allow results to be refreshed with up-to-the-second data increasingly churned out by the new crop of real-time Web products.

Google announced a very cool new product on Monday at its Searchology event called Google Goggles - a new feature that allows you to search with images. By using a camera on your Android cell phone, you can take a picture of your location or object, and then enter it in and Google Goggles will pull up information associated with the image.

Google has beefed up its search capabilities by releasing real-time search and announcing a new product in Google Labs called Google Googles which is a visual search feature. Google made the announcements during Google's 3rd annual review of Internet search technology; an event the company calls Searchology.

The European Union and Microsoft are likely to end a decade-long dispute next week when EU antitrust regulators will accept the U.S. software company's amended offer on allowing consumer choice on Internet browsers, sources said.

With companies able to collect and store vast amounts of data about consumers for very little money, the Federal Trade Commission held a conference on Monday to discuss guidelines on how firms use that data to advertise.

The doors of restaurants and barbershops are increasingly plastered with stickers touting various online rating services, from Yelp and Citysearch to the distinctive red crest of Zagat.

EU antitrust regulators are set to accept next week an amended offer by Microsoft that would allow PC users in Europe to choose other web browsers, two people familiar with the situation said on Monday.

Operators pushed market share of cellphones running Google's software a little higher in September quarter in Western Europe, but consumers showed little interest toward them, research firm IDC said on Saturday.

Just a day after Bing rolled out an array of changes and updates including its new Bing Maps, Microsoft had to apologize after its search engine went offline on Thursday evening. Bing users were unable to access the site between 6:30pm to 7:00pm PST. At first, the site was simply unresponsive or returned partial search results. The page then turned into an error page explaining that the site was unavailable.

After two years of work, and 12 years after their last attempt, 190 nations gather in Copenhagen from Monday to try to avert dramatic climate change -- what one minister called the most difficult talks ever embarked upon by humanity.

Google Inc prides itself on setting trends and its $750 million buy of mobile advertising group AdMob may be no exception.

AOL Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Armstrong has studied the turnaround of Apple Inc to chart his own course for the revival of the once powerful Internet company, according to a report from BusinessWeek.

Google announced Thursday a new service called Google Public DNS (Domain Name System), that allows users to utilize the Google DNS servers to access the Internet.

Google Inc is banking on significant growth in online video ads as marketers become more sophisticated at targeting consumers interactively, a senior executive at the Web search giant said on Thursday.

Yahoo Inc expects exponential growth in mobile advertising even as the overall market is only starting to emerge from its deep downturn, a top executive of the Internet media company said on Thursday.

Google announced Thursday a new service called Google Public DNS (Domain Name System), that allows users to utilize the Google DNS servers to access the Internet. The service, which is still in an experimental phase, attempts to improve on existing DNS technology by making it faster.

Google Inc is not to blame for the news industry's problems but is committed to playing a role in helping struggling publishers survive the transition to the online age, CEO Eric Schmidt said.

Google Inc is not to blame for the news industry's problems but is committed to playing a role in helping struggling publishers survive the transition to the online age, CEO Eric Schmidt said.