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The Dow industrials and the S&P 500 climbed on Thursday to 2009 closing highs, buoyed by energy stocks as oil prices jumped, but financials retreated as investors panned results from Goldman Sachs and Citigroup.

Google Inc posted its strongest sequential revenue growth in more than a year, outpacing Wall Street expectations as the Internet search advertising business showed signs of recovery from the global recession.

Google plans to launch an online store for electronic books in the first half of next year, offering about half a million books initially in partnership with publishers with whom it already cooperates.

Venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins on Tuesday makes its latest bet on wireless device technology, with high hopes in music recognition and iPhone application developer Shazam, joining a wave of investment in the hot mobile content and technology market.

Google announced on Tuesday that it has begun offering its Google Voice testers the opportunity to invite friends to join the telephony service.

Investors are betting on Google Inc's third-quarter results this week to show a recovery in revenue growth, pushing shares of the leading Web search engine to a 12-month high on Monday.

More People, More Challenges; Recovery Hurdles; Crediting Obama's Policies

Investors are betting on Google Inc's third-quarter results this week to show a recovery in revenue growth, pushing shares of the leading Web search engine to a 12-month high on Monday.

In response to a Federal Communications Commission letter prompted by an AT&T complaint, Google says limits on Google Voice calls are due to exorbitant rates.

Arthur Levinson, former chairman of Genentech, has resigned from Google's board of directors, effective immediately, Google said Monday.

Google Inc said on Monday that Arthur Levinson has resigned from its board in a move that appears to defuse regulatory scrutiny into the ties between the boards of Google and Apple Inc.

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British pest control to parcel delivery company Rentokil Initial has chosen Google to manage its electronic communications, making it the largest company to deploy Google's Apps worldwide to date.

U.S. regulators on Friday asked Google Inc to explain how the Internet giant's Voice service blocks expensive calls to some rural areas, after lawmakers demanded an investigation.

Google said on Monday that Arthur Levinson had resigned from its board following increased regulatory scrutiny over his membership as a director of both the top Internet search company and Apple Inc.

The world's book trade meets in Frankfurt next week on the brink of a long-feared transformation of the industry for which few are well prepared.

The world's book trade meets in Frankfurt next week on the brink of a long-feared transformation of the industry for which few are well prepared.

YouTube now gets over a billion hits a day, according to a new video blog post by the founder of the website.

U.S. lawmakers urged regulators to investigate Google Inc's ability to block expensive calls to rural areas to slash expenses, marking the latest spat between the Internet giant and AT&T Inc.

One of two former Bear Stearns managers indicted for fraud over the collapse of hedge funds in 2007 feared a blow up risk to investors as early as November 2006, according to an email released on Thursday.

A group of Republicans and Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives called on the Federal Communications Commission to investigate Google Inc's ability to block calls to rural telephone exchanges.

Microblogging service Twitter is in advanced talks with Google Inc and Microsoft Corp about licensing its data feed to the companies' search engines, a Web blog associated with the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.

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Why is google a barcode today? Today is the 57th anniversary of the bar code patent. In honor of the bar code, Google is featuring those familiar black and white bars on its homepage as its doodle instead of its usual logo.

BY Gabriel MadwayDell Inc plans to launch a smartphone with Google's Android mobile software on carrier AT&T's network as soon as early 2010, the Wall Street Journal reported, marking the PC maker's first foray into a cut-throat U.S. cellphone arena.

Dell plans to launch a smartphone with Google's Android mobile software on carrier AT&T's network as soon as early 2010, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.

The bar codes of Madonna, Britney Spears, Michael Jackson and any celebrity can be created with online bar code generators with the input of a name.

Verizon has teamed with Google on Tuesday to co-develop several Android-based devices that will be pre-loaded with innovative applications from both parties as well as third-party developers, in an effort to fight off the iPhone and its exclusive agreement with AT&T.

Changes to a settlement that would allow Google Inc to put million of books online should be presented in court by Nov. 9, the judge presiding over the case said on Wednesday.