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Motorola Inc unveiled on Thursday the first of many cellphones to be developed in partnership with Google, but analysts questioned if it could revive the once-dominant handset maker's fortunes.

Motorola Inc on Thursday said it would launch a new cell phone that uses Google software and seeks to tap into the popularity of online social networks like Facebook.

Motorola Inc unveiled on Thursday a new cellphone that uses Google software and features easier access to social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, but some analysts said it might not be enough to turn around the company's money-losing handset business.

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Motorola said Thursday it would launch a new cell phone that will run on Google's operating system.

Google Inc, criticized for scanning books without copyright permission, has said it would open its digital library to rivals and bookstores, the search engine giant said on Thursday.

Google Inc's plan to digitize millions of books as part of a class action settlement wrongly creates a virtually compulsory license for books, the U.S. register of copyrights said on Thursday.

Google's deal to digitize millions of books opens the way for others to enter the online book business, the company's chief legal officer said in testimony prepared for a congressional hearing on Thursday.

Google Inc is infusing its paid search ads with video, product images and other features as the Internet company strives to refine its money-making capabilities in a tough advertising environment.

Google Inc is disappointed with the lack of breakthrough investment ideas in the green technology sector but the company is working to develop its own new mirror technology that could reduce the cost of building solar thermal plants by a quarter or more.

Google, the Internet search group, defended its scanning and publishing of millions of books online on Monday by saying the project was making finding information on the Web more democratic.

Google has offered concessions to European publishers who are concerned about the Internet giant's plans to further digitize books by saying that it will not include European books that are still commercially available.

Kai-fu Lee, Google Inc's former China chief who quit the search giant this week, said on Sunday he will launch his own business next week to fund Chinese technology start-ups.

Google chose to baffle the world today. Google's latest doodle - the adapted version of its logo that appears on its homepage - today features an image of a UFO with a link to the search term unexplained phenomenon.

Google Inc made its fortune on Internet search ads, but Wall Street is increasingly eager for signs that the company's other money-making bets will pay off.

Italy's antitrust agency said on Friday it was broadening its investigation into allegations that Google's Italian news website coerced Italian newspapers into posting their stories to include U.S. parent Google Inc. The competition authority launched the probe this week after the Italian Federation of Newspaper Editors alleged that any publication refusing to appear on the Google News Italia (h...

Google, fighting to gain ground on China's Baidu's dominant search lead in the country, confirmed the departure of its China president on Friday and said its regional sales head would take over Lee Kai-Fu's business and operational responsibilities.

Google Inc should develop a privacy policy for its plan to digitize millions of books that limits use of consumer data, the Federal Trade Commission said in a letter to the company.

Microblogging service Twitter has tapped a former Google Inc executive to be its chief operating officer, the latest move by the fledgling but fast-growing company to build out its management team as it seeks to start making money.

Google Inc's efforts to persuade businesses to buy its email services suffered a setback this week after a highly publicized outage shut down accounts of millions of corporate customers for almost two hours.

Google Inc.'s YouTube is reportedly in talks with major movie studios about allowing users to stream movies on a rental basis, making it the sites first move towards charging for content instead of making it available for free with advertising, according to a media report.

Google Inc.'s YouTube is reportedly in talks with major movie studios about allowing users to stream movies on a rental basis, making it the sites first move towards charging for content instead of making it available for free with advertising, according to a media report.

Amazon.com Inc joined the opposition to Google Inc's plan to digitize millions of books, saying that the proposed deal would fundamentally change copyright law and violate antitrust law.

Google Inc.'s massive crash of its popular Gmail service was the result of a routine service miscalculation, the company explained late Tuesday, leaving the majority of its 150 million users without access to their email accounts.

Researchers in Israel say they have developed a computer program that can decipher previously unreadable ancient texts and possibly lead the way to a Google-like search engine for historical documents.

Vevo, an online music video start-up backed by two major music labels and supported by YouTube's technology platform, is in talks with CBS Corp and NBC to license and develop shows for the Web, according to two people familiar with the talks.

A majority of Google mail users were unable to access the service Tuesday afternoon, in a rare widespread outage of the popular Gmail service.

A majority of Google mail users were unable to access the service on Tuesday afternoon, in a rare widespread outage of the popular Gmail service.

Ebay, the US online auction group, agreed to unload 65 per cent of its Skype internet calling service to a group of private investors for $2bn in cash and debt.