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Time Warner Inc on Thursday made official plans to separate its AOL division sometime around the end of this year, a widely expected move that sheds one of the media company's weakest divisions.

Google has unveiled a new-age communication and collaboration tool developed by the same team that brought us Google Maps.

The European Union's executive body will study plans by Google to make millions of books available online after Germany said the Internet company's project flouts EU copyright law.

Microsoft announced on Thursday its Bing search engine, a decision engine that will replace live.com worldwide as of June 3. If successful, it is excepted to change the face of search engineer market, said Forrester analyst Shar VanBoskirck.

Microsoft Corp. is rolling out a redesigned site of its Live search engine in the coming days called Bing which the company hopes it will lure Web surfers away from its competitors.

Microsoft Corp is revamping its search engine to counter the dominance of Google Inc in the Web search and related advertising business.

News Corp hopes to sell Google Inc access to a greater swathe of its media properties, its executives said, as an advertising deal between the two companies comes up for renewal.

Yahoo Inc CEO Carol Bartz said any deal to spin off or combine its Internet search assets will require a partner with boatloads of money, and her company is talking a little bit with Microsoft Corp about a potential partnership.

Yahoo Inc CEO Carol Bartz said the company continues to talk with Microsoft Corp about an Internet search deal, but stressed that search remains an important ingredient in Yahoo's array of online products.

Microsoft is aiming to fire up competition in the search engine market after revamping its search engine and renaming it Bing, the software company is now planning an extravagant ad campaign in a bid to woo the public from its competition, Google.

Google has upgraded its Chrome browser to version 2.0 that is 30% faster when loading JavaScript-heavy web pages, but has only included a few new updates.

Yahoo Inc is looking to buy companies that will allow it to become a bigger player in social networking and revamp its family of products, Chief Technology Officer Ari Balogh said on Wednesday.

Opera Software ASA chief executive Jon von Tetzchner hopes the Norwegian firm, known for its mobile browser, will stay independent despite major industry players increasing focus on the sector.

Google Inc. considered buying a newspaper but decided against it, CEO Eric Schmidt told the Financial Times.

Internet search engine operator Google has decided against acquiring a newspaper, the Financial Times reported, citing the company's chief executive and chairman, Eric Schmidt.

Google announced its first partnership with eight utility companies in the United States, India and Canada, to introduce its Power Meter to monitor household electricity usage.

Microsoft is set to unveils its long-awaited next-generation search technology, code-named Kumo, next week at the D: All Things Digital technology conference in California, according to reports.

Microsoft Corp is likely to show a new version of its Internet search engine publicly for the first time next week, the Wall Street Journal said, citing people familiar with the matter.

Microsoft Corp is likely to show a new version of its Internet search engine publicly for the first time next week, the Wall Street Journal said, citing people familiar with the matter.

Gmail users can now automatically translate their messages into 41 languages, Google announced Tuesday.

Twitter is working on various ways to make money from its fast-growing microblogging service, but advertising is an option that is not currently being considered.

Executives of China's top Internet search company Baidu Inc talked this weekend with striking workers who are angry about salary cuts and new sales commission policies that they say could force them out of their jobs, The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday.

Wolfram Alpha, the new computational knowledge engine went live to the public on Friday night, 3 days ahead of its official May 18 launch.

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Google apologized yesterday for what it called a traffic jam that resulted in slow service on its web properties, or even causing the site to go down.

Google Inc is lifting restrictions on the use of trademarked terms in its U.S. online advertising system, a move that could increase friction between the Internet giant and brand owners.

Google was experiencing some technical issuesm the Mountain View-based company confirmed this morning after the site was taking long to load and users were experiencing problems in accessing various Google Web applications.

Google is running into legal problems with privacy advocates in both Greece and Japan over its Google Maps feature, Street View.

Internet search engine Google said it would reshoot all Japanese pictures for its online photo map service, Street View, using lower camera angles after complaints about invasion of privacy.