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The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has launched an inquiry into whether the ties between the boards of Apple Inc and Google Inc violate antitrust laws, the New York Times reported on Monday.

Skeptical library groups asked on Monday for rigorous oversight of Google's agreement with authors and publishers that would allow it to put millions of books online.

U.S. trade regulators are examining links between Apple Inc. and Google Inc. as the two tech giants share some board members.

Four months into her fix-it job at Yahoo Inc, Chief Executive Carol Bartz has worked through an impressive checklist.

The Federal Trade Commission has launched an inquiry into whether the ties between the boards of Apple Inc and Google Inc violate antitrust laws, the New York Times reported on Monday.

A new web software, called Wolfram Alpha, has already been hyped as the next Google killer, even before its official launch later this month.

Google has equipped its Gmail email with new Search box to help end-users browse the web from without leaving their account and also added additional emoticons.

Google was sued over using 'Android' for trademark infringement along with 47 other international corporations.

Google Inc., the largest Internet search engine provider in the world, obtained a patent today for a water-based data center to be powered with the ocean's waves.

Facebook becomes the latest social-networking site to monitor the spread of swine flu, tracking the occurrence of flu-related words and phrases in the United States and in Europe.

Time Warner Inc's AOL Internet unit said on Thursday it has appointed former Google Inc executive Jeff Levick as president of global advertising and strategy, overseeing its Platform-A advertising sales business.

The president of Google Inc's global display advertising business is leaving, marking the latest in a series of changes within the Internet company's sales team in the past two months.

Using a new tracking tool, search engine giant Google said on Wednesday it saw a spike in searches for information about flu among people in Mexico last week even before news of the outbreak became widely known.

Google has reportedly been questioned by the U.S. Justice Department over whether their plan to digitize the world’s books into an online database represents a potential antitrust violation, according to the New York Times.

The U.S. Justice Department is making inquiries about a class action deal that Google Inc struck giving it the right to digitize and sell entire libraries, two experts on digitization told Reuters on Tuesday.

A group of authors who are considering whether to opt out of a settlement with Google Inc that gives it the right to distribute books online were granted a delay by a federal judge on Tuesday.

A group of authors who are considering whether to opt out of a settlement with Google Inc that gives it the right to distribute books online were granted a delay by a federal judge on Tuesday.

Google rolled out a new search tool on Tuesday that is designed to help Web users more easily find public data that is often hidden in hard-to-navigate government Web sites.

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Android is coming to a netbook sooner than expected.

Microsoft Corp's quarterly profit fell 32 percent, but its shares rose as investors welcomed continuing efforts to cut costs and news that the release of its Windows 7 operating system is on track.

The Google Street View program can continue its service in Britain if the company make sure that faces and addresses are blurred.

German music authors' society GEMA said on Thursday it was in talks with Google Inc's YouTube to resolve a dispute over royalty payments and the conditions under which music videos are made available online.

Yahoo Inc is shutting down GeoCities, a free service that hosts personal home pages for consumers, which it acquired for more than $4 billion 10 years ago during the heyday of the dotcom boom.

Britain's privacy watchdog has rejected calls to shut down Google's Street View service after complaints it was intrusive.

Rupert Murdoch's News Corp said on Wednesday that MySpace co-founder Chris DeWolfe will not be renewing his contract and will step down from the chief executive post.

Rupert Murdoch's News Corp may be courting a former top executive at social network Facebook to replace the chief executive and co-founder of its top rival MySpace, All Things Digital, a media and technology website, reported on Wednesday.

Mega-malls may be big, but when you need a fart noise generator, sometimes it's the smaller shops that do the trick -- at least that's true of the crop of virtual mobile retailers called app stores.

Microsoft is not interested in buying any hardware companies, Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said in Cairo on Wednesday.