Senate Panel Grills Apple, Google Execs On Smartphone Tracking
Apple and Google say they only record the location of Wi-Fi hot spots and cell towers to improve service, not to stalk customers.
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Apple and Google say they only record the location of Wi-Fi hot spots and cell towers to improve service, not to stalk customers.
Michael Vick and the Humane Society said on Monday that an application built to run on Google Inc.'s Android software glorifies dogfighting.
Location data is some of the most valuable information a mobile phone can provide, since it can tell advertisers not only where someone's been, but also where they might be going _ and what they might be inclined to buy when they get there.
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Google CEO Eric Schmidt got a huge raise after he gave up the top job to take on a new role at the company.
Google is helping the economy and hurting its stock. The company is hiring so many employees for projects outside its thriving search advertising business that its expenses are growing much faster than its revenue.
Google is investing $168 million in an alternative power project that aims to produce enough solar energy to light 140,000 homes.
Microsoft is lashing out at Google, extending the hostilities between two of the most prominent corporations in technology.
Government officials are letting Google proceed with its $700 million purchase of airline fare tracker ITA Software. The deal will establish the Internet search giant as a key player in the online travel market.
Google is reportedly preparing to revamp its video website YouTube, with new professionally-produced content set to hit the internet later this year.
Google co-founder Larry Page will take another shot at being the company's CEO starting next week.
Google co-founder Larry Page is known for his vision, passion and intelligence. Yet there is a fair amount of concern that Page's other known traits might lead the company astray.
Google has agreed to adopt a comprehensive privacy program to settle federal charges that it deceived users and violated its own privacy policy when it launched a social networking service called Buzz last year.
Amazon.com Inc. wants to be more than a destination for shopping online: It also dreams of being a place where you can store your music, photos and videos and access them any time, from any computer.
Lady Gaga was in the Bay Area for her show at Oracle Arena in Oakland, but she also made time to stop by Mountain View at the Google Campus...
A federal judge in New York City has rejected a deal between Google Inc. and lawyers for authors and publishers to let the gigantic search engine make money presiding over the world's largest digital library.
China already has some of the world's strictest Internet controls and blocks many popular social media sites, including YouTube, Facebook and Twitter.
Google, Twitter and other technology companies are finding ways to help following last week's earthquake in Japan.
YouTube is partnering with universities to launch a new media program series for aspiring digital filmmakers.
A behind-the-scenes battle over dueling video technologies has attracted the attention of the U.S. Department of Justice.
Google says it is investigating problems with its e-mail service following complaints from some Gmail users that they found all of their old messages erased.
Google has tweaked the formulas steering its Internet search engine to take the rubbish out of its results.
KCBS Technology Analyst Larry Magid said the competition has been slow to jump on the tablet computer bandwagon started by Apple because it takes a long time to introduce a quality product, and they want to do it right.
President Barack Obama came to the Bay Area on Thursday evening to push his plan to spend billions more on education, meeting with Apple's ailing leader Steve Jobs and the chiefs of Facebook and Google.
Google Inc. is undercutting rival Apple Inc. with an online payment system that lets publishers keep more of the fees charged for reading their digital editions.
