Google's Travel Deal Faces Regulatory Turbulence
Google wants to become the hub of online travel, promising better bargains and more convenience by melding the Internet search leader's wizardry with the Web's top airline-fare tracker, ITA Software.
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Google wants to become the hub of online travel, promising better bargains and more convenience by melding the Internet search leader's wizardry with the Web's top airline-fare tracker, ITA Software.
Abandoning an earlier policy of diplomatic restraint, the CEO of Google said the company is "very, very proud" of Egyptian employee Wael Ghonim, who organized protests in Egypt and was thrown in jail there.
CNET Editor-at-Large Brian Cooley talks about security issues with Apple products and a new "two step authentication" feature from Google.
Google Inc. and Facebook Inc. have both held low-level talks with Twitter Inc. about purchasing the social networking service, according to a report published Thursday.
Google Inc. said Monday that its marketing manager has been released in Egypt after being detained during anti-government protests two weeks ago.
Google said one of its Middle East managers has gone missing in Cairo, where violent protests against the ruling regime have embroiled Egypt's capital for the past week.
Several Bay Area tech companies have had to shut down operations in Egypt because of that country's massive political uprising.
Google is accusing Microsoft Corp. of cheating to make its Bing search engine better. Microsoft said the way it is improving results isn't copying.
Google Inc. plans to hire more than 6,200 workers this year in the biggest expansion yet by the Internet's most profitable company.
Google Inc. has awarded $100 million worth of equity to Eric Schmidt, who is stepping aside as CEO but will stay with the company as executive chairman.
Google Inc. co-founder Larry Page is taking over as CEO in an unexpected shake-up that upstaged the Internet search leader's fourth-quarter earnings.
A federal judge has sided with Google Inc. in a lawsuit alleging the U.S. Department of Interior improperly favored Microsoft Corp. in a deal that could have had ripple effects on future software contracts with other federal government agencies.
Apple Inc.'s popular iPad is getting its strongest competition thus far as consumer-electronics manufacturers unveil tablet computers with bigger screens, front-facing cameras for video chatting and more.
Two Silicon Valley giants are stepping up their battle to become the dominant player in the digital newsstand.
Google is out with its list of the top internet searches of 2010 and the list is dominated by tech products and web services.
The head of Google's Android mobile operating software says the search company "bit off a little more than we could chew" with the sale of the Nexus One, a smart phone Google began selling online early this year but then stopped offering after similar devices powered by Android hit the market.
Google has opened an app store for its Chrome web-browser. CNET Editor-at-Large Brian Cooley explains.
Amazon.com is giving other merchants a chance to sell selections from its electronic book store and earn a commission.
Google is making the leap from digital librarian to merchant in a challenge to Amazon.com and its electronic reader, the Kindle.
Google has agreed to buy a company whose software is used to protect Internet video from piracy and make it play more smoothly.
Published reports are saying that Google's attempt to buy local-coupon site Groupon appears to have failed for now.
As part of a crackdown announced Thursday, Google Inc. says it will respond to complaints about pirated material posted on its YouTube video site and other services within 24 hours.
Is Google playing by the rules in the highly competitive online search market? That's what European regulators want to know as they launch the first ever anti-trust probe into the Mountain View company.
Google Inc. may be close to buying online discount service Groupon in a deal worth as much as $6 billion in what would be the search company's largest acquisition ever, according to published reports.
