Google on Tuesday made a move to extend its already outsized influence...100m in its first year as a venture capital investor, Google executives made clear in an interview with the Financial...constraint," said Bill Maris, one of two managing partners of Google Ventures, a new financing arm announced Tuesday.The fund...

...overboard. But the free music search service launched by Google together with the music industry this week breaks...be shared with Top100.cn, a local company in which Google has a stake.Google is committed to offering ever more services that...

...Swiss data protection watchdog is taking Google to the country's Federal Administrative...protection and information commissioner, said Google had not done enough to make faces and...motion seeking to freeze any expansion of Google's activities under a temporary injunction...

Google on Thursday plugged a key gap in its growing portfolio of communication services with the acquisition of Gizmo5, a Californian start-up that handles internet-based voice calls and instant messaging.Alongside its Google Voice, Google Talk and Gmail services, Gizmo5 will give the search company with a broad set of technologies for completing and...

...could soon be overtaken by an army of Google-powered handsets.Android-based phones - handsets that use the open source Google mobile operating system - are on the...is literally about to explode". The Google chief executive stepped down as an...

...giant chocolate eclair on the front lawn at Google last month had an extra significance, other...After a slow start, Android is turning into a Google success story. The adventure began when Google bought Android, a Valley mobile software start-up...

Google sought to alleviate the concerns of privacy campaigners...company is keeping on them.Users who have signed up for Google's consumer services, such as Gmail, Blogger, Picasa, and...be able to edit and delete the information.  Tech blog: Google Dashboard "It is a reasonable start, and is acknowledged...

Google tightened its grip on digital advertising with a push deeper...smartphones it has fostered, including those powered by Google's Android software. AdMob delivered 10.2bn mobile messages...according to its own figures.Digital advertising experts said Google's timing looked better than that of rivals such as Microsoft...

When Google and representatives of the US book industry...agenda.Those concessions, according to Google's rivals and other observers, are likely...class action settlement. This would allow Google to show segments of all published works...

...jeopardising a critical $900m internet search agreement with Google.Weaker traffic means the News Corp division is now expected...at MySpace, which made social networks a household phenomenon.Google agreed in 2006 to pay News Corp $900m for the exclusive right...