...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...

...internet is finding out a lot about them. Google said this week it will follow Yahoo and...depend on advertising revenue, such as Google but also the media, gain a more solid economic footing.Google attempts to do this by having websites...

...The unusual move will deepen Google's influence, given the long...of the PC software business.Google executives claimed, however...entrepreneurs and people doing amazing things at a time when a general...to acquiring them later on, Google said its investments would...

...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...

Google executives are quietly rehearsing their arguments against...clients welcome the prospect of a stronger rival emerging to Google."If we have two competitors, a duopoly is better than a...Martin Sorrell, chief executive of WPP, who has dubbed Google a "frenemy" - both friend and enemy to advertisers. Some...

Google has abandoned its search advertising partnership with Yahoo in the face of an antitrust...prevent its implementation.The deal meant more to Yahoo and its embattled management team than Google. In a statement, Yahoo said it was "disappointed that Google has elected to withdraw from the agreement rather than defend it in court".Yahoo had been...

...AOL chief executive and a former Google executive, is trying to identify market...dominate after falling behind rivals Google, Yahoo and Microsoft.AOL's full-year 2008 revenue was $4.2bn, compared with Google's $21.8bn and Yahoo's $5.4bn. It ranked...

...turning to the man who helped transform Google into the most powerful online advertising...lured Tim Armstrong, the president of Google's North American sales team, to be chief...with Yahoo, Microsoft, News Corp and even Google, it has yet to agree on any deal. The...

...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...