...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...

...per cent in the third quarter). In search, AOL now has less than 3 per cent of the US market, and its five-year contract with Google is up in December 2010. Less favourable terms are likely for any new agreement. At least AOL is the third largest display advertising...

...on December 10 under its original symbol "AOL".Tim Armstrong, chief executive of AOL and a former head of US advertising at Google, has said AOL will focus on developing content as it separates from one of the world's largest producers of entertainment and...

...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...

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...

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...

...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...