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Google Girds to Defend Search Kingdom in Europe, U.S.

The European Commission is doing its due diligence in its investigation of Google's search-engine practices with a questionnaire to advertisers asking whether Google manipulated...

Google Apps SLA to Credit Customers for Any Downtime

Google got bolder with its Google Apps service-level agreement Jan. 14, removing the clause that allows for scheduled downtime for its Web-based collaboration software...

Google Hiring Mobile Payments Specialist with NFC Chops

Yes, there will be a Google mobile payments system. It's now a matter of when, not if.A week ago, BusinessWeekBloomberg said Google is building...

How Much Will the Verizon iPhone Impinge Upon Android Sales?

As I sat in the theater Jan. 11, which is totally appropriate considering I was listening to the dramatic flourish that was Verizon Wireless'...

Google Hasn’t Gotten Social Right: Marissa Mayer

Google CEO Eric Schmidt has shown a predisposition toward frankness in his answers to journalists' questions.He's even exhibited wit at inopportune times, joking about...

Google UI Designer Duarte Sweet on Honeycomb

Engadget scored this sweet interview with Google's Android user-experience lead Matias Duarte, who discussed the new Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) operating system powering the Motorola...

Google Lurks Behind Android at CES

Funny story, or at least funny to those who appreciate fine PR slipperiness.A few weeks ago--before I landed in this godforsaken city in the...

Google Hasn’t Given Up the Ghost on Social

I'm not convinced of the exact characterization when Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster -- who loves Apple -- told Bloomberg TV that Google has...

Google Mobile Payment Service Coming: Bloomberg

In one of the worst-kept secrets among Google Watchers, Google is building a payment and ad service that would let users buy products by...

Google Chrome Web Store and the Cr-48

Google's Don Dodge is having a grand ole time with his Google Chrome-based Cr-48 test notebook.I have fun with mine, too, and I've been...