Rivals Google, LVMH claim victory in EU trademark case
24 Mar 2010
European Union's highest court has ruled that Google did not infringe trade mark law by allowing advertisers to bid for keywords corresponding to their competitors’ trade marks, even as it denied exemption to websites from liability for hosting such services
China blocks access as Google exits to HK
23 Mar 2010
As soon as Google announced yesterday that it would stop censoring search results and shift its Chinese-language service to servers in Hong Kong, the Chinese government reacted by using the "great firewall" to block access to certain searches.
Mobile ad rates to likely exceed PC-based search: Google
17 Mar 2010
Google has said it was very likely that search ad rates on mobile phones would surpass the rates of ads on PCs even as the number of searches on mobile phones shoots-up dramatically.
Facebook overhauls Google in web traffic
17 Mar 2010
Social networking site, Facebook, has now surpassed Google in the category of site visits when it became the most visited Web site in the US last week.
Google seen exiting China as talks deadlock
13 Mar 2010
Google prods US government to take China’s web censorship to WTO
05 Mar 2010
The US action is aimed at compelling China to defend its cesorship policies in public
Apple sues Google smartphone maker HTC over patent infringement
03 Mar 2010
Apple has sued Google’s Nexus One smartphone maker HTC, accusing it of infringing 20 Apple patents related to its popular iPhone.
Microhoo: search will be a two-horse race by year end
20 Feb 2010
According to Adam Bunn, SEO head of the UK's leading independent search marketing agency, Greenlight, says Microsoft has a good chance of increasing Bing's market share over the year, making ''Microhoo'' worth paying much more attention to from an SEO perspective
Google to provide broadband with 1 Gigabyte speed
11 Feb 2010
Google said the purpose of this project is to experiment and learn and help make internet access better and faster for everyone
Google's YouTube to launch movie rental business
22 Jan 2010
Google delays launching mobile phones in China
19 Jan 2010
Droid partners Verizon and Google pitch for net neutrality
19 Jan 2010
Google and Verizon view the FCC as something of an irritant on their way to internet domination, since the FCC can control the data flow to Google's web services through computers and the handsets Verizon offers to consumers
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