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OK, maybe it's not that easy, but this Gallup poll has me scratching my head. It's one of the hazards of living in Silicon Valley, I guess.

Not just a search engine anymore, Google has dramatically extended its presence and influence in the online travel space in recent years.

Summer is around the corner, and it's time to stock up on all your summer beach reads.

Google is growing its retailer network for Chromebooks as it hopes to get more of the devices into the hands of consumers.

LEADERS OF THE G8 NATIONS have announced a crackdown on money laundering, tax evasion and aggressive tax avoidance at the end of a two day summit in Northern Island.

Frustrated by their difficulty prosecuting cases involving online content that is illegal or damaging to individuals, a group of state attorneys general are taking action.

Computerworld - Walmart has begun selling the Chromebook in 2,800 of its approximately 4,600 U.S. stores, expanding the reach of this still-on-the-margins platform.

Tech companies continued Tuesday their scrambled reaction to allegations that the National Security Agency can access their users' data with impunity, as Google stepped up its campaign for clarity and Yahoo disclosed its participation .

Mississippi's attorney general said on Tuesday he would subpoena documents from Google Inc as part of a probe into allegations the Web search company facilitated the sale of drugs without a prescription and other illegal products.

Attorney General Eric Holder, shown here in a file photo, and the FBI claim that publication of even aggregate numbers of government requests "is unlawful," Google told a court Tuesday.

The world's major developed economies committed Tuesday to step up efforts to make individuals and companies pay the taxes they owe.

The useful life of the average tweet can be measured in minutes. Most posts on Facebook exist in users' streams for perhaps a few hours.

Wells Fargo's Walter Price says analysts aren't giving Google enough credit for growth in its mobile and video businesses and says the stock holds more opportunity than rival internet giant Yahoo.

The application icons of Facebook, Twitter and Google are displayed on an iPhone next to an earphone set in this illustration photo taken in Berlin, June 17, 2013.

Maria Miller is urging internet and technology firms to produce plans to combat the spread of child abuse images by the autumn Internet and technology giants including Google and Microsoft are to be summoned to a meeting in Westminster where they will come under "unrelenting" pressure to do more to tackle online child porn.

Edward Snowden, the former security contractor who leaked details of the National Security Agency's Prism program, said in an online chat Monday that Silicon Valley tech companies' denials of providing access to government officials "were misleading."

Anybody connected to the Web already knows that a tweet is more than a sound a bird makes.

Steve Lee understands the hesitation some folks have about Google Glass. When he saw an early version of the concept, a pair of augmented-reality glasses that users could wear to enhance their everyday lives, he thought it was crazy.

Google has resolved a shareholder lawsuit blocking a long-delayed stock split, clearing the way for the Internet search leader to issue a new class of non-voting shares later this year.

Feedly said Monday that it has started migrating its users to its own back-end RSS infrastructure two weeks before Google is to pull the plug on its Reader service.