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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.

Infrastructure nerds, it's time to meet the accountants. At this year's Structure conference this Wednesday and Thursday we're focusing on the economics of cloud computing, not just for vendors, but for practitioners.

According to a presentation from Tim Reis , who leads Google's mobile and social solutions teams in the Americas, 73% of mobile searches trigger additional action.

Google on Saturday said that it's building a "cross industry database" of encrypted "fingerprints" of child sexual abuse images to "enable companies, law enforcement and charities to better collaborate on detecting and removing these images, and to take action against the criminals."

According to Mother Jones magazine, surprising data reveals Pakistan , one of the world's least tolerant nations toward gays, is the world leader for Google searches of gay porn.

Google announced plans over the weekend to remove child pornography images from the web by using a new, picture-sharing database.

DuckDuckGo, the search engine that doesn't track users, has broken traffic records this week with almost 2.5 million searches on Thursday alone.

It should come as no surprise that popularity of movie trailers is correlated with a movie's success.

The intelligence community has provided Congress additional counterterrorism justification for the government's controversial stockpiles of telephone and Internet records.

A New Zealand computer scientist says we should be worried about the size and role of Google on the internet.