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Beijing .- A 28-year-old Chinese man who was kidnapped 23 years ago and sold to a family 1,500 kilometers from his home, has met up with his biological parents again thanks to Google Maps, Hunan TV said Friday.

'Google is cheating British taxpayers out of millions... what they are doing is just immoral': Web giant accused of running 'scandalous' tax avoidance scheme by whistleblower A former Google executive turned whistleblower says he has 100,000 emails that expose the 'immoral' tax avoidance scheme used by his former employer.

Customers of Lifeline, a federal program for low-income Americans, benefit by getting discounted phone service.

When investors think Apple Inc. , they often think of the company's ecosystem. Hedge fund manager David Einhorn has long argued for Apple Inc.

A job at Google - who wouldn't leap at the chance. In this movie, being released in June, two recently laid off 40-something salesmen have got an interview for an internship at Google that might in turn lead to a job.

Google staged four discussions expounding on the finer points of its "Glass" wearable computer during this week's developer conference.

Creative ideas come from everywhere, but it's not often you see a search engine giving utilities business advice.

Young tech firms would have us believe they represent a new model of business. Too often, their tax affairs tell a different story 'You know most of them would be sitting down with Pyongyang in a heartbeat if they thought there was a few extra quid in it.' Illustration by Otto Whenever I think of those iconoclasts at Google, changing the very ... (more)

Internet retailer Amazon.com Inc. will be called back to the British parliament to clarify how its activities in the UK justify its low corporate income tax bill, two lawmakers told Reuters.

UVS Junction LLC has hired Dominic Trono to oversee the web development and software firm's in-house search engine optimization service.

The true pace of mobile and local search can be seen when the market withstands an entire column's worth of updates and announcements in just one month.

Quantum computing may be the key to solving some of the most challenging computer science problems.

Welcome to this morning's edition of " First To Know ," a series in which we keep you in the know on what's happening in the digital world.

"Technology should do the hard work so people can get on doing the things that make them happiest in life," Page told a crowd of 6,000 software developers and entrepreneurs who flocked to San Francisco Wednesday for the opening day of Google's annual showcase for its latest breakthroughs.

The corporation should be honest about its cartographic ethos: its Google Maps app is partly a tool for delivering ads The Hereford mappa mundi, c 1285, shows Jerusalem at the centre of the world.

Google CEO Larry Page delivered a simple message to a crowd of developers Wednesday: we need to stop fighting over little things and work together.

A Russian-financed search engine seeking to challenge Google's dominance in Vietnam is redirecting queries for some politically sensitive terms to the American company's website, apparently as a way of avoiding government anger or legal liability for sending surfers to sites containing criticism of the ruling party.

In these images taken from TV, Google executive Matt Brittin gives evidence to a parliamentary Public Accounts Committee on tax avoidance, in the Boothroyd Room, London Thursday May 16, 2013.

Google always likes to have a little fun when their "image searches" reach milestones.

Telstra has issued a formal apology to affected customers after phone numbers, names and home addresses contained in spreadsheets were found online during a Google search.