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I'm dusting off my crystal ball with confidence this time. After going roughly 8 1/2-for-9 on my predictions for 2009 , it's easy for me to get cocky.

Lawyers for Google rested their case in defense of four executives charged in Italy with failing to comply with privacy laws, telling a judge that the company has a mechanism in place to rapidly remove objectionable video from its site.

Perhaps David Lawee, Google Inc.'s vice president of corporate development, wasn't being as general as we thought a couple weeks ago when he said that investment bankers "almost invariably" complicate the dealmaking process.

Last weekend, the buzz in the blogosphere over Motorola's anticipated Sholes "tablet" device heated up following the brief appearance of Moto XT701 on the company's Chinese Web site, complete with specs.

Google owners Larry Page and Sergey Brin and former Paypal owner Elon Musk who is now CEO of Telsa Motors Inc.

It governs how we think, manage and govern. But Google does not own the world or want to.

Point Roberts, WA - Chartpoppers.com announces an investment report featuring company Google Inc.

PARIS: Despite fierce resistance to Google's plans to digitize the world's books, observers say it is well placed to start scanning Europe's cultural treasures beginning in France, where the US giant got a digital foothold this week.

In case you missed the thousands of news articles and blogs in the last few days, the potentially game-changing Google Phone looks to be official.

Google is rumored to be acquiring consumer review site Yelp, a move that could give it a boost in mobile search advertising, where it could use some more muscle.

Google Inc. has been ordered to pay three French publishers $430,000 in a lawsuit over online book publication.

While big publishers try to figure out how to get millions of web users to pay for their content, indie bloggers continue to churn out blog posts for free, or barely monetized with search and display ads from Google's AdSense - if they're lucky.

Quantum computing may be coming to a search engine near you. Google and D-Wave are working together on a project to bring quantum computing to searches in a way that would, in a sense, teach machines to recognize images.

With its entry into the handset market with the rumored Nexus One, will Google cannibalize all of the other Android smartphones out there? Or, will Google provide the leadership that Android needs to create some unity among the ranks? If all Android apps could work on all Android phones, for example, it would be a huge plus for developers and ...

On2 Technologies, Inc. and Google Inc. jointly announced today that the exchange ratio, or the fraction of a share of Google Class A Common Stock to be issued for each share of On2 Common Stock in connection with Google's proposed acquisition of On2, will be 0.0010. Any fractional share of Google Class A Common Stock resulting from the exchange of ...

A promise to include rival browsers in Windows helps Microsoft concluded its protracted sparring with European regulators.

Four Google executives should not be held responsible for a video posted online that showed teenagers abusing an autistic youth in Turin, their lawyers argued Wednesday in an Italian court.

About a year after it first appeared as a Windows application, Google's Chrome browser is finally available in beta for Linux.

Google Inc. is determined to gain more influence over how the Web is used on mobile phones, even if the next step in the quest tramples some of the relationships forged during its two-year expansion into the wireless industry.

South African investors can now trade on the world's most well-known IT names, Microsoft and Google, the JSE says.