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  • Google sues over work-at-home schemes

    Google filed a lawsuit Monday against a U.S. company it alleges runs work-at-home scams that unnecessarily charge people's credit cards and spoof Google's brand name.

  • Google exec claims non-hiring a deliberate policy

    Google holds back from hiring some people it believes are doing good work, because it's better for the internet industry not to concentrate too much talent in one place, a Google executive claimed last week.

  • Google goes with HTML5 over Gears

    Google will end Gears, an open-source plug-in project it launched two years ago to allow Web applications to function even when a computer isn't connected to the Internet, according to a statement from the company.

  • Can Google really hack it in business?

    After conquering the search world, Google is now pushing hard to be a major provider of business software, tackling longtime dominator Microsoft over productivity and collaboration apps. But does this company, most famous for free consumer-oriented offerings like search and basic apps, have what it takes to be taken seriously by business? Can you really rely on Google Apps?

  • Google to buy display ad company

    Just two weeks after buying mobile advertising company AdMob, Google on Monday announced plans to purchase Teracent, an online display advertising company.

  • Google aims for faster web downloads

    Google is hoping to make web pages download up to twice as quickly using SPDY, a new application-layer protocol it's experimenting with, the company says in a blog post.

  • Google VP describes the perfect search engine

    Last month, Google CEO Eric Schmidt said during the company's earnings call that Google had implemented about 120 search quality improvements during the third quarter, as the company moves toward its ultimate goal: "We want to get to the perfect search engine."

  • Microsoft, other rivals slam Google Chrome OS

    Microsoft is, predictably, not all that impressed by Google's demonstration of its upcoming Chrome OS, but neither were a number of potential rivals in the Linux and instant-on operating system space.

  • Google, plaintiffs submit revised book search settlement

    Right up against a deadline to submit a revised settlement agreement to a judge overseeing a lawsuit filed against Google by the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers, the parties filed their second take near midnight on Friday. The original settlement agreement had come under fire from many parties but most notably from the U.S. Department of Justice, whose withering and broad critique of the deal led the judge to demand revisions in the proposal.

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