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Consumer Watchdog took its crusade against Google to new heights Thursday, running ads in New York’s Times Square blasting CEO Eric Schmidt on privacy issues. The group’s Inside Google site produced two videos (hosted on YouTube, of course) depicting Schmidt as a creepy maniacal ice-cream truck driver handing out free ice cream to children while [...]

Google denied Thursday a report in the New York Times that it was near an agreement with Verizon over Net neutrality that could lead to Google paying Verizon for preferred service. Several reports have emerged over the last couple of days that Google and Verizon are in discussions over the best way to resolve an [...]

Honing in on the lucrative government market for business applications, Google introduced on Monday Google Apps for Government, featuring its suite of cloud-based business applications equipped with extra security precautions. The suite, with such applications as Gmail email and Google Calendar, offers U.S. government FISMA (Federal Information Security Management Act) moderate-level certification. Also, government user [...]

Google CEO Eric Schmidt, right, speaks at a news conference at the annual Allen & Co. Media summit in Sun Valley, Idaho, Thursday, July 8, 2010, with Google co-founders Larry Page, center, and Sergei Brin, left. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik) (AP) — Google CEO Eric Schmidt said Thursday he expects Beijing to renew the license the [...]

Google has reached an agreement to buy ITA Software, a maker of air-travel flight-information software whose customers include major airlines and online travel agencies. Google will pay $700 million in cash for the Cambridge, Mass.-based software vendor, the companies announced on Thursday. [ Stay ahead of the key tech business news with InfoWorld's Today's Headlines: [...]

Google attached a slightly finer launch window to its Chrome OS software this week, according to reports out of Computex. Google’s Sundar Pichai, vice president of product management and leader of the Chrome OS project, told reporters gathered at the annual hardware industry blowout in Taiwan that the Netbooks or other devices running the operating [...]

How much bigger can Google’s world get? As Google prepares for its third major developer conference, it’s getting ready to pitch its vision for the future of computing to 5,000 developers and media at San Francisco’s Moscone center. When I/O kicks off on Wednesday, don’t expect Google CEO Eric Schmidt to break out into a [...]

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.–Google executives faced little hostility at the company’s annual stockholder meeting Thursday, other than a familiar complaint: it’s hard to call people at Google. Chairman and CEO Eric Schmidt presided over the meeting of several hundred stockholders, outlining Google’s overall vision of the computing world and fielding questions from attendees. The formal business [...]

Google spent more than $250 million on a total of 10 acquisitions during the first quarter of the year, putting it on quite a pace for 2010. Most of the individual companies that Google buys are pretty small, and sell for prices low enough that Google doesn’t have to disclose how much it paid because [...]

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.–After a little over a year in the venture capital business, Google now has 10 start-ups under its wing and plans further growth in 2010. A mobile payments company called Corduro became the latest start-up to accept funding from Google Ventures on Monday, as fund executives hosted a wide-ranging discussion on the state [...]