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The camera of a Google street-view car. The US state of Connecticut said Friday it would hold negotiations with Google over the collection of private wireless data by its Street View mapping cars and not take the Internet giant to court. The US state of Connecticut said Friday it would hold negotiations with Google over [...]

Internet giant Google said social media was “absolutely” part of its strategy and would be embedded in “many of our products” but played down its rivalry with networking icon Facebook. CFO Patrick Pichette on Sunday said Google was at the centre of an exploding digital economy where computer power was “relentlessly, dramatically increasing” and innovation [...]

US Google Books head Dan Clancy (R) shakes hand with France’s biggest publisher Hachette Livre head Arnaud Nourry on Wednesday. The two companies struck an agreement to scan thousands of out-of-print French books for Google’s onlien library. Internet giant Google struck an agreement with France’s biggest publisher Hachette Livre to scan thousands of out-of-print French [...]

Associations representing major French companies accused US Internet giant Google on Monday of overstepping the mark by putting brand names up for auction as search keywords. Associations representing major French companies accused US Internet giant Google on Monday of overstepping the mark by putting brand names up for auction as search keywords. (c) 2010 AFP

Following months of controversy over privacy, US Internet giant Google put its first images from Germany online Tuesday as part of its Street View navigation service. Following months of controversy over privacy, US Internet giant Google put its first images from Germany online Tuesday as part of its Street View navigation service. (c) 2010 AFP

A patriotic poster showing the shape of China is seen at a store in Chengdu, in China’s southwestern province of Sichuan. China has launched an official online mapping service as US Internet giant Google continues to hold out on applying for a licence to provide a similar service in the country, state media said Friday. [...]

(AP) — Internet giant Google says more than 244,000 Germans have asked that their homes be made unrecognizable in its Street View program, scheduled to launch in Germany next month. ©2010 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Map showing the disputed islands in the East China Sea known as Senkaku in Japanese and Diaoyu in Chinese. Japan said on Thursday that Internet giant Google should drop from its map service the Chinese name for a disputed island chain at the centre of a bitter feud between Tokyo and Beijing. Japan said on [...]

A woman looks on from behind a laptop computer screen displaying the new landing page on google.cn, which links to an uncensored Hong Kong site on July 2010 in Beijing. Google released a new online tool on Tuesday that shows where the Internet giant’s services such as YouTube are being blocked around the world. Google [...]

Google says that it has dismissed an engineer for violating the Internet giant’s privacy policies. Google did not provide any details about the engineer’s offenses but the website Gawker.com said he was fired in July for allegedly accessing the accounts of four teenagers without their consent. Google said that it had dismissed an engineer for [...]