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Google’s buying spree continued Monday with its purchase of Quicksee, a company blending home videos with geolocation services. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported the deal would cost Google around $10 million. Quicksee allows users to upload videos they have shot of buildings or public places and tag [...]

Facebook announced Wednesday that it’s beginning to institute a new interface that will pop up when users connect their Facebook accounts to third-party services–one which the social-networking company says will bring more “transparency” (yes, that word again) to how much information its nearly 500 million users are sharing across the Web. Consequently, when a third-party [...]

The fallout from Google’s Wi-Fi data collection gaffe continues, with the U.K. government ordering it to destroy personal data collected through the Street View project. The Information Commission’s Office in the U.K. issued the order Tuesday, according to the Guardian, following Google’s disclosure Friday that it had inadvertently collected personal data from Wi-Fi hot spots [...]

Google is giving its customers more chances to reach their audience, which means you won’t be seeing things if you’re wondering why that same ad keeps appearing. “Remarketing” is what Google is calling it, the new ability for Google advertisers to target customers who have visited their Web page with ads for their goods and [...]

A federal judge will start writing the ending to the Google Books saga on Thursday, finally paving the way for a resolution of the five-year dispute. Representatives from Google, groups representing authors and publishers, privacy advocates, and competitors will appear before Judge Denny Chin on Thursday in New York to argue–for possibly the last time–over [...]