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Google’s Marissa Mayer–for years one of the most high-profile faces of the company’s search team–is taking on a new role as Google appears to have made other changes to its management structure. Mayer, currently vice president of search product and user experience at Google, is getting a promotion to Google’s operating committee, tasked with overseeing [...]

Google has closed its acquisition of AdMob, following news less than a week ago that the U.S. Federal Trade Commission would not block the deal. The search giant announced plans to acquire the mobile advertising platform developer for $750 million in late 2009. Shortly after, Google revealed that the FTC had asked it for more [...]

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission won’t block Google’s $750 million acquisition of mobile advertising vendor AdMob because the deal isn’t likely to harm competition in the emerging mobile advertising market, the agency said Friday. Google’s acquisition of AdMob, announced in late 2009, combines the two leading mobile advertising networks in the U.S., raising “serious antitrust [...]

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 [...]