Microsoft Declares War On GOOGLE

Microsoft asked European regulators Thursday to go after Google on antitrust grounds, accusing the search giant of trying to “entrench its dominance” on the Web…

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GOOGLE straps 'Street View' cam on TRICYCLES to look around parks

Google is extending its Street View website with photographs of off-road destinations that have previously not appeared online - by using specially-adapted tricycles...

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GOOGLE eyes more government deals for online apps

Google Inc. is gearing up to sell its e-mail and other Web-hosted applications to a wider range...

Spreading pornography: China accuses Google

"We have found that the English version of google.com has spread lots of pornographic, lewd and vulgar content, which is in serious violation of Chinese laws and regulations," said foreign ministry spokesman Qin Gang at a news briefing. He said authorities summoned Google representatives and told them to "remove the material immediately."

Google has rude awakening in China

Now Google is having a rude awakening. China’s authoritarian government, caught up in a trial of strength with internet users over censorship, has opened a witch hunt on Google China.

On Thursday, it accused the search engine of “severely endangering China’s youth” by linking to pornographic content – a search for the word “son” in Chinese would curiously turn up some results referring to incestuous sexual relationships.

Facebook value plummets $5billion

Facebook has sold 1.96 per cent of itself to a Russian technology investment firm for $200m. That puts Facebook's ostensible value at $10bn, a $5bn drop from the price tag Microsoft put on the company in October 2007..

Yahoo! to 'buy' it's way into Social Networking...

"I can guarantee you there will be some acquisitions, and we will do some stuff in-house."

Ari Balogh, Yahoo's chief technology officer, told Reuters Global Technology Summit.

THE END OF YAHOO? - Hope and fear mark Yahoo at crossroads

For Yahoo's ranks, still shell-shocked from deep cuts in 2008 -- including 1,600 axed jobs -- the hope that Yahoo Inc, Chief Executive Carol Bartz brings, is increasingly mixed with a dose of fear and uncertainty...

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Watch Out: credit card details of up to 19,000 shoppers were published on the internet - they could be found using a simple search on Google..

Google's high-powered search engine inadvertently picked up the list during a 'crawl' of the web - allowing it to be seen and copied.The details apparently originated from the website of a criminal gang in the Far East...

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Their Following You - Google Offers "People Tracking" GPS Software

Google is releasing free software Wednesday that enables people to keep track of each other using their cell phones...

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