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Google's China Exit Angers Shareholders
(Investor's Business Daily)
Investor's Business Daily - A Google exit from China clearly opens the door for rivals such as Baidu and Microsoft while leaving the search leader with few near-term options for capitalizing on the fastest-growing Internet market in the world, analysts say. |
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Google likely to win EU court battle over ads
(AP)
AP - Google looks likely to win a European high court battle over how it uses keywords in advertising — but legal experts say the issue is likely to keep rattling the search giant. |
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Google to add Maya, Nahuatl languages to search engine
(AFP)
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Google May Leave China By April 10, Report Says
(PC World)
PC World - Google may make good on its threat to pull out of China and leave the Communist country by April 10, according to a Chinese language newspaper report. Citing anonymous sources, Shanghai-based China Business News says that Google may be ready to pull the plug on its China operations, and could announce its decision as early as Monday. If the rumors are true it would bring an end to a controversy that has been brewing ever since Google threatened to would shut down its business operations in China following a series of cyberattacks against Google and other U.S. companies. However, pulling out of the world's fastest growing economy and most populous nation may have serious consequences for the search giant. |
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Google Says Viacom Illegally Uploaded YouTube Videos
(NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - A back-and-forth battle is brewing between Internet search giant Google and media giant Viacom. Both companies are taking aggressive legal shots against each other after Viacom filed a copyright claim against Google's YouTube service. |
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Report: Google TV Is Coming to Your Living Room
(PC World)
PC World - Google is working with Intel, Sony, and other partners to develop Google TV, a service aimed at putting the Internet search giant's Web offerings in people's living rooms, the New York Times reported Wednesday. |
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U.S. Agency Denies Google's Nexus One Trademark
(PC World)
PC World - Just as Google's Nexus One phone may be about to gain momentum, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) denied the search giant's application for the Nexus One trademark. |
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Tool Moves Exchange Customers To Google Apps
(NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Google is making it easier for IT administrators to switch from Microsoft Exchange to Google Apps. The Internet search giant on Wednesday made available a tool to help businesses migrate from Exchange. |
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Facebook Intros On-the-fly Search Result Suggestions
(PC World)
PC World - Facebook has revamped its search engine so that suggested results drop down from the search box as people type in their queries. |
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Google partners call for clarity on China plans
(Reuters)
Reuters - Chinese firms selling advertising space on Google's search pages have demanded clarity about the search giant's plans in China, as speculation increases over Google's future in the world's largest Internet market. |
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Google partners in China appeal for word on plans
(AP)
AP - Chinese companies that sell advertising on Google's China search engine have appealed for information on its future and say they might want compensation if it is shut down. |
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Google's China Ad Partners Wait in 'incomparable Pain'
(PC World)
PC World - A group of ad resellers for Google in China have asked the company to explain what will happen to them if Google shuts its China-based search engine, saying they have waited in "incomparable pain" since Google announced the possible move. |
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Microsoft Bing nabs more Web searches in February
(AP)
AP - Microsoft Corp.'s Bing search engine gained market share in the U.S. in February, according to research groups. |
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Google Starts Selling Full-price Nexus One on AT&T
(PC World)
PC World - Google on Tuesday began selling its Nexus One phone for AT&T's network, but only a full-price version is available, highlighting the challenges the search giant faces in trying to achieve its vision of an open mobile environment. |
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Schools accused in Google hacking case ask "why us?"
(Reuters)
Reuters - With Google expected to decide soon whether to close its Chinese search engine, students at one of the schools cited by some reports for being behind hacking attacks on the Internet giant are decidedly ambivalent. |
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Baidu Stock Overtakes Google's for First Time on China Spat
(PC World)
PC World - The price of stock in Chinese search engine Baidu.com surged past Google's on Monday following reports in several news sources that the U.S. giant plans to quit China's Internet search market, leaving it to Baidu. |
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China again tells Google to obey the law
(AFP)
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Google sees mobile ad rates passing PC rates
(Reuters)
Reuters - Google Inc said that it expects the rates that companies pay for search ads on mobile phones could surpass the rates of its existing PC-based ad business thanks to the growing popularity of powerful smartphones. |
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Google Expected To Pull Plug on China Operations
(NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - In an international Internet drama, Google seems closer to ending operations in China after threatening two months ago to pull out of the market. Google's Chinese-language search engine is the only major foreign competitor in the communist nation. |
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Google inches lower after China reports
(AP)
AP - Shares of Google Inc. inched lower Monday following media reports that the search giant is close to shutting down its search engine in China. |
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