The internal Google documents, marked “highly confidential,” were obtained and released by media company Viacom Inc. in part to bolster its case in a $1 billion copyright lawsuit against Google and YouTube.
Viacom alleges the companies built YouTubes success by promoting the unlicensed use of video taken from Viacom cable channels such as MTV, [...]

The changes introduced Monday include several editing tools for word processing and quicker ways to fill cells in spreadsheets. The new features have long been staples in Microsofts widely used Office suite of software.
Google Inc. has been trying to lure users away from Microsoft Corp.s products for several years in an effort to [...]

The prank Web sites were rolled out Thursday in a collective effort to amuse, not confuse. In a way, its the Internets biggest holiday.
YouTube offered the curious option of watching videos in text – essentially a stream of code instead of images.
The comedy video site FunnyOrDie.com was revamped as Bieber or Die, its home page [...]

Schmidts 2009 package totaled $245,322, down from $508,764 in 2008, according to documents filed Monday with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The sharp decrease reflected lower bills for protecting Schmidt and flying his personal guests on jets chartered by Google.
Schmidts personal security cost Google $233,542 last year compared to $402,562 the previous year. Google spent $10,119 [...]

U.S. politicians and businesses have complained about the Chinese governments actions in keeping its currency at a low value against the U.S. dollar which makes Chinese goods cheaper for American buyers – and hikes the cost of American goods for Chinese shoppers.
U.S. companies also complain about barriers to doing business in China.
Search engine Google Inc., [...]

For more than a year, the illiterate mother appealed to various government departments in Fujian provinces Mingqin county, pleading for someone to take a closer look at the death of 25-year-old Yan Xiaoling that police blamed on an ectopic pregnancy.
Lin, 50, was sobbing outside a government office last summer when she met self-taught legal expert [...]

The alliance comes as Hollywood tries to tap global markets more aggressively and as Indian movie studios grow in size and stature – narrowing the gap between Indian and U.S. filmmakers, who have not always seen eye-to-eye on intellectual property issues.
A year in the making, the coalition to fight film piracy in India will work [...]

In the first criminal “sexting” case to reach a federal appeals court, the Philadelphia-based 3rd U.S. District Court of Appeals ruled against Wyoming County District Attorney Jeff Mitchell, whose predecessor had threatened to pursue felony charges against the girl unless she agreed to participate in a diversionary program and write an essay explaining what she [...]

The latest version of the Nexus One unveiled Tuesday could make the device a more serious challenger to the iPhone, which uses AT&T Inc.s 3G network as its main communications channel in the United States.
The Nexus One had been running on AT&Ts slower networks since Google began selling the handset in early January. The switch [...]

Microsoft has worked for years to improve its search technology and narrow the gap with Google Inc. After launching its redesigned search site last June, the company waged a major marketing campaign to position Bing as better than Google or No. 2 Yahoo for shopping, booking travel and searching for medical information.
Microsoft remains in the [...]