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 startup is trying to make money without alienating the tens of millions of people who have gotten used to tweeting and following friends, celebrities and others without commercial interruptions. Just as it has through most of its four-year existence, Twitter is treading cautiously.
The new ads, called “promoted tweets,” will pop up only on searches [...]

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 publisher of the Chinese edition and publicity agents for the tour believe Ken Aulettas book tour no longer made sense, because even if Chinese media attend, they wont be able to report anything, the author said in a phone interview late Wednesday.
“Googled: The End of the World as We Know It,” by the New [...]

The “malware” has targeted “potentially tens of thousands” of people who downloaded software allowing users to type in Vietnamese, a posting on Googles online security blog said Tuesday. It said the malware has been used for “damaging purposes” – to attack blogs containing messages of political dissent.
“Specifically, these attacks have tried to squelch opposition to [...]

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 [...]

The information expected to be unsealed Thursday will include some of the evidence that Viacom and Google-owned YouTube have collected to prove their respective points, but have kept under wraps so far during their 3-year-old dispute over copyright law.
The sensitive material is emerging now because Viacom and YouTube are citing some of the documents as [...]

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 [...]

The online store that was announced late Tuesday marks another step in Googles crusade to convert the world to “cloud computing,” the idea of running applications in Web browsers instead of installing them on individual hard drives. The information entered in the programs also is stored in data centers run by third parties such as [...]

The new bicycling directions available on Google Maps starting Wednesday supplement the guidance already provided to motorists and pedestrians. The biking directions initially will be available only for the United States.
Google spent the past six months tweaking its mapping service so it could recommend routes that would steer bicyclists away from big hills [...]