
Google emerges from FTC probe relatively unscathed
Google has settled a U.S. government probe into its business practices without making any major concessions on how the company runs its Internet ...

Google chairman heading to North Korea
When he lands in North Korea, even Google's executive chairman will likely have to relinquish his smartphone, leaving him disconnected from the global ...

Google exec chairman to visit NKorea
Google's executive chairman is preparing to travel to one of the last frontiers of cyberspace: North Korea. Eric Schmidt will be traveling to North ...
Microsoft renews plea for crackdown on Google
Microsoft began the new year harping on a favorite theme: The software maker is arguing that government regulators need to crack down on Google to ...

Top business story in '12: Sluggish global economy
This would be the year when the global economy finally regained its vigor. At least that's what many had hoped. It didn't happen. The three largest ...

PSY's 'Gangnam Style' reaches 1B views on YouTube
Viral star PSY has reached a new milestone on YouTube. The South Korean rapper's video for "Gangnam Style" has reached 1 billion views, according to ...
Italian court overturns Google convictions
An Italian appeals court on Friday overturned the convictions of three Google executives found criminally responsible for a video on a Google site ...

RIM loses BlackBerry subscribers for first time
Research In Motion's stock plunged in after-hours trading Thursday after the BlackBerry maker said it plans to change the way it charges fees.
Google to sell part of Motorola for $2.35 billion
Google is selling Motorola Mobility's TV set-top business for $2.35 billion, lightening the load that the Internet search leader took on earlier this ...

Brazil company sells cellphones with iPhone name
It's not your Apple's iPhone. A Brazilian company has begun selling smartphones in Brazil with the iPhone brand after winning the legal right to use ...
Google launches 'scan and match' music service
Google is turning on a "scan and match" service for Google Music users to store copies of their songs online, offering for free what Apple charges $25 ...

Kodak sells digital imaging patents for $525M
Eastman Kodak is selling its digital imaging patents for about $525 million, money the struggling photo pioneer says will help it emerge from ...
Internet ad revenue rises 18 pct to $9.3B in 3Q
Internet advertising hit a new high in the third quarter as marketers continued to shift money from print and broadcasting. The $9.3 billion spent on ...

Nintendo's TVii a replacement for the remote
Nintendo is switching on a television service that transforms the tablet-like controller for its new Wii U game console into a remote that changes the ...

Review: New Google Maps boasts big improvements
Like a lot of people, I was happy and relieved to see Google Maps return to the iPhone. I'd been frustrated with the Apple mapping software that had ...

Google Maps return to iPhone with new mobile app
Google Maps has found its way back to the iPhone. The world's most popular online mapping system returned late Wednesday with the release of the ...
Sprint offers $2.1B for the rest of Clearwire
Sprint Nextel has offered to buy out the minority shareholders of Clearwire for $2.1 billion in a deal that would give it total control of the ...

US leads Western snub of UN telecoms treaty
A disappointed American delegation led a Western snub of a U.N. telecommunications treaty Thursday after rivals, including Iran and China, won support ...

Stocks lower as investors watch Washington
Stocks sank most of the day Thursday after more signs of tension emerged in federal budget talks. They recovered some of the loss after a late report ...
Yahoo adds 1 director as 2 board members exit
Yahoo is adding a new director and parting ways with two other board members in the latest shake-up of the Internet company's hierarchy.

Review: 2 giant phones decent, but not for size
Over the past few years, smartphones have gradually gotten bigger and tablet computers have gotten smaller. So it should come as no surprise that ...

Most Googled in 2012: Whitney, PSY, Sandy
The world's attention wavered between the tragic and the silly in 2012, and along the way, millions of people searched the Web to find out about a ...

Yahoo revamps email in bid to catch up with Gmail
Yahoo is spiffing up and expanding its email service in an attempt to regain some of the ground lost to a Google alternative that lured away millions ...

Government investigating makers of cellphone apps
The government is investigating whether software companies that make cellphone apps violated the privacy rights of children by quietly collecting ...