Already synonymous with looking things up on the Internet, Google Inc. is creating a new name for stamping a personal touch on its website with iGoogle. Google, apparently intent on supplying users with more gadgets than a discount hardware store, has taken another step to increase its value as your starting point for the Web. […]

San Francisco – Search engine leader Google Inc. lately launched a test version of a translation tool that enables people to search the Internet in any of a dozen languages and have the results converted into their chosen tongue, underlining the rapidly growing company’s ambitions outside the United States. A beta version of Google’s “cross-language […]

Google, the world’s biggest search engine, is to ban advertisements for essay-writing services, amid claims that plagiarism is undermining the integrity of university degrees. From the coming month, Google will no longer accept adverts from companies that sell thousands of essays and dissertations from as little as £70 to as much as £5,000 each around […]

Nearly a month after dealing with battery problems in its MacBook and MacBook Pro notebook computers, Apple Inc. has been hit with a class-action lawsuit by two MacBook owners who claim the company falsely advertised the quality of the displays used in the notebooks. The lawsuit, filed on May 3 in California Superior Court in […]

Fresh off her marriage to Google Inc. co-founder Sergey Brin, biotechnology entrepreneur Anne Wojcicki is now wedded to the company too! Mountain View California-based internet search solutions provider Google Inc. has taken a small stake in a biotech company that was co-founded by the wife of one of Google’s founders, Sergey Brin, Google said in […]

The world’s top Web search company unveils a service to track the fastest-rising search queries. California — The art of trend-spotting is set to take a more scientific turn as Google Inc. has introduced a new “Hot Trends” feature on its Google Trends page. Hot Trends is Google’s newest tool for users who want to […]

New York — Internet colossus Yahoo is rumored to be working on an attempted takeover of the most popular social networking site in Britain, Bebo, and is willing to pay up to $1 billion to seal the deal to strengthen its disappointing social networking standing, according to a published report. Bebo, which was founded in […]

Microsoft, long known for catering to the geekiest of programmers, recently unveiled the alpha version of Popfly Creator, its new platform aimed at building rich Internet applications and social networking software for nonprogrammers. Popfly Creator, which combines a set of visual tools online for building web pages and mashups, along with Popfly Creator, Microsoft has […]

San Francisco – Google and Salesforce.com, two of the tech companies that are mounting serious challenges to Microsoft, may team up to take on the software giant with their combined strength. Through both words and actions, executives from Salesforce.com and Google have made clear they hold each other in high esteem. An anonymous source familiar […]

Google has taken the wraps off its new Michigan office and detailed plans for the rapid expansion of its advertising unit in the home of the University of Michigan. The high-tech ribbon-cutting for the Mountain View, Calif.-based online company brought out political leaders and featured tours of the open office as well as demonstrations of […]