Google has asked a federal judge in California to rule that Kai-Fu Lee’s contract with Microsoft is unenforceable and that the researcher should be allowed to join Google unfettered by the terms of his employment deal. The two rivals are locked in a legal dispute over the hiring of Lee. Google announced on July 19 […]

The gatekeeper of the world’s information is planning to become one of the globe’s biggest Internet providers? For the past year, Google has quietly been shopping for miles and miles of "dark," or unused, fiber-optic cable across the country from wholesalers such as New York’s AboveNet. It’s also acquiring super fast connections from Cogent Communications […]

Yahoo is blasting into San Francisco with plans to lease 200,000 square feet downtown. The search engine and portal company has signed a letter of intent at 475 Sansome St. and has a 90-day exclusive right to negotiate, according to sources familiar with the deal. A Yahoo spokesperson declined to comment. Rreef, which owns the […]

Its lips are sealed, but its moves rattle everyone from Microsoft to eBay!!! In years past, Microsoft Corp. could freeze competitors and send investors scurrying just by uttering the name of a market it fancied. Today, Google Inc. is the 800-pound octopus that is filling potential rivals with dread and envy.

Google, the world’s most popular internet search engine, may soon become the world’s most popular telephone service provider. The web giants launching of a new service called Google Talk, which allows users to make free telephone calls to anywhere in the world via the internet. In effect it would mean overseas and long-distance calls could […]

Google’s GMail service has been opened up to the public after being invitation-only since its inception. The only catch is that you must have a cell phone. Considering that everyone and a grandma has a cell phone these days, that shouldn’t be too much of a problem: The mobile phone requirement was designed to prevent […]

In its fight with Microsoft over an executive’s defection, Google has enlisted attorneys from a small but high-powered law firm. Kekar & Van Nest, a 50-lawyer firm based in San Francisco, represented Grokster in its legal battle over file sharing, and also represented Wall Street banker Frank Quattrone and former Enron leader Andrew Fastow in […]

Adult magazine publisher Perfect 10 is seeking a preliminary injunction against Google to stop the search giant from allegedly displaying copyright images of its models. Perfect 10, in a filing with the US District Court in Los Angeles, asked the court to immediately halt Google from allegedly copying, displaying and distributing more than 3,000 Perfect […]

In a contest billed as "Good vs. Evil" Google ‘The Geeks’ beat Microsoft ‘The Nerds’ in the Golden Penguin Bowl! Not too long ago, Google Inc. seemed little more than a pesky insect to Microsoft Corp.’s 800-pound gorilla. It pits Microsoft chairman Bill Gates against the new darlings of the tech world, Google founders Sergey […]

Google Inc. announced the formal launch of Google Desktop Search, a free downloadable application which enables users to search for information on their own computers. Previously in beta, the final 1.0 release adds search over the full text of PDFs and the meta-information stored with music, image and video files. Additional enhancements include support for […]