Google to offer content from European news agencies

September 30th, 2009 According to the sources, in a well put up strategic policy, Google has decided to send as many as 1,00,000 invitations to developers all across the world in order to preview "Google Wave", the new communication and collaboration tool that the company plans to officially launch sometime next year. This unusual but yet speculated to be effective move draws top notch developers all across the world to come and test the yet-to-be-released Google Wave and give their expert reviews and views over the tool.

September 25th, 2009 AT&T complains Google Voice blocks calls it can'tSEATTLE — AT&T is arguing Google's Internet phone program gets an unfair advantage from blocking calls to rural communities where local carriers charge high fees. AT&T Inc. says Google Voice curbs costs by refusing to connect calls to places where some local carriers give phone numbers to adult chat lines and conference-calling services to draw long distance calls.

September 10th, 2009 Google willing to share digital books with rivalsMOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Google will let other online companies sell its digital copies of out-of-print books if a class-action settlement with U.S.

September 6th, 2009 The Google "unexplained phenomenon" has caused quite a buzz amongst the netizens in recent times regarding Google choosing an UFO (Unidentified Flying Object) for their Google doodle or for their logo. Several users of Google along with other web aficionados have come up with their own story in their Facebook and Twitter page in order to explain why Google chose UFO or unexplained phenomenon to display upon their website this weekend.

September 3rd, 2009 Google to draw up new privacy policy for booksWASHINGTON — Google has agreed to draw up a separate privacy policy for its digital library in response to a request from the Federal Trade Commission. The concessions come amid a growing outcry among critics who believe a class-action settlement with U.S.

August 11th, 2009 Judge allows objection to Google Book dealSAN FRANCISCO — A judge has granted The Media Exchange Company Inc. the opportunity to file an objection to a settlement reached between Google Inc.

August 3rd, 2009 Google launches rare ad campaign to sell more appsSAN FRANCISCO — Google is launching a rare marketing campaign Monday to try to boost its sales of online business applications. The Mountain View, Calif.-based company is leasing billboards along major highways in New York, San Francisco, Chicago and Boston this month to promote a bundle of business applications that sells for $50 per worker annually.

July 1st, 2009 Google silences news commentary featureMOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Google has quietly dropped a feature that allowed people mentioned in news stories to comment on the articles.

May 14th, 2009 Google glitch disrupts search engine, e-mailMOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Google says it has fixed the technical problems that have prevented an unknown number of people from using its Internet search engine, e-mail and other services.

April 30th, 2009 LONDON - Internet search engine Google has become the world's first 100 billion dollar brand. It is worth almost 25 per cent more than rival computing corporation Microsoft, according to the annual BrandZ Top 100 Most Valuable Brands report.

April 22nd, 2009 Second Life to let users filter adult contentNEW YORK — Second Life is getting a little less steamy for people who want to use the virtual world for a myriad of PG-rated experiences, such as taking classes, prototyping buildings or designing virtual goods. For those who don't, Second Life is moving adult-oriented content to a new, X-rated "continent" so they can continue to frolic as their heart desires.

April 17th, 2009 LOS ANGELES - YouTube has struck deals with major Hollywood TV and film studios to distribute full length movies and TV shows on the Google-owned video streaming site, the company announced Thursday. YouTube, which is the internet's largest video site, announced a string of deals with entertainment companies CBS, Sony Pictures, MGM and the BBC, to post their content online.

April 12th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A newspaper study has revealed that teenagers think that news is a free commodity and they love aggregation sites. The findings may acts as a bad news for online newspapers as two of the big industry ideas right now are-charge for content, and put the aggregators out of business.

March 23rd, 2009 LONDON - Doctors have sounded an alarm over Google's links to medical ads and suggested that web pages which carry worrisome medical claims should be avoided. Marco Masoni and colleagues at the University of Florence in Italy suggest that as the Internet is not well policed and regulated, it is up to members of the medical community to be vigilant and to suggest improvements.

March 21st, 2009 LONDON - Google needs to keep a strict check on the its advertisements and suggested links to avoid providing users with web pages that contain dubious medical claims, warn doctors. While writing in British Medical Journal, Dr Marco Masoni from the University of Florence in Italy revealed that as the internet is not well policed and regulated, it is up to members of the medical community to be vigilant and to suggest improvements.