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October 7th, 2009 Google CEO: Europe keeping pace with US recoveryNEW YORK — Google Inc. is seeing an economic recovery under way, not just in the U.S., but also in Europe, CEO Eric Schmidt said Wednesday.

October 7th, 2009 Media6Degrees hires former Google executive as CEOPHILADELPHIA — Media6Degrees said Wednesday that it has hired a former Google Inc. executive to serve as its chief executive.

September 28th, 2009 LONDON - Google released a special misspelt version of its logo -with a double 'l'- in an attempt to mark 11 years of its creation. The search giant's name appeared as 'Googlle' on its home page on Sunday.

September 14th, 2009 Google hopes readers will 'flip' over new formatSAN FRANCISCO — Google is testing a new format that is supposed to make reading online stories as easy as flipping through a magazine. The change eventually could feed more advertising sales to revenue-starved publishers.

September 10th, 2009 SAN FRANCISCO - Google is working on a micropayment system that would allow newspapers to easily charge for online content, the web search giant has revealed in a proposal to the Newspaper Association of America. In the proposal, which was released on the internet Thursday, Google said that its micropayment system would be up and running within the year and would enable simple payment of one cent to several dollars.

September 7th, 2009 LONDON - The mystery behind the meaning of a Google doodle that featured a UFO, and was linked to the search term 'unexplained phenomenon' has been solved. Google Doodles are the various modifications or humorous features the company does to its logo that appears on its home page to mark holidays, birthdays of famous people, and major events.

August 27th, 2009 Antitrust watchdog probes Google ItalyROME — Italy's antitrust watchdog is investigating allegations by Italian newspapers that Google Italy is discriminating against newspapers that don't want their content linked on Google's news site by dropping them from its search engine. Google said the newspapers were free to remove themselves from Google News while still remaining on its search engine.

July 17th, 2009 SAN FRANCISCO - Web search giant Google reported a 19-percent increase in profits as cost cutting made up for a decline in online ad spending due to the recession. Profits rose 19 per cent to $1.48 billion from $1.25 billion a year ago.

July 16th, 2009 Google 2Q profit up 19 pct amid slowing ad salesMOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Google's second-quarter profit rose 19 percent despite the slowest revenue growth since the Internet search leader went public five years ago.

June 19th, 2009 Google invests $2.6M in startup tied to BrinMOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Google is putting another $2.6 million into 23andMe, a biotech startup with family ties to its co-founder, Sergey Brin.

June 17th, 2009 Google cedes to German demand to erase dataBERLIN — Google Inc. is willing to concede to German demands the company erase photos for its panoramic mapping service after they have been processed, a data protection official said Wednesday.

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.

May 13th, 2009 ATHENS - Greece's data protection agency has stopped Google from continuing to photograph the country's streets for its Street View service and asked further reassurances on privacy from the US Internet giant, media reports said Wednesday, Street View provides users a 360-degree view of the urban landscape via an icon on Google Maps. The Greek authority wants Google to specify how long it intends to keep its images online and what measures the search engine intends to take to inform residents who may be photographed of their rights.

April 17th, 2009 SAN FRANCISCO - Internet search powerhouse Google bucked the economic downturn in the first quarter, posting an 8.9-percent rise in profits as revenues climbed 6.2 percent. The Silicon Valley-based online advertising giant earned $1.42 billion in the quarter, up from $1.31 billion in the same quarter a year ago.

March 18th, 2009 MADRID - Content from eight of the national news agencies that own the European Pressphoto Agency (EPA) is to be made available on the Internet via Google News, under a new accord announced here. Users of Google News will be able to access both text and photos from the participating agencies, EPA and Google said in a joint statement Tuesday.