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Internet retailer Amazon.com Inc. will be called back to the British parliament to clarify how its activities in the UK justify its low corporate income tax bill, two lawmakers told Reuters.

UVS Junction LLC has hired Dominic Trono to oversee the web development and software firm's in-house search engine optimization service.

The true pace of mobile and local search can be seen when the market withstands an entire column's worth of updates and announcements in just one month.

Quantum computing may be the key to solving some of the most challenging computer science problems.

Welcome to this morning's edition of " First To Know ," a series in which we keep you in the know on what's happening in the digital world.

"Technology should do the hard work so people can get on doing the things that make them happiest in life," Page told a crowd of 6,000 software developers and entrepreneurs who flocked to San Francisco Wednesday for the opening day of Google's annual showcase for its latest breakthroughs.

The corporation should be honest about its cartographic ethos: its Google Maps app is partly a tool for delivering ads The Hereford mappa mundi, c 1285, shows Jerusalem at the centre of the world.

Google CEO Larry Page delivered a simple message to a crowd of developers Wednesday: we need to stop fighting over little things and work together.

A Russian-financed search engine seeking to challenge Google's dominance in Vietnam is redirecting queries for some politically sensitive terms to the American company's website, apparently as a way of avoiding government anger or legal liability for sending surfers to sites containing criticism of the ruling party.

In these images taken from TV, Google executive Matt Brittin gives evidence to a parliamentary Public Accounts Committee on tax avoidance, in the Boothroyd Room, London Thursday May 16, 2013.

Google always likes to have a little fun when their "image searches" reach milestones.

Telstra has issued a formal apology to affected customers after phone numbers, names and home addresses contained in spreadsheets were found online during a Google search.

Mobile isn't just for finding local merchants to start the shopping experience. Recent data from Google shows mobile is a shopping companion while consumers are in the store looking to buy.

Google will face a fresh grilling over its tax affairs after the global corporation was recalled to give evidence to a parliamentary inquiry.

Amazon.com's main UK unit paid 2.4m in taxes in 2012 on sales of 4.3bn, newly-published accounts have revealed.

Google's sixth annual conference for software developers opened Wednesday with a chance for the company to showcase its latest services.

Google is under pressure to act over the ease with which Stuart Hazell was able to use the internet to fuel his child-sex fantasies.

We're all used to the idea that Google tracks what we do online. But if you go to Google I/O, you'll find that the data-hungry company, in partnership with the O'Reilly Data Sensing Lab , is keeping tabs on the physical world, too.

Vietnam's booming Internet scene is littered with failed startups that tried to take on Google and other entrenched U.S web companies.

Google Inc has signed licensing deals with Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment to launch a subscription music service that would compete with fast-growing start-up Spotify, according to a report on Tuesday in technology blog The Verge.