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Years ago, before Google grew into an Internet giant, about a dozen employees met to discuss the company's direction.

It wasn't Craig's fault. It was the internet's. Almost $10 billion in annual newspaper classified revenue has disappeared and it was essentially replaced by an estimated, unverified $100 million for craigslist with fewer than 30 employees.

Crime Stoppers will take your call anytime, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Callers are given private code numbers so they never have to give their names.

If there's one group of executives at this week's Sun Valley media and technology conference who ought to be in good spirits, it's the handful steering the fleet of Internet social networks.

Last December I offered "Nine predictions for Silicon Valley in 2009." With the year half over, it's time for an update on my crystal ball reading skills.

The case of a group of children robbed by Sprayberry High School cheerleader Chelsea Steele drew national and worldwide attention Friday, both on television and on the internet.

Ubuntu's maker, Canonical Ltd., is defiant that it can maintain its edge in the desktop Linux space despite Google Inc.'s upcoming Chrome operating system.

Justin March one of the founding Directors of local success Water Coolers Direct.com Ltd; has moved from the company to start up his own Freelance Web Design and SEO business.

The Associated Press is proposing that publishers attach descriptive tags to news articles online in hopes of taming the free-for-all of news and information on the Web and generating more traffic for established media brands.

It's difficult to imagine a global internet giant with nearly a $140 billion market cap, $16 billion in cash reserves and $7 billion in annual free cash flow having a potentially menacing weakness.

It's shaping up as a battle of the online giants. In one corner are the current champions of Australia's online real estate classifieds, realestate.com.au and Domain, and in the other corner is the challenger Google.

Everyone loves useful gadgets and Google has just come out with yet another one.

Eric Schmidt spent his first six years as Google's CEO resisting a push by the company's co-founders to develop their own operating system for personal computers.

As a blogger, I search Flickr and other photo sites for Creative Commons commercial licensed content on a daily basis.

Bing is now the thirteenth most visited site on the Web. It has a long way to go before it beats Google and has yet to overtake Yahoo, but since its release Bing.com had more visitors than Digg, Twitter or CNN.

Wow. A Google Operating System. We all knew it was coming, but it still feels weird to talk about it.

Google has announced which hardware firms have pledged to build machines that will run its Chrome OS.

Update: CHANNAHON - Four people face attempted murder charges after a couple was shot during a home invasion Tuesday morning.

Google's decision to build a PC operating system could be a master stroke or a colossal blunder, depending on whether the company has the resources that such an ambitious and long-term undertaking will require.

Following Google's announcement it's joining the OS party, Renai LeMay asks, has the search giant got what it takes to fully embrace open source? Google's revelation today that it will create its own operating system will bring just one reaction from operating system enthusiasts worldwide: "Not another Linux distribution." They'll say this because ...