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2 hrs ago | International Business Times

Google Kneels Before Indian Internet Censorship God, Removes Objectionable Contents

The world's No.1 search engine told a New Delhi district court that it has removed some "objectionable" contents, which is religiously sensitive, published in some Web sites, after the court warned of a Members of All India Minorities Front hold placards during a protest in New Delhi June 26, 2007.

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Related Topix: World News, India, Asia, Startups, Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Internet, Science / Technology, Social Software

6 hrs ago | The Guardian

Apps Rush: Chrome, The Walking Dead, OneNote, Ladyhawke, Bullet Asylum and more

Google has ported its Chrome web browser to Android smartphones and tablets: initially those running the latest Ice Cream Sandwich software.

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Related Topix: Startups, Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Instagram, Facebook, iPod touch App, iPad App, iPhone and iPad App, iPhone App, iPhone, Ipad, Science / Technology

Tue Feb 07, 2012

ITworld

Google to commit to offer some Motorola patents on FRAND terms

Google is planning to send a letter to standards setting organizations, stating that Motorola Mobility's standards-essential patents will continue to be available on FRAND terms after its acquisition of the company, a person close to the situation said late Tuesday.

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Related Topix: Startups, Cell Phones, Cellphones, Electronics

Wired

Greenpeace Hates Big Tech, But Wants To Kill Google Least

On Tuesday, the big-name environmental-rights outfit unveiled its annual ranking of the tech giants working hardest to combat climate change and shift their operations to renewable energy sources.

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Related Topix: Startups, Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Energy, Solar Energy, Mountain View, CA, Social Software

The Campbell Reporter

Four Yahoo board members departing, including Chairman Roy Bostock

The chairman of Yahoo's board, Roy Bostock, will not return to the board in the next round of elections along with three other board members for the Sunnyvale Internet company, Yahoo announced Tuesday.

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Related Topix: Startups, Yahoo!, PayPal, Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Advertising, Venture Capital

Digital Game Developer

Blancspot Media Launches Interactive Social News App for Google TV

"We created Blancspot to offer a social news experience that would follow users from their Android phones, tablets and now to Google TV.

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Related Topix: iPod touch App, iPad App, Google+, iPhone and iPad App, iPhone App, Startups, Emerging Technology, Search Engines

SiliconValley.com

Google launches Chrome browser for Android smartphones

With more and more people connecting to the Internet through a phone or a tablet instead of a PC, Google is bringing its fast-growing browser, Chrome, to the newest Android-powered mobile devices.

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Related Topix: Startups, Mozilla, Computers

Search Engine Watch

Beginner's Guide to Link Prospecting Using Google Search

Google is a no-cost, simple, and powerful tool for quickly finding link prospects.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Startups

901am

Google To Pay Fine in France For Google Maps

I remember a time when offering something for free would elicit gratitude and calls for the person to run for president.

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Related Topix: Startups

Boston.com

What earnings reports have revealed about ads

Here are highlights of recent quarterly earnings reports from selected Internet and media companies and what they say about the state of spending on advertising: Jan.

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Related Topix: Startups, Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Microsoft, Internet, Science / Technology, Yahoo!

Mon Feb 06, 2012

Boston.com

Google to the rescue

CustomMade Ventures Corp. cofounder and CEO Mike Salguero, left, and cofounder and CFO Seth Rosen, right, pose with Michael Margolis.

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Related Topix: Startups, Emerging Technology, Search Engines, CustomMade Ventures, Venture Capital, Hanover, NH, Marketing

CIO

Appeals Court Denies Google Bid to Keep Email Out of Oracle Trial

Google has failed in its latest attempt to keep a potentially damaging email out of the lawsuit Oracle filed against it over alleged Java intellectual-property violations in the Android mobile OS.

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Related Topix: Startups, Emerging Technology, Search Engines, US News, Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, Larry Page, Sergey Brin

Silicon Alley Insider

Google Has Started Laying Fiber For Super-Fast Internet In Kansas City

After almost a a year of planning, Google today began rolling out its fiber backbone in Kansas City , and will start stretching the fiber to homes later this year to deliver blazing-fast Internet access and possibly pay TV.

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Related Topix: Startups, Kansas City, KS, Social Software, LinkedIn

GigaOM

Is Volunia Italy's answer to Google - or just hot air?

You can forgive Massimo Marchiori for wanting his moment in the sun. After all, it's fifteen years since the Italian academic created Hyper Search , a system for ranking web pages that proved a great inspiration for Larry Page and Sergey Brin's early attempts in online search.

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Related Topix: Startups, Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Internet, Science / Technology

The Globe and Mail

Facebook, Google bow to Indian censorship demands

The two are among 21 companies asked to develop a mechanism to block objectionable material after a private petitioner took them to court over images deemed offensive to Hindus, Muslims and Christians.

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Related Topix: Startups, Emerging Technology, Search Engines, World News, India,

The Washington Post

Microsoft Attacks Google Privacy With `Gmail Man'

Microsoft Corp., aiming to take advantage of a backlash against Google Inc.'s policy changes, is rolling out new ads that say its rival is risking users' privacy to squeeze more revenue out of them.

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Related Topix: Microsoft, Startups, Science / Technology

AGBeat

Google rumored to have nabbed top talent from Apple

Google has broken the long-held "no poach" agreement between Google and Apple by hiring an Apple senior director of product integrity for a secret Google project, according to VentureBeat.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Startups, Social Software, Colorado State University, Marketing, University of Colorado Denver

Sun Feb 05, 2012

KSEE-TV Fresno

Google Earth Update Erases 'Atlantis' Error

A Google Earth map that raised rumors of the lost city of Atlantis has gotten a much-needed update, ridding the seafloor of a gridlike pattern that some vigilant users suspected were sunken streets from the mythological underwater city.

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Related Topix: Startups, Oceanography, Science, UC San Diego

ZDNet Blogs

Bing to use Facebook, Twitter more in fight against Google

Microsoft already uses data from Facebook and Twitter in Bing. While the search giant is pushing Google+, however, the software giant says it is just getting started with Facebook and Twitter.

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Related Topix: Social Software, Startups, Facebook, Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Microsoft, Internet, Science / Technology

Sympatico Finance

Waterloo stands by RIM despite turmoil

WATERLOO, Ont. - The markets may be hitting Research in Motion hard after its most recent restructuring, but the community considered synonymous with the BlackBerry isn't letting bad news get it down.

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Related Topix: Research in Motion, Telecom, Computers, iPhone, Startups, Emerging Technology, Search Engines

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