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Today: Netflix makes yet another groundbreaking deal, lining up original children's programming from DreamWorks; stock hits highest level in nearly two years.

Google Inc has been about an open and transparent Internet so that billions of people on the planet can intercommunicate with each other and share information and experiences without borders.

Steve Lee understands the hesitation some folks have about Google Glass. When he saw an early version of the concept, a pair of augmented-reality glasses that users could wear to enhance their everyday lives, he thought it was crazy.

The online search engine leader had planned to issue Class C shares as a dividend to investors.

Edward Snowden, the former security contractor who leaked details of the National Security Agency's Prism program, said in an online chat Monday that Silicon Valley tech companies' denials of providing access to government officials "were misleading."

Feedly said Monday that it has started migrating its users to its own back-end RSS infrastructure two weeks before Google is to pull the plug on its Reader service.

More than 30 computer scientists signed off on a court brief opposing Oracle's effort to copyright its Java APIs, a move they say would hold back the computer industry and make technology more expensive.

Infrastructure nerds, it's time to meet the accountants. At this year's Structure conference this Wednesday and Thursday we're focusing on the economics of cloud computing, not just for vendors, but for practitioners.

So, it's another episode in the endless soap of the Public Accounts Committee's pursuit of what it sees as corporate tax dodgers and, last week, of Google in particular.

It's nice to see the 21st century being dragged into the 21st century. On the heels of Cheerios' decision to use an interracial family in an adorable television commercial , a decision that was a shock to the system for racists everywhere, Google has, for the first time, used an image of a black dad in it's Father's Day "doodle."

It's always interesting to fuse beauty and brute characteristics, especially when lent to a powerful mobile device like the upcoming Google opus Nexus 5. The rollouts are separate but observers cannot help but to tie the two gadgets together.

The Internet has plenty of dark corners, but one of the darkest is surely the growing number of sites that traffic in child pornography.

DuckDuckGo, the search engine that doesn't track users, has broken traffic records this week with almost 2.5 million searches on Thursday alone.

A New Zealand computer scientist says we should be worried about the size and role of Google on the internet.

Google plans to corner the wind energy market in New Jersey. It's a first-of-its kind venture that could cost Google and its partners $1.3 billion, but one Google believes fits its core mission: You can make money without doing evil.

In this undated photo made available by Google, Denise Harwood diagnoses an overheated computer processor at Google’s data center in The Dalles, Ore.

Google Inc has launched a small network of balloons over the Southern Hemisphere in an experiment it hopes could bring reliable Internet access to the world's most remote regions, the company said late Friday.

Google's Project Loon culminated in the company launching jellyfish shaped balloons from New Zealand's South Island near Lake Tekapo.

Google's Street View image collection is growing again, with the addition of photos from another 1,000 locations around the world.

Dozens of hand-picked technologists and policy leaders tackled the digital divide at 30,000 feet during this week's inaugural "Ungrounded" flight from San Francisco to London.