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Google is preparing to launch a long-rumored cloud storage service that tramples a bit on products and services offered by Google partners. A Wall Street Journal report citing “people familiar with the matter” says the new “Drive” service will be launched by Google in the coming weeks or months. What does that mean for other companies that Google works closely with?

An update to the Google Earth ocean-floor-mapping algorithm eliminates what some suspected might be the mythical Atlantis

LinkedIn reported a 30% increase in fourth-quarter profits, but the social network site's success and small size make it an attractive takeover candidate.

Google is planning to enter the home entertainment market with a Google-branded wireless device that streams music within a house, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Confusing censorship of digital content with import of fake pharmaceuticals? Saying site owners wouldn't be responsible for policing copyrights even though they could lose their sites because of it? RIAA's CEO twists reality in sour-grapes parting shot at lost SOPA/PIPA fight.

With the arrival of Chrome Beta for Android, the convergence of Google's desktop and mobile browsers has begun.

The lost city of Atlantis just can't catch a break. First, as legend describes, it sinks to the bottom of ocean some 10,000 years ago. Now Google is making it disappear.

For a while now I've been using Google Music as a kind of cloud-based backup for my music library. Except that it wasn't really a backup, because I couldn't easily retrieve all the songs I'd uploaded. In the event of a system failure, I'd have to download tunes in batches of 100. Bleh.

Given the influence Google has in ecommerce, shouldn't we be a bit careful on how they can also affect free and open source software?

In a letter sent to eight members of Congress, Google yesterday defended its move to consolidate its privacy policies and users' personal information.

The Chromebook looks right now to the average laptop buyer like an all-electric car looks to the average car buyer: full of what-if questions and untested theories of living

Apple, Google and five other tech companies must face a class-action suit filed on behalf of employees who claim the firms illegally agreed not to recruit each other's employees.