Eric Schmidt

It's a general understanding that viral videos should be three minutes or less, but in this case we'd forgive you for watching a 56-minute video.

Google reported first-quarter results after Thursday's market close that showed a 27 percent increase in revenue over the year-ago quarter and a 17 percent increase in net income.

Should a guy who revels over his company getting "right up to the creepy line" regarding user privacy be on the short list for a powerful government job in Washington, D.C.?

Someone is on to the liberal conspiracy between the Obama Administration and search giant Google, and that someone is Fox Network star and American hero Glenn Beck.

Shares of online search giant Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) rose in early trading Friday as Wall Street continued to digest the company's blowout fourth-quarter results and totally unexpected top-management change. By mid-morning, shares were up 7.62 to 634.39, or 1.2 percent above Thursday's market close of 626.77.

Online search giant Google has dismissed the employee who leaked the internal memo announcing that the company was giving its more than 23,000 employees 10 percent raises starting Jan. 1 and $1,000 cash bonuses for the upcoming holiday season (and even paying the taxes on the bonus).

Google's YouTube announced Thursday that it now has served 500 million views of its paid Promoted Videos, a service it launched less than two years ago.

As a followup to Google's announcement of their Venture Capital department last week, Google CEO Eric Schmidt announced today the acquisition by Google of Microsoft in a stock swap of 10 percent of Google stock for all of Microsoft. In a separate release, Google detailed their purchase of General Motors.