Google, being the type of business that it is, understandably gets a number of requests for removal of content as well as user data. In the interest of transparency, according to the...

Read More: Brazil leads Google removal requests, US dominates user data inquiries

Late last week I received an invitation to try out Google Analytics' new Real Time Stats feature, which was announced a couple of weeks ago. I'm not sure when it will be available to everyone, so thought I'd give a quick preview of it. While it is very simple I can see this being very [...]

Read More: Google Analytics Real Time Stats Preview

Karen Wickre, the Senior Media Liaison at Google for the last nine years has left Google and joined Twitter. Wickre held a very senior PR position at Google for a...

Read More: Senior Media Liaison Karen Wickre leaves Google for Twitter

General elections began this morning in Argentina when 28 million registered voters were able to elect a new President and Vice-President, 24 senators, 130 deputies to the lower house of Parliament...

Read More: Argentina’s General Election: Also On Google

Google has launched its Person Finder service in Turkey following yesterday's 7.2 magnitude earthquake which has killed at least 217 people and injured a further 350. First launched to assist...

Read More: Following major earthquake, Google launches Person Finder app for Turkey

With its SVP of Mobile Andy Rubin already declaring that Google would look to release its new Music Store "soon" and launching "with a twist", new details have emerged suggesting...

Read More: Google’s new Music Store reportedly to feature tight integration with Google+

Following recent reports that Microsoft was interested in a bid, troubled Yahoo could have another potential buyer in the form of Google. The Wall Street Journal reports today that Google...

Read More: Google reportedly considering bid to acquire Yahoo

Is this a contrarian view? I can't even tell any more. On one hand, Google Plus now has 40 million users, it's the fastest-growing social-networking site in history, and its users have uploaded 3.4 billion photos. On the other, Google is mum about how many of those users are actually active; some say that its traffic has declined significantly from its peak; Google's own management didn't much use it, until recently; and many agreed with Google engineer Steve Yegge's lengthy and viral rant about [...]

Read More: I Believe In Google Plus

Korean prosecutors investigating Google's use of Street View technology in the country believe they have identified the developer behind what it believes is a privacy-infringing feature, serving a notice and...

Read More: Korean prosecutors target Google Street View developer in privacy probe

One of the most interesting decisions Google took when it launched its cloud-focused Chromebooks was to offer them to businesses and education on a 3-year monthly payment subscription basis with...

Read More: Google drops Chromebook business, education subscription-only policy, lets them pay up front

Having announced that movie rentals would be coming to the Android Market at its I/O conference and launching in the U.S, Google has rolled out its movie service for Android...

Read More: Google’s Android movie rentals launch in the UK with a catalog of over 1,000 titles

Each quarter, Facebook and Google continue to spend more and more on lobbying efforts in Washington D.C. As evidenced by the most recent disclosure reports filed in the U.S. Senate’s lobbying database, both of the companies hit all time highs in terms of lobbying dollars.

Google’s lobbying spend hit an all-time high again this quarter, with spending coming in at $2.38 million, nearly doubling its spend from the same period a year ago. Last quarter, Google spent $2.08 million on lawmakers. The [...]

Read More: Facebook And Google Spent Record Amounts On D.C. Lobbying In Q3 2011

The recent beta release of Facebook Timeline for personal profiles has the Internet buzzing with wonder at the thought of new branding possibilities. Zeny Huang of JWT New York writes in Why Facebook Timeline Will Be Huge for Brands. "The “Cover,” an 849 by 312 pixel image spanning the top of your profile, can be changed at any time [...]

Read More: Facebook and Google to Launch Atomic Battle For The Stream

In September, Google's smartphone and tablet application store, the Android Market, surpassed 500,000 total published applications, according to a new report from research firm Research2guidance. With Apple's App Store seeing...

Read More: Google’s Android Market surpasses 500,000 successful submissions

Well, developers, it looks like Google will soon be releasing the code for Ice Cream Sandwich to the Android Open-Source Project. Thanks to a Google+ post penned by Jean-Baptiste Queru, the Technical Lead of the Android Open Source Project, and his link to an email written by Google engineer Dan Morrill, we do indeed have confirmation that Android 4.0 source code will see the light of day.

"We plan to release the source for the recently-announced Ice Cream Sandwich soon, once it’s available on [...]

Read More: Google Soon To Release Source Code For Ice Cream Sandwich

Google's Vice President of Product Brad Horowitz is on stage at AllThingD's AsiaD Conference this morning in Hong Kong, providing insight into the search giant's new social network Google+ and the...

Read More: Brad Horowitz on Google+: We’ve shipped the ‘Plus’ but not the Google

Google announced some upcoming upgrades to its Google Reader product today on its blog, here are some details: In the next week, we’ll be making some highly requested changes to...

Read More: Google to overhaul Reader with new Google+ features

According to Google Operating System, Gmail, Google's popular email system, is rolling out a facelift for the service. Google took many years to lift the "beta" tag from Gmail, and...

Read More: Google to rollout a major facelift for Gmail

If you were wondering if Google's Ice Cream Sandwich Android platform was to suffer the same fate of its Honeycomb predecessor, you can breathe a sigh of relief after Google...

Read More: Google confirms Ice Cream Sandwich will be open source, released publicly

When Google unveiled its latest mobile developments at the launch event for the Galaxy Nexus and Android 4.0 (codenamed Ice Cream Sandwich), fans of Google's open-source mobile operating system were...

Read More: Can Android’s new ‘Face Unlock’ feature be hacked using a photo? Google says no.