Google in talks to lay undersea cable: report
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Google Inc  is in early talks  to join a group looking to lay a high-speed, trans- Pacific  undersea cable that could potentially lead to the Internet  company becoming an investor in the project, according to the  Wall Street Journal.
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US search-engine giant Google is interested in setting up a base in Malaysia, Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said, according to reports Sunday.
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Internet search leader Google Inc. is in talks to acquire the popular online video site YouTube Inc. for about $1.6 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday, citing a person familiar with the matter.
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Web search company Google Inc. is  considering building a data center in Lithuania, business daily  Verslo zinios reported on Monday.
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SAN FRANCISCO - In another twist to Google Inc.'s public stock offering, the Internet search company said federal regulators have opened an informal inquiry into its failure to register millions of shares.    In a regulatory filing Monday, Google said it "understands" the inquiry was opened by the Securities and Exchange Commission...
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SAN FRANCISCO - Google looks set to start trading on the Nasdaq today after the web&#39;s No 1 search engine asked regulators for final approval to price its closely watched initial public offering.
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The Internet juggernaut Google has held talks with Orange, the telecommunications operator, about a multi-billion dollar tie-up for mobile telephone users to search the web, a news report said.
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Google considers a bid in the forthcoming wireless spectrum auction in the US, if certain conditions change.
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Asian countries are reeling from cuts in underwater internet fiber optic cables that have left millions in the e-dark. While the internet feels crucial, one internet analyst says such outages are the cost of cheap internet access fees.
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(InfoWorld) - Google took another step in its continued attempts to improve its relationships with wire services Friday when it announced a program to host full articles from news agencies on Google News pages. Google News, a site in which Google aggregates links to articles published on news outlets' Web sites, is generally valued by publishers who make money from online advertising and as such benefit from the traffic Google News sends to their sites. But Google News has been a tougher sell for wire services, which generally make money by licensing their content to newspapers and magazines and not by attracting readers to their own Web sites. Agence France Presse , one of the world's largest wire services, sued GoogleÂ for alleged copyright infringement on the News site. Although never publicly acknowledged, it's widely believed that the Associated Press threatened to file a similar lawsuit. Although Google maintains that running hyperlinked headlines, text snippets, and thumbnail images from news outlets in Google News is protected by the fair use principle,Â it eventually settled with AFPÂ and signed a licensing agreement with it, as well as with AP. Friday's announcement appears to be the first concrete result of those licensing agreements, although the AP deal is now more than a year old. The AFP settlement and agreement were announced in April. Now, if they want, people will be able to read the original articles from AP, AFP, the U.K. Press Association, and the Canadian Press in Google News pages. Google also entered into licensing agreements with the U.K. and Canadian wire services. Previously, because wire services' Web sites typically feature either a small sample or none of their stories, the way to read their articles was go to the sites of their syndication clients, such as newspapers. The new feature unveiled Friday is called "duplicate detection," which lets Google News identify the original source of a story that may appear in tens or hundreds of news outlet Web sites. If the source story is from one of the four news service agencies that Google has licensing agreements with, Google will display the story on a page that it hosts. But the feature will benefit all types of news outlets, not just wire services. For example, if a New York Times story gets syndicated, Google News will know that it originally came from that newspaper. For such outlets that have their own public Web sites, "duplicate detection" will simply let users click over to their sites, which is the traditional Google News model. Removing duplicated articles opens up more room on Google News, leading to a better user experience, said Josh Cohen, Google News business product manager. "Our goal with what we're launching today is to provide the best experience for our users and help our partners get credit for their content," he said. Asked whether the hosting of full articles on Google News will weaken the fair-use protection claim, Cohen said that it will not. "We respect copyright laws. When we go beyond fair use, we enter into licensing agreements," he said. The "duplicate detection" feature is already operational on the site, he said.
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British satellite broadcaster BSkyB Plc  said on Wednesday it would tie up with Google Inc  to deploy the Internet search giant's suite of search, advertising and video functionality on its broadband service.
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Web search leader Google Inc is expected to announce advanced software and services enabling handset makers to bring Google-powered phones to market by mid-2008, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter.
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Verizon Communications Inc. and five Asian partners plan to build an underwater optical cable between the United States and China to meet rising demand for high-speed Internet access.
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Google is reportedly interested in purchasing or building a new trans-Pacific fiber-optic cable. Its interest reflects a resurgence of infrastructure-building activity this year.
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Google Inc , the world's  largest Internet company, will propose at a meeting of  international policymakers in France on Friday that national  regulators agree on a basic set of global privacy protections.
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Google Inc, the world&#39;s largest  Internet company, will propose at a meeting of international  policymakers in France on Friday that national regulators agree  on a basic set of global privacy protections.
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Google's searching for a solution to our fuel woes.