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Google chairman Eric Schmidt will visit Myanmar next week, highlighting increasing Internet freedom in the former pariah state just weeks after a controversial trip to communist North Korea.

• 17 марта 2013, 18:40

Google said Wednesday it was tossing its Reader service and seven other products under a house cleaning campaign that has closed 70 of the Internet giant's features in the past two years.

• 14 марта 2013, 13:00

Google has retaken the role of superstar of the tech sector with a stunning stock rally as rival Apple flounders.

• 09 марта 2013, 14:49

Google Play turned a year old on Wednesday and the Android-focused rival to Apple's online iTunes shop celebrated with deals on books, games, music, movies and apps.

• 07 марта 2013, 16:32

Google says the FBI is monitoring the Web for potential terrorist activity. But it can't confirm the extent of the surveillance.

• 07 марта 2013, 13:44

Google unveiled a touchscreen notebook computer Thursday designed for high-end users, throwing down the gauntlet to Apple and its MacBooks.

• 22 февраля 2013, 16:23

Famed founders of Internet rivals Google and Facebook joined forces on Wednesday to back big-money prizes for research aimed at extending human life.

• 21 февраля 2013, 16:06

Internet search king Google's shares pushed past $800 for the first time Tuesday despite a tough new challenge from Microsoft and looming European Union action over alleged privacy violations.

• 20 февраля 2013, 16:35

President Barack Obama said Thursday that Americans needed more than just his word to be assured he was not misusing his powers in waging a secret drone war overseas.

• 15 февраля 2013, 17:22

Google's Chairman Eric Schmidt plans to sell 3.2 million "A" shares, currently worth $2.5 billion, over the next year, Google said Friday in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

• 09 февраля 2013, 11:36

Google began Wednesday letting businesses target mobile ads based on how close smartphone users might be to shops or what they might be craving at certain times of day.

• 07 февраля 2013, 10:22

Ads pegged to Google search results can be racially biased because of how certain names are associated with blacks or whites.

• 05 февраля 2013, 14:23

Google Translate+Kazakh project was presented in Kazakhstan.

• 04 февраля 2013, 14:38

A presentation of Google Translate+Kazakh project to add the Kazakh language to Google Translate was held in Astana.

• 04 февраля 2013, 14:11

The Wall Street Journal reported Friday that in his coming book, Google chairman Eric Schmidt brands China an Internet menace that sanctions cyber crime for economic and political gain.

• 02 февраля 2013, 18:46

YouTube confirmed on Wednesday that its evolution as an Internet stage for video may include subscriptions to content that creators believe people will pay to see.

• 31 января 2013, 18:11

Weeks after its chairman Eric Schmidt's secretive visit to North Korea, Google has rolled out a detailed map of the isolated state that even labels some of its remote and infamous gulags.

• 29 января 2013, 18:28

Google reported Tuesday that its profit climbed and its annual revenue hit an unprecedented high last year as it evolved to stay in tune with people using smartphones and tablets.

• 24 января 2013, 11:56

The teenage daughter of Google chairman Eric Schmidt has shed some light on her father's secretive trip to North Korea, writing a first-hand account of the visit to a "very, very strange" country.

• 22 января 2013, 11:05

Apple chief Tim Cook and Google chairman Eric Schmidt are expected to face questioning in a lawsuit accusing Silicon Valley giants of secretly agreeing not to "poach" one another's workers.

• 19 января 2013, 13:04