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Google confirmed that an executive behind leading mobile device software Android is leaving the company to create an incubator for hardware startups.

Google is exploring a way to search inside people's bodies for early signs of deadly illnesses such as cancer or heart disease.

Google announced a partnership with artificial intelligence teams at Oxford University to teach machines to think like people.

The rise of smartphone use to access the Internet, and slowing clicks on ads, cut into profits by Google in the third quarter, the company has revealed.

Google said its profit in the past quarter dipped slightly from a year earlier, even as revenues for the technology giant showed a sharp increase.

For years, Google has been the undisputed leader in online advertising, but Facebook is gaining quickly in the fast-evolving market.

Google boss Eric Schmidt said his company's biggest competition as a search engine came from e-commerce giant Amazon, not from its traditional rivals.

Google's Eric Schmidt said on Wednesday US online spying is a threat so dire it could wind up "breaking the Internet."

Amidst sanctions standoff between the West and Russia, Kazakhstan is concerned with the lack of its own payment system. Experts comment on possibilities and limitations in introducing such a system.

Google employees are hoping an innovative new phone application will trigger a renaissance in an increasingly unfashionable method of human communication: talking.

Hollywood celebrities whose naked pictures were hacked and posted online have threatened to sue Google for failing to crack down on the leaks.

Google fired back at media mogul Rupert Murdoch, disputing a News Corp. complaint in Europe that the Internet titan has veered from the path of doing no evil.

Microsoft put its spin on Google's Chromecast with a device that lets people mirror what's on Windows-powered tablets or smartphones on their television screens.

Google said it would beef up encryption of its mobile operating system, so that it would not hold "keys" to devices even if it is served with a warrant.

Google launched a $105 smartphone in India, taking aim at emerging markets as part of an initiative called Android One.

Google began letting people use its Hangouts message application for mobile devices to make free or low-cost voice calls over the Internet.

Google has agreed to issue at least $19 million in refunds to consumers whose children made app purchases from its Google Play store without parental consen.

Google backed life sciences firm Calico and bio-pharmaceutical titan AbbVie announced an alliance to find ways to battle age-related diseases.

Google said it is working on a super-fast "quantum" computer chip as part a vision to one day have machines think like humans.

Google said it is testing using drones to deliver items bought online, putting its own spin on similar efforts by Internet retail titan Amazon.com.
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