By NICK BILTON | February 21, 2012, 6:15 pm screenshot via GoogleThe Google glasses will use augmented reality software to return real-time information about locations and people. People who constantly reach into a pocket to check a smartphone for bits ...

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/21/google-to-sell-terminator-style-glasses-by-years-end/

By Nancy Gohring, IDG News In a blog post, Dean Hachamovitch, corporate vice president for Internet Explorer, described how Microsoft believes Google is getting around IE privacy policies. IE by default blocks so-called third-party cookies unless a ...

http://www.pcworld.com/article/250327/microsoft_says_google_circumvents_ie_privacy_policies_too.html

By John Ribeiro, IDG News Three lawmakers from the US House of Representatives have asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate whether last week's report of privacy violations of Safari users by Google violated a consent agreement the company ...

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/250301/us_lawmakers_call_on_ftc_to_investigate_google_over_safari_cookies.html

WASHINGTON – Three congressmen on Friday called on the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Google Inc., after The Wall Street Journal reported that the Internet giant was bypassing privacy settings of people who used Apple Inc.'s Web browser on ...

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/02/18/lawmakers-target-google-over-privacy-laws/

By Mike Swift Google (GOOG) faced an avalanche of criticism Friday as regulators, digital rights activists and consumer groups harshly criticized the Internet giant's deliberate decision to override the privacy controls in the Web browsers of Apple ...

http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_19990444

By Peter Burrows Rarely has any company put so much on the line as Google has with its purchase of struggling cell-phone maker Motorola Mobility. When the $12.5 billion deal was announced last August, analysts focused primarily on what Motorola's more ...

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/googles-bid-to-be-everything-to-everyone-02162012.html

Reputation management experts call it “image-jacking” -- and Google says it's out of the company's hands. Rick Santorum was the first to suffer from a “Google-bomb”: the SpreadingSantorum.com website created by sex columnist Dan Savage that offers a ...

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/02/15/google-problem-spreading-from-santorum-to-romney/

We already knew that Rick Santorum had a Google problem, but it turns out he's not the only one. Search “Romney,” and among the top results is a site called spreadingromney.com (Santorum's is spreadingsantorum.com), which gives the following, ...

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/02/the-google-problem-what-people-really-think-of-the-presidential-possibilities/

The European Commission has cleared Google's $12.5 billion cash bid for Motorola Mobility. Now the search giant is waiting on Justice Department approval in the US Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) jumped a crucial regulatory hurdle Feb.

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Mobile-and-Wireless/Google-Motorola-Merger-Gets-Europes-Blessing-641064/

By John P. Mello Jr., PCWorld Feb 12, 2012 8:57 AM Google has suspended prepaid capabilities on credit cards linked to its mobile wallet after a security flaw was exposed. Saturday's move comes following the airing on the Internet of a flaw in the ...

http://www.pcworld.com/article/249836/google_wallet_suspends_prepaid_credit_card_functions.html

SAN FRANCISCO: Google is developing a home entertainment device, according to people with knowledge of the company's plans, in a move that would bring it more broadly into consumer electronics. The device, which exists as a prototype and will ...

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/google-plans-entertainment-device-20120210-1si8w.html

By Daniel Ionescu, PCWorld Feb 10, 2012 8:26 AM The rumored home entertainment device from Google sounds like an Apple TV without video capabilities, although it may grow on us. The entertainment device will be designed first for streaming music via ...

http://www.pcworld.com/article/249708/google_is_building_entertainment_device_reports_say.html

Google said it will acknowledge and support Motorola's patent licensing under FRAND practices. That includes the Android OEM's practices for licensing patents at a cost of 2.25 percent of the net selling price for each device.

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Mobile-and-Wireless/Google-Will-Honor-Motorolas-225-Perunit-Royalty-Rate-325732/

By THOMAS CATAN And IAN SHERR WASHINGTON—The US Justice Department is poised to clear Google Inc.'s $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. as early as next week, according to people familiar with the matter, giving Google a ...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203315804577211603523857404.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

By Gregg Keizer Computerworld - Google's launch today of Chrome for Android may be a move to accelerate the pace of browser updates, an analyst said. "Google's playing catch-up here," said Al Hilwa of IDC. "Although both the stock Android and Chrome ...

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9224057/Google_accelerates_Android_browser_updates_with_mobile_Chrome

Experts are warning parents about their kids doing a define Google search, given a quirk in the search engine giant's algorithm that has been exploited to return dirty words -- a problem Google says it's working to correct. The search string define: is ...

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/02/06/define-this-google-exposes-dirty-words/

Google's new privacy policies have caused some uproar among its users, including several Democrats and Republicans in Congress. But as far as Ohio State students are concerned, there isn't much to worry about. The Internet giant announced Jan.

http://www.thelantern.com/campus/google-policy-changes-spark-strong-reaction-1.2765818

By AL LEWIS I will not make the same mistake I made in 2004 when I panned the initial public stock offering of Google. "A bet on Google is a bet on a company that makes 95% of its revenues on Internet advertising," I wrote, before I came to work for ...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203889904577199481841403756.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

Pressure is building on Google. On Friday, the European Union asked Google to the delay the rollout of its new privacy policy, scheduled for March 1, until the EU can work out whether it is in line with Europe's data protection laws.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/02/03/lawmakers-press-google-on-new-privacy-policy/

By Byron Acohido, USA TODAY Google executives faced tough questions Thursday, in a meeting with members of Congress, about changes to the company's privacy policy scheduled to go into effect March 1. A pedestrian walks by a sign at Google headquarters ...

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/story/2012-02-02/google-privacy-hearing/52939786/1

Over the past few weeks, there's been quite an uproar over Google and changes to its search services and the privacy policies that govern how and where the company can use your data. I wrote about some of those changes last week.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/googles-new-search-services-and-privacy-policy-have-some-calling-for-a-boycott/2012/02/01/gIQAFt89iQ_story.html

By AMIR EFRATI Changes that Google Inc. made to its privacy policy last week bring it more in line with rivals Yahoo Inc., Microsoft Inc. and Apple Inc., the company said Tuesday in response to questions from members of Congress.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204740904577195083676240406.html

President Barack Obama on Monday made his first foray into Google Plus, trying to stay on message during the social media session as he faced an unexpected twist from a woman with an out-of-work engineer husband. Obama began answering a jobs question ...

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0112/72185.html

On Monday, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo!, and eleven others outfits announced they had formed a new alliance to combat phishing — a way of fooling email and web users into providing sensitive information, including credit card numbers.

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/01/google-phight-phishing/

But this week, a federal judge ordered Google, Apple and five other high-tech companies to court over accusations they violated antitrust laws by conspiring not to poach each other's employees. CBS News correspondent Lee Cowan looks at this development ...

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-57367937-92/apple-google-under-scrutiny-over-no-poaching-charges/