Authorities in China have approved Google's bid to buy the phone maker Motorola Mobility, clearing the way for the $12.5 billion deal to close this week. But Chinese regulators attached a big condition: that Google's Android operating system for mobile ...

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/21/business/global/china-clears-google-purchase-of-motorola.html

NEW YORK (AP) – Authorities in China have approved Google Inc.'s bid to buy phone maker Motorola Mobility, clearing the way for the $12.5 billion deal to close early next week. By Virginia Mayo, AP Google's Android software powers more than 250 million ...

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/story/2012-05-19/google-to-buy-motorola/55082932/1

Google — faced with ever-increasing governmental scrutiny of its business and privacy practices — handed out more money last month than any other since it formed six years ago. In April alone, Google's political action committee, NetPAC, spread ...

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0512/76502.html

Google's Knowledge Graph seems like just another search feature, but connect the dots and it could become the brains behind a Siri-like virtual assistant. By Jared Newman, PCWorld On the surface, Google's Knowledge Graph seems like just another search ...

http://www.pcworld.com/article/255749/google_knowledge_graph_the_birth_of_a_siri_rival.html

By Matt Hamblen Computerworld - Google is reportedly moving to more direct sales of its Android smartphones and tablets in an apparent move to wrest control away from wireless carriers that install their own services on Android gear or block Google ...

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9227214/Google_to_sell_Nexus_smartphones_tablets_direct_report_says

By AMIR EFRATI Google Inc. is shifting its strategy for its Android mobile operating system, in a bid to create a united front with smartphone and tablet makers to take on rivals like Apple Inc. and prevent wireless carriers from controlling the ...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304371504577406511931421118.html

Internet giant Google and other investors have pledged up to $5 billion for a network of transmission lines for offshore wind farms to be built over the next decade or more. The Interior Department said Monday that no competitor had proposed a similar ...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/offshore-wind-transmission-line-from-new-jersey-to-virginia-moves-forward/2012/05/14/gIQAWD7CPU_story.html

By David Murphy If you haven't yet called your parents for Mother's Day – and we apologize in advance if that's not an option for your particular situation – Google's doing its part to tug on your heartstrings should you try to search for things on the ...

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2404365,00.asp

The animated Google doodle opens with a mother figure in focus. Two kids pop into focus from behind a door and proceed to give their mother a tight hug. The characters then line up to form letters in the Google logo.

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WASHINGTON (AP) – A federal appeals court has turned down a Freedom of Information Act request to disclose National Security Agency records about the 2010 cyberattack on Google users in China. By Virginia Mayo, AP The NSA has refused to confirm or deny ...

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/story/2012-05-11/court-google-nsa-spy-china/54912902/1

SAN FRANCISCO – Microsoft's Bing search engine is heading in a new direction as it drills deeper into Facebook's social network and Twitter's messaging service to showcase information unlikely to be found on Google. The changes, unveiled Thursday, ...

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/05/10/bing-to-duel-google-with-facebook-friendly-format/

Google's legal team on Monday indicated it would seek a new trial when the jury returned an incomplete verdict. The jury found that Google had infringed on some of Oracle's copyrighted Java APIs, though not to the extent that Oracle had hoped.

http://www.informationweek.com/news/development/java/240000070

By Ian Paul, PCWorld May 8, 2012 6:16 AM Google's autonomous vehicle cruises the Las Vegas Strip. (Image courtesy of the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles)Google's self-driving car is growing up right in front of our eyes: The fledgling autonomous ...

http://www.pcworld.com/article/255204/googles_selfdriving_car_licensed_to_hit_nevada_streets.html

Nevada has granted Google what is believed to be the first US license to test driverless cars, Fox 5 reports. The Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles announced Monday it has approved Google's application to test the autonomous vehicles on public ...

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/05/08/nevada-issues-google-first-us-license-to-test-driverless-cars/

By Victoria Slind-Flor on May 07, 2012 Jurors deciding whether Google Inc. (GOOG) (GOOG) stole Oracle Inc.'s technology were deadlocked on May 4 on one of three questions about whether the search engine provider infringed copyrights to build Android ...

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-05-07/oracle-pirate-bay-levi-strauss-gap-intellectual-property

Oracle accuses Google of infringing its Java patents and copyrights in Google's Android OS. Google denies any wrongdoing, saying it developed a clean-room version of Java and built Android without using Oracle's protected code.

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/255094/oraclegoogle_jury_mulls_verdict_over_android_patent.html

Oracle sued Google last year, alleging that Android infringed Oracle's Java copyrights and patents. The trial began three weeks ago. Oracle initially asked for $1 billion and an injunction to block the shipment of Android devices, but the potential ...

http://www.informationweek.com/news/development/java/232901481

INTERNET Google asks judge to dismiss suit Google asked a judge to dismiss a lawsuit by an organization representing authors over the search-engine company's digital scanning of millions of books, saying the group can't represent the owners of the ...

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The Google Doodle tops the Internet giant's search page, and the company is holding a contest to let kids design their own. The winner will get $30000 toward college – and a lot of eyeballs. By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke, Contributor / May 2, 2012 A screen ...

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Education/2012/0502/Google-Doodle-contest-young-artists-vie-for-site-s-1-billion-viewers

Reports cast doubt on Google's assurances that it did not realize its street-mapping cars were snatching personal data from home Wi-Fi networks and that one lone engineer was to blame. Matt Potter pedals Google's Street View Tricycle in a park near ...

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-google-street-view-20120502,0,7182604.story

At the center of the uproar over a Google project that scooped up personal data from potentially millions of unsuspecting people is the company software engineer who wrote the code. Google has declined to identify the engineer, as has the Federal ...

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/01/technology/engineer-in-googles-street-view-is-identified.html

By Cecilia Kang A Google engineer knowingly created software that would collect sensitive personal information about people without their knowledge, according to an un-redacted version of a federal investigative report. In a full version of a Federal ...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-tech/post/google-engineer-told-officials-street-view-cars-were-collecting-personal-data-fcc-report/2012/04/29/gIQAPLtkpT_blog.html?tid=pm_business_pop

SAN FRANCISCO — Google's harvesting of e-mails, passwords and other sensitive personal information from unsuspecting households in the United States and around the world was neither a mistake nor the work of a rogue engineer, as the company long ...

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/29/technology/google-engineer-told-others-of-data-collection-fcc-report-reveals.html

By JOHN LETZING Google Inc. formally disclosed a pair of inquiries under way in Argentina and South Korea this week, adding to global scrutiny of the Internet company's competitive behavior and personal data collection. Google said in a quarterly ...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304723304577370162531628288.html

Federal regulators escalated their antitrust investigation of Google on Thursday by hiring a prominent litigator, sending a strong signal that they are prepared to take the Internet giant to court. The Federal Trade Commission is examining Google's ...

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/27/technology/google-antitrust-inquiry-advances.html