“Google” on The Daily Caller

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Joining the battle to redefine Internet search, Yahoo is taking aim with a new browser enhancement it calls “Axis.” (more)

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union has given Google “a matter of weeks” to propose remedies to antitrust concerns arising from its alleged dominant position in the online search market. (more)

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. (more)

NEW YORK (AP) — The metaphor is an easy one, overused and perhaps even a bit overwrought. We are forging forward into a digital frontier, leaving convention behind, traveling without guides into an uncharted virtual land where progress and profits are forever around the next bend. (more)

(Reuters) – Google is revamping the way it handles searches in the United States to give users quick access to answers without leaving the page, the company said. (more)

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. (more)

The FBI is quietly working to require Google, Facebook, Twitter and other online giants to make it easier for federal law enforcement to wiretap their websites. And major tech companies have been silent on the issue so far. (more)

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal jury failed to agree on a pivotal issue in Oracle’s copyright-infringement case against Google, blunting the impact of its finding that Google relied on another company’s technology to build its popular Android software for mobile devices. (more)

Economists have had it with the forceful gaze of government regulators directed at Google. (more)

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal jury in San Francisco is expected to deliver at least a partial verdict Monday in a copyright-infringement trial pitting Oracle against Google. (more)

NEW YORK (AP) — Google Inc. urged a judge Thursday to toss The Authors Guild and an organization representing photographers out of 6-year-old litigation over the future of the world’s largest digital library, a move that would force authors and photographers to individually fight the online search engine giant. (more)

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. (more)

SAN FRANCISCO –  Oracle and Google closed their respective cases in the copyright portion of an ongoing legal battle over Google’s Android mobile phone software Monday, leaving a jury to decide on one half of a high-profile trial over the alleged infringement of Oracle’s Java copyrights and patents. (more)

Google Inc. (GOOG) said federal prosecutors closed an investigation last May into the company’s use of custom-equipped autos to collect wireless data in its Street View project. (more)

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 maintained, but a program that supervisors knew about, according to new details from the full text of a regulatory report. (more)

SAN FRANCISCO — Google has released the full report of the Federal Communications Commission’s investigation into the data it collected and stored from millions of unknowing households across the nation while operating specially equipped cars for its Street View service. (more)

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — After being spanked by the Federal Communications Commission, Google is scolding the agency for its handling of a recently concluded investigation into the company’s collection of emails, passwords and other personal information transmitted over wireless networks. (more)

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google CEO Larry Page recently wrote that he hopes to show the company is “deserving of great love.” But the Internet search leader may need to win more trust, based on the suspicions swirling around Google Drive, a new online storage service for personal documents, photos and other content. (more)

The launch of Earth’s first asteroid mining company was formally announced Tuesday. (more)

Taking the stand on Tuesday during the ongoing trial over Google’s use of the Java programming language on its Android mobile operating system, Google executive chairman and former CEO Eric Schmidt strongly defended the company against accusations that it illegally lifted parts of the Java platform from Sun Microsystems. (more)