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Will Google's Wave Replace E-Mail—and Facebook? October 04, 2009

Google has big plans for Google Wave, its new online communication service—and they won't all come from Google. The Web search giant is hoping that software ...

Google's SketchUp Helps Design Go Green October 01, 2008

Back in 2006, when Google acquired startup @Last and its 3D modeling product, SketchUp, most observers saw it as a nice add-on for Google Earth, perfect for hobbyists ...

Google Loses Its China Boss September 04, 2009

Kai-Fu Lee, the president of Google Greater China, is leaving the company, Google (GOOG) announced on Sept. 4 in a statement. Lee, who was at the center of a bitter ...

Can Anything Derail Google's Growth Engine? October 27, 2008

You probably won't get rich betting against Google (GOOG). Every quarter, cynics predict a stumble. Most of the time, they're wrong. Even when Google misses analysts' ...

Targets for Google's Merger Machine October 29, 2009

When entrepreneur Mike Cassidy wanted a meeting with Google's top brass recently, he knew who to call. Cassidy was advising a startup that was in talks to be sold to ...

Google Closes In on DoubleClick Deal December 20, 2007

Score one for Google. The Federal Trade Commission ruled Dec. 20 that it would not block Google's (GOOG) proposed $3.1 billion acquisition of leading online ad-serving...

Google's OS: Will PC Makers Bite? July 08, 2009

Google came to master Web search and online advertising largely on its own. But now that it plans to create an operating system to compete with Microsoft's widely used...

What's Holding Back Google Apps? May 14, 2009

When Google (GOOG) announced a foray into business software two years ago, it touted General Electric (GE) as one of its trophy accounts. GE had begun using ...

Google or Yahoo for Advertising? November 06, 2006

Google vs. Yahoo for Small-Business Advertisers: A Customer of Both Says It's No Contest Google (GOOG) wins hands down, says Fred Thacher, president of uSalus, a ...

Mozilla Contemplates a Future Without Google March 12, 2009

From the head offices for Mozilla in Mountain View, Calif., executives can see Google (GOOG) in several directions. The search giant's sprawling Googleplex buildings ...

Google + Rise to Power + Audacious September 25, 2008

Planet Google:One Company's Audacious Planto Organize Everything We KnowBy Randall StrossFree Press; 275 pp.; $26 The challenge facing anyone who writes about Google ...

Google's Battle in Business Software July 16, 2009

With Google's (GOOG) announcement that it's creating an operating system to compete with Microsoft's (MSFT) Windows, the search giant and CEO Eric E. Schmidt look ...

Google: Rational Exuberance? October 11, 2007

This is no time for Google's shares to be reaching all-time highs. It's not that the company's performance doesn't warrant a lofty stock price. Fresh statistics from ...

Move Over, Amazon? Google Aims to Sell e-Books June 01, 2009

Amazon may want to keep an eye over its shoulder—Google is readying a deeper push into e-commerce. In the coming months, Google (GOOG) plans to begin selling ...

Google Voice: Trouble Calling for Skype? July 19, 2009

Google's push into the Web phone-calling market is likely to cut into sales by Internet phone companies such as eBay's (EBAY) Skype unit, and could put pressure on ...