Google Execs Convicted By Italian Court In Shock Ruling

Ireland needs all the cash it can get. After the results of a so-called stress-test due at 15:30 GMT today, the country's tax payers will find out how many more billions are needed to bail out the company's beleaguered banks. And...

Online advertising giant Google expanded its leadership in the worldwide search advertising market during 2010, according to new research from IHS Screen Digest. If it wasn't for the likes of Facebook, the firm would have the...

The Internet has changed the information landscape and, increasingly, individual users are finding there's no place to hide on the web - or on the street, come to that, as Google's Street View cars may come and sniff you out...

Europe's top court, the Court of Justice of the European Union, will next week rule on whether or not Google can use trade marks to trigger ads when brands battle to reach online consumers. The ruling is due on Tuesday and will...

Three companies have lodged formal claims with the European Commission that Google is acting anti-competitively. Two of the complaints relate to the way that it ranks web pages. The Commission has asked Google to explain its...

The European Commission has dropped its competition law case against Microsoft over its browser software and accepted the company's solution of offering Microsoft Windows users a screen through which they can choose non-Microsoft...

A widely-requested European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruling on keyword advertising may fail to give businesses in the UK and Ireland the legal clarity it would give to the rest of Europe, a High Court judge has warned.Mr Justice...

Microsoft Corp. has been accused by European Union for adversely affecting market competition by incorporating its Internet Explorer web browser with its flagship Windows operating systems only.  In its fresh set of...

Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin were involved in the decision, according to a Google executive. Protesters had said that the link was a legal requirement, but Google had said that it was not prepared to add more words...

Street View allows users of Google's maps to view 360 degree photographs of streetscapes in towns and cities that have been catalogued by Google cameras. The company's distinctive cars with cameras attached were spotted on the...

A small black Opel car with a high roof-mounted camera and a Google logo was spotted by one Flickr user and by Channel 4 News, indicating that Google is gathering data for a London Steet View service.Google confirmed today that...

The deal only applies to the US and Canada at the moment and US authorities have said they will investigate it, but it is likely that European authorities would also examine the deal if it were extended to the EU.The agreement...

But experts say that brand holders might try to fight the policy in court. Google has announced the lifting of a ban on one company buying the right to use another's trade mark to trigger its own advert. The move brings the...

The internet's major search engines are following Google's lead in limiting their collection of information about web users and their searches. Microsoft, Yahoo! and Ask.com are taking action after controversial policy changes by...

European privacy regulators will expand their investigation into Google's privacy practices to all search engine companies, it has said. The Article 29 Working Party, a committee of Europe's data protection watchdogs, has been...