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While a U.S. settlement looks likely to be reached, it may rouse critics at home and abroad.

Google just announced dramatically reduced prices for their online storage options via a post on the company's Official Google Blog.

Deck the halls with free wiFi! Google's spreading holiday cheer this year is by equipping 47 airports across the U.S. with free wireless Internet, they announced today.

We're already clapping our hands like children on Christmas day over the free service. But it also comes with a pretty awesome way to give back. If you're stuck on an endless layover and feeling thankful for Google's generosity, the company encourages you to spread that warm fuzzy feeling:

Whenever Rupert Murdoch goes back to his home country of Australia, he loosens up and says things to the press (usually his own outlets) that he might not say in the U.S. Of course, everyone in the U.S. picks up on it and it becomes a big story, as it did today after Murdoch told his own Sky News that he might start blocking Google and other search engines from giving searchers full access to articles on the Wall Street Journal's website, WSJ.com.

Last month Skype was in talks to acquire VoIP startup Gizmo5. It was a perfect backup plan in case all that IP litigation didn't work out.

Google on Monday announced that it has acquired mobile display advertising firm AdMob for an undisclosed amount. "Despite the tremendous growth in mobile usage and the substantial investment by many businesses in the space ...

The MySpace social media network’s traffic has dropped so much that it will fail to satisfy a minimum traffic level crucial to parent company News Corp’s three-year $900 million advertising deal with Google, inked in 2006, that made Google the exclusive search advertiser on MySpace — then the world’s most popular social network.

No "Google Number" needed! A lighter version of Google Voice now exists for people who are willing to trade some features for the ability to use their existing numbers.

According to reports Google is about to get into the online music business with the launch of "Google Audio."

What do you get when you add another wheel to a bicycle and slap an omnidirectional camera on top? A Street View Trike, that’s what.