It may just be coincidence but Rupert Murdoch's London papers appear to be being very conciliatory towards people and organisations with whom the media mogul has previously clashed... more
British price comparison website Foundem accuses Google chairman Eric Schmidt of "misleading" testimony to America's senate about his internet search giant's dominance... more
Google is leaving open the door to more co-operation with social-media giants Facebook and Twitter, and believes there is room for multiple social networks as it rolls out its own, executive chairman Eric Schmidt has said... more
Google's chairman Eric Schmidt astonishingly declares he "screwed up" by missing the social networking boom. He also revealed he had tried and failed to secure a tie-up with Facebook... more
Google's London subsidiary generated almost $1 billion in revenues in the first three months
of the year as it continues to grow at double-digit pace - up 15% on a year earlier... more
"We are not the publisher! We are not the publisher!" The Google executive was getting ever more defensive in his attempt to argue that the internet giant isn't a tax-avoiding parasite with a business model built on taking credit where it isn't due and avoiding blame where it is... more
While Alan Johnson wanted the 50% top rate of tax to be regarded as temporary, his successor as shadow chancellor Ed Balls favours keeping it and seeing it kick in at a lower threshold than the present £150,000... more
Downing Street is extremely proud of its new Business Advisory Group. I don’t want to be a dreadful sceptic but I can’t help it: I feel the need to emit a large yawn... more
David Cameron chairs the first meeting of his new, 16-strong, business advisory group, with many observers noting no bankers were present apart from HSBC’s outgoing chairman Stephen Green... more
All young people will eventually be allowed to automatically change their name on reaching adulthood to escape their online past, Google boss Eric Schmidt predicts... more
Google sets out its challenge to Apple’s iPhone in the smartphones market by saying 200,000 devices based on its Android operating system are sold every day... more
Much soul-searching here this week after a 17-year-old student at Palo Alto’s Gunn High School was killed by a commuter train. All the evidence points to suicide and many are asking how much the Valley’s intensely competitive culture was to blame ... more
It's awards season, of course, but here that doesn’t just mean the Golden Globes or the upcoming Oscars. The Valley cares as much, if not more, about the Crunchies... more
Technology: Online search giant Google will make fewer acquisitions and take on fewer staff amid the global economic turmoil, chief executive Eric Schmidt said.... more
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