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Senate antitrust subcommittee chair to focus on Google
Senator Herb Kohl (D-Wis.), chairman of the anitrust subcommittee, said he will put special focus on Google in the current session, examining its bid to expand through acquisitions and search industry practices.
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Cecilia Kang
| March 10, 2011; 6:34 PM ET |
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Google enables site blocking
In a blog post Thursday, Google announced that it will enable Web-site blocking on its search engine.It works like this. Say you do a Google search for something, click on the top result and then find that it’s not a...
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Hayley Tsukayama
| March 10, 2011; 4:44 PM ET |
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The Circuit: Twitter denies J.P. Morgan reports; Kerry, Snowe introduce spectrum bill; Microsoft mad at Facebook
The Circuit: Twitter denies JPMorgan reports; Kerry, Snowe introduce spectrum bill; Microsoft mad at Facebook
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Hayley Tsukayama
| March 3, 2011; 8:18 AM ET |
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Senate debates patent reform as more voices weigh in
The Senate continued debate Tuesday on The America Invents Act, a patent reform act introduced by Judiciary chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.). The bill, which proposes an overhaul to the way the patent system works, would change to a first...
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Hayley Tsukayama
| March 1, 2011; 5:10 PM ET |
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Google Street View Trikes add more pictures
Google is putting its controversial Street View application into greater focus with the addition of photos of places around the world taken from its fleet of global tricycles. The search giant wrote about the new Trike pictures on its...
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Cecilia Kang
| March 1, 2011; 9:51 AM ET |
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Google has pre-beta in-app payment program
Google is working on a new in-app payment program, now in pre-beta testing for developers. According to TechCrunch, the service will launch in May.
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Hayley Tsukayama
| March 1, 2011; 8:30 AM ET |
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