Google has just upgraded their browser-based news service so Android and iPhone devices can serve up items based on where you are. All you have to do is authorize Google News to use your location when you visit the site on your phone, and it will automatically pull up local news in a new section called...

Google infringes the copyrights of Belgian newspapers by placing links to and portions of their articles on Google News, the Belgian Court of Appeals has ruled. As a result, Google is required to remove all articles and photos from all Belgian newspapers in French and German. Google faces a daily fine of...

A series of internal e-mails from last year highlights how important location data is to Google, and likely gives more ammunition to privacy advocates over how these companies track your every move. The e-mails were written by then-CEO Larry Page following a move by Motorola to replace Google’s...

Us journalists and bloggers like to make a lot of the battle between Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS, but it the search engine has a vested interest in seeing the platform succeed. Why? iPhones and iPads are simply sending the site a ton of traffic. Says Asia-Pacific president Daniel Alegre to...

Google on Monday denied an allegation by rival Microsoft that it lied about an important government certification. But an analyst with experience in dealing with the federal government, and its contract and bid practices, said Microsoft got it right. “Microsoft’s argument is certainly...