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Google to bankroll, build wireless networks across Africa
A Google sign is seen at a Best Buy electronics store in Encinitas, California in this April 11, 2013, file photo. — Reuters Photo Google Inc intends to finance, build and help operate wireless networks from sub-Saharan Africa to Southeast...
Google to add Galapagos Islands to Street View
In this May 2013 photo, Christophe Bailhache navigates an SVII camera through a large group of sea lions during a survey dive at Champion Island in Galapagos. Google Maps sent crews armed with backpack-mounted Street View cameras and underwater...
Google, like Facebook, in talks to buy Waze for about $1 billion: report
(Reuters) – Google Inc is considering buying Israeli mobile satellite navigation start-up Waze Inc, which may lead to a bidding war with Facebook Inc, Bloomberg news reported, citing people familiar with the matter. Reuters: Business...
Google faces new federal antitrust probe: source
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. regulators are in the early stages of an antitrust probe into whether Google Inc, which dominates web display advertising, has broken antitrust law in how it handles some ad sales, a source told Reuters on Thursday....
After Google, Amazon to be grilled on UK tax presence
LONDON (Reuters) – Internet retailer Amazon.com Inc. will be called back to the British parliament to clarify how its activities in the UK justify its low corporate income tax bill, two lawmakers told Reuters. Reuters: Business News...
YouTube ban: Google to appear before Lahore High Court
The video-sharing website was blocked by the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) over ‘Innocence of Muslims,’ a blasphemous movie that angered Muslims around the world. – File Photo KARACHI/LAHORE: Legal representatives of Google...
Google says 900 million Android mobile devices activated
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Some 900 million smartphones and tablets running Google Inc’s Android software have been activated since the platform’s inception in 2010, executives said at the company’s annual developers’...
UK lawmakers set date for Google, Ernst & Young tax grilling
LONDON (Reuters) – A panel of UK lawmakers will next week grill representatives from Google Inc and its auditor, Ernst & Young, following a Reuters report that highlighted inconsistencies in Google’s statements about its UK...