Juan Carlos Perez

The U.S. government is asking a California court to force Google Inc. to turn over information about usage of the company's search engine for finding pornography on the Internet. The government says it needs those Google usage records to prepare its defense in a lawsuit brought against it by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). But Google is resisting.

Yahoo Inc. lost a legal battle in its fight to make a French court's order against the company unenforceable in the U.S. Yahoo now has the option to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Google Inc. has released a Mac OS version of Google Earth, extending to Apple Computer Inc. users the flashy mapping application that has been wowing Windows PC users since its launch last year, the Mountain View, California, company said Tuesday.

Google Inc. is poised to pay US$1 billion for a 5 per cent stake in Time Warner Inc.'s America Online Inc. unit, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday afternoon on its Web site, moments after also reporting that Google and AOL are in exclusive talks related to an advertising partnership.

America Online Inc. (AOL) has begun testing a new service that lets users access their PC remotely from any computer that has a browser and is connected to the Internet, an AOL spokesman. The new service, called LinktoPC, became available on Friday to AOL subscribers interested in trying it out, he said. "We haven't offered this type of service before," he said.

U.S. residents who prefer Google Inc.'s search engine tend to be richer and have more Internet experience than those who primarily use competing search services from Microsoft Corp., Yahoo Inc. and America Online Inc., a new study has found.

The first thought that comes to mind when one hears the name Google Inc. isn't exactly "enterprise IT vendor." And yet, the company qualifies as such. True, it's a recent and small entrant, but Google seems intent on becoming a powerful player in this space.

Google Inc. has temporarily shut the door of its Google Analytics hosted service to new users because the company has been unable to keep up with demand after it began offering the service for free last week.