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FTC launches investigation of Google Los Angeles Times Google acknowledges that the Federal Trade Commission is looking into its business practices, including search and advertising. Google co-founder Larry Page. Google has acknowledged the FTC is investigating its business practices. ... See all stories on this topic » Los Angeles Times

Google to End Health Records Service After It Fails to Attract Users New York Times By STEVE LOHR Google is giving up on its vision of helping people live healthier lives with online personal health records. When Google Health was introduced in 2008, Marissa Mayer, a Google executive, said it would be a “large ongoing initiative” that ... See all stories on this topic »

Google hides their Gay Pride doodle CBS News (CBS/What's Trending) - Everyone loves a good Google doodle. Whether it is for something major like Christmas or trivial like Pacman's 30th anniversary, the Google doodle has been an everchanging and entertaining aspect to the search engine. ... See all stories on this topic »

Oil Release, Afghan Rollback, Google Probe Wall Street Journal Google Inc. said the Federal Trade Commission formally notified the company that the agency had begun a review of its business. Google said it was unclear what the FTC's concerns were, but that it would be working with the agency in the coming months ... See all stories on this topic »

On Capitol Hill, it's all about beating down Google CNET by Declan McCullagh commentary WASHINGTON--It was inevitable that Google, one of the world's largest technology companies, would find itself in the crosshairs of the Washington antitrust establishment. But what is, or should be, a little surprising is ... See all stories on this topic »

Google driverless cars will soon hit the road in Nevada ZDNet (blog) By Matt Weinberger | June 24, 2011, 12:24pm PDT Nevada has just passed legislation removing many of the legal barriers to the use of Google's self-driving car technology. Christopher Dawson grew up in Seattle, back in the days of pre-antitrust ... See all stories on this topic »

Google's enemy list, a primer CNET by Jay Greene In its rise to Web dominance, Google has displaced plenty of companies, upended several industries, and made a slew of enemies along the way. Some of the adversaries are industry giants in their own right, such as Microsoft and Apple. ... See all stories on this topic » CNET

Cutts Believes Google `Doing the Right Thing' for Users Washington Post June 24 (Bloomberg) -- Matt Cutts, lead software engineer and head of the Web spam team at Google Inc., talks about yesterday's announcement that the Federal Trade Commission has begun a review of Google's business practices. ... See all stories on this topic »

Google Probe Could Be Years-Long Battle TheStreet.com By Scott Moritz 06/24/11 - 03:27 PM EDT NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Google(GOOG) is the Microsoft(MSFT) of our time -- dominant, potentially self-serving and increasingly probed by the authorities. But unlike Microsoft, Google has not yet been found to be ... See all stories on this topic » TheStreet.com

Wyoming state government goes with Google's cloud Digitaltrends.com Google gets its foot firmly in the government software door by landing Wyoming, which will now use Google Apps for Government. Wyoming has become the first state to completely adopt Google Apps, Governor Matt Mead Announced this morning. ... See all stories on this topic »