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Google's Rubin: Don't expect Alliance help if you fragment Android SlashGear Google has struck back at claims that it strong-armed Acer into ditching a collaboration with Alibaba, insisting that the contentious Aliyun platform is not only based on Android but distributes pirated Android apps. Chinese firm Alibaba made loud ... See all stories on this topic » SlashGear Top China Stories from WSJ: Protest Rage, Xi Returns, Google vs. Acer Wall Street Journal (blog) Anti-Japan Protests Mount in China: Angry crowds across China ransacked Japanese businesses, smashed Japanese cars and pelted Tokyo's embassy in Beijing with eggs and plastic bottles in weekend protests over disputed islands in the East China Sea. See all stories on this topic » Wall Street Journal (blog) Google creates entrepreneur day, ends IE8 support for Apps TechRepublic (blog) Technical tracks will unsurprisingly be focused on Google technologies, and include talks on Android, Chrome, Google+, Analytics, Adwords, marketing, the “cloud,” and YouTube. Keynote speakers will be Google Australia Managing Director Nick Leeder, ... See all stories on this topic » Google Malaysia blocks 'Innocence of Muslims' video clip The Star Online PETALING JAYA: Google Malaysia has blocked YouTube access to the controversial "Innocence of Muslims" video clip in response to a complaint from the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC). Those trying to load the video from ... See all stories on this topic » The Star Online Analyst: Google and Apple to Dominate Mobile Market in 2012 PC Magazine It's going to be an Apple-Google market if an analyst from Global Equities Research has anything to say about it. Analyst Trip Chowdhry is estimating that Google and Apple, combined, will capture 98 percent of the worldwide mobile market by the end of ... See all stories on this topic » Google's New Game Bacon Number Results in Bacon Number 2 Gather.com The Google version is a revival of the original "fun" party game, popular eighteen years ago, that tested movie buffs' ability to connect the actor Kevin Bacon to the works of other actors and actresses by degrees of separation. Reportedly, the idea ... See all stories on this topic » Google Fiber TV adds Disney & Turner channels — big cable still showing no fear VentureBeat This is a huge win for Fiber TV, a service that's currently only available to residents of Kansas City bundled with a 1Gbps broadband Internet service. For $120 per month, Google Fiber customers get far more than what competitors are offering. And many ... See all stories on this topic » VentureBeat Google Adding 'Do No Track' Into Chrome's Latest Developer Build eWeek However, in an emailed statement to The Wall Street Journal's All Things Digital section, Google spokesman Rob Shilkin wrote: “We undertook to honor an agreement on DNT that the industry reached with the White House early this year. To that end we're ... See all stories on this topic » Google identifies The Verge as malware host CNET The problem apparently began this morning when visitors to the tech news site using Google's Web browser were greeted with a message informing them that The Verge contained content from SBNation.com, a site the Web giant accused of distributing ... See all stories on this topic » Google Buys Nik to Lure Photographers to Google Plus New York Times (blog) Google said on Monday that it had acquired Nik Software, a company that makes tools for editing and sharing photos. It is Google's latest defensive move against Facebook and part of its strategy to become a photo-sharing hub. Facebook's dominance in ... See all stories on this topic » New York Times (blog)

Google Wins Stay From U.S. Appeals Court on E-Books Case Bloomberg U.S. Circuit Judge Raymond Lohier of the U.S. Court of Appeals in Manhattan today granted Google's request to stay the lower-court trial. Lohier said he wasn't ruling on Google's likelihood of prevailing on appeal. The Authors Guild didn't file any ... See all stories on this topic »

Google rejects White House request to pull Mohammad film clip Chicago Tribune SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc rejected a request by the White House on Friday to reconsider its decision to keep online a controversial YouTube movie clip that has ignited anti-American protests in the Middle East. The Internet company said it ... See all stories on this topic »

Google milestones may catch Facebook eye San Francisco Chronicle Google made two interesting announcements Monday that will likely open some eyes over at Facebook headquarters: The Google+ social network now has 100 million monthly active users, and Google bought a firm that makes a photo editing and sharing ... See all stories on this topic »

Google Drops Support for IE 8, Windows XP Wired Microsoft's new Internet Explorer 10 web browser is set to arrive Oct. 26. Shortly thereafter, on Nov. 15, Google Apps will no longer support IE 8. The move will make Google one of the first major companies to drop support for Microsoft's 3-year-old ... See all stories on this topic » Wired

Google adds 'Do Not Track' to Chrome by year's end PCWorld Editor's Note: The following article is reprinted from Computerworld. The original version of this story can found here. Google has moved a step closer to making good on its promise to support "Do Not Track" in Chrome by the end of this year. Chromium ... See all stories on this topic »

Google to Begin Transforming Kansas City into a Gigabit City Search Engine Journal Google has always prided itself on its ability to organize the world's information and provide it free of charge to its users. The cost of Google's services is bourn by the advertisers. Google might simply be exponentially increasing its online real ... See all stories on this topic »

Biz Break: More iPhone sales and stock price records for Apple; Google buys ... San Jose Mercury News Today: Apple's (AAPL) stock continues to set records as the company announces 2 million iPhone 5 devices were purchased in the first 24 hours of availability. Also: Wall Street's four-day rally comes to an end as Netflix (NFLX), Groupon plummet, and ... See all stories on this topic »

Google searches for SMBs ignored by Indian IT companies Economic Times BANGALORE: Google is eating into the market of Indian IT services providers by aggressively selling its products and technology solutions to small and medium businesses, which are estimated to spend $15 billion ( Rs 80,000 crore) on technology by 2015. See all stories on this topic »

Google, Acer and the joke that is the Open Handset Alliance BetaNews Google is the center of a controversy about Acer's cancelled Aliyun OS phone launch, and there is seemingly no end to punditry about the search giant applying pressure, possibly even making threats. At the end of the day the whole mess has very little ... See all stories on this topic »       BetaNews