Iranian state television said that Iran's Foreign Ministry threatened to take legal action against Google on Thursday for dropping the name Persian Gulf from its Google Maps application and thereby leaving the waterway running between Iran and the Arab states nameless, Reuters reported.

Iranian state television said that Iran's Foreign Ministry threatened to take legal action against Google on Thursday for dropping the name Persian Gulf from its Google Maps application and thereby leaving the waterway running between Iran and the Arab states nameless, Reuters reported.

Facebook Inc. (FB) 's $16 billion initialpublic offering has made 28-year-old Mark Zuckerberg the 29thrichest person on Earth. Facebook, the world's most popular social networkingcompany, sold 421.2 million ...

With Facebook's IPO, founder Mark Zuckerberg becomes the third richest person in American tech, behind only Bill Gates and Larry Ellison. At the same time, the fortunes of Google's Sergey Brin and Larry Page and Amazon's Jeff Bezos took a dive today with their respective stocks down.

Facebook on Friday is to make the richest-ever share offering for a technology firm, raking in billions of dollars it could wield to dethrone Google as king of the Internet.

Sowohl Google als auch Microsoft wollen mit neuen Cloud-Angeboten Amazon Konkurrenz machen. Microsoft wird seine Pläne wohl zuerst der Öffentlichkeit vorstellen.

New polymorphic Android malware, meanwhile, disguises itself as a free virus scanner.

Google is preparing to revamp how "pure Android" smartphones are sold in a move that will surely appeal to diehard Android users.

(ChinaPost.com.tw) - Google is revamping the way it handles searches in the United States to give users quick access to answers without leaving the page, the company said.

Google renewed its pitch to embrace cloud IT at its Atmosphere roadshow. But its count of companies going Google Apps doesn't add up.

The representatives of both parties have signed a brief that stipulates how the copyright infringement damages will be treated in the lawsuit. Meanwhile, the jury is discussing the patent issues

According to The Wall Street Journal, Google is planning to launch Jelly Bean, the next version of its Android mobile operating system, on several Nexus smartphones from a number of different manufacturers

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Google plans to take back control of its Android OS from wireless carriers and sell phones directly to consumers. What better way to get OS upgrades to users quickly and keep Android on top in the mobile device wars?

What does Google's new search technique mean for you? Augmenting search results with sets of associated facts could please users but decrease traffic to other sites.

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Iran is threatening to sue Google over removing the name 'Persian Gulf' from its online map service.