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Sundar Pichai: Google Drive Is About Context, Where Competitors Are About Files

Liz Gannes in News on April 24 at 11:19 am PT

After years ago helping to kill an unreleased previous product called Google Drive, Sundar Pichai is now pitching a product with the exact same name.

Google Q1 Earnings: “Velocity, Execution and Focus”

Liz Gannes in News on April 12 at 2:00 pm PT

Here’s how Google CEO Larry Page and his deputies explained their latest quarter and their effective stock split.

Internet Explorer on the Upswing

John Paczkowski in News on April 3 at 5:29 am PT

Could IE’s slump finally be over?

Voices

Once Shunning Ad Promos, Google Now Flaunts Itself

Amir Efrati in News on March 27 at 5:30 am PT

After years of touting the superiority of online advertising, Google Inc .is taking a decidedly different approach to promote itself in areas where its rivals dominate.

Viral Video: OMG Snooki’s Pregnant as a Google Commercial

Kara Swisher in Media on March 26 at 12:30 am PT

This will surely end in tears.

Google’s Worlds Collide as Chrome Browser Comes to Android (Video)

Ina Fried in Mobile on February 7 at 9:40 am PT

Chrome arrives in beta form in the Android Market, and requires the latest Ice Cream Sandwich version of the operating system.

Going Back to Internet Explorer

Walt Mossberg in Mossberg’s Mailbox on January 11 at 3:59 pm PT

Walt answers a reader’s question about security holes in Web browsers.

News Byte

After Chrome Ads Flap, Google Puts Itself in the Penalty Box

Peter Kafka in News on January 3 at 2:47 pm PT

Google, which says it had no idea it was paying bloggers to promote its Chrome browser, is punishing itself for doing so. The search giant tells Danny Sullivan it will penalize the “pagerank” of www.google.com/chrome for “at least 60 days.” Google has blamed the pay-per-post campaign on ad network Unruly Media, but says “Google should be held to a higher standard, so we have taken stricter action than we would against a typical site.”

Google Will Pay Mozilla Almost $300M Per Year in Search Deal, Besting Microsoft and Yahoo

Kara Swisher in News on December 22, 2011 at 10:57 am PT

The search giant will pony up close to $1 billion to hipcheck Microsoft’s Bing from the pole position on the Firefox browser.

Voices

Microsoft: The $71 Billion Cloud Underdog

Nick Mehta, CEO, LiveOffice in Voices on December 20, 2011 at 12:31 pm PT

If I say “cloud computing,” what companies come to mind? Amazon’s Web Services? Google’s cloud-based collaboration tools, Google Apps? How about Microsoft?