Google Calls Justice Department Second Request on Motorola Deal “Pretty Routine” (If Four Percent Is Routine)

The acquisitive search giant plays the odds again in Washington, D.C., with handset purchase.
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Google’s Schmidt at Senate Antitrust Hearing: Eric “Gets It!”

Google faces the antitrust music in Washington, D.C.
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Google Fires Back in Android Patent War of Words

Google’s top legal officer acknowledges that Microsoft did, in fact, offer to bid with Google for Novell’s patents, but contends that Redmond is trying to distract from the bigger picture.
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Microsoft PR Ninja Strikes Back at Google Patent Whine With Email Jujitsu

Google waxes on, so Microsoft waxes off.
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Google Rails Against Anti-Android Patent Cabal

Google a victim? Seriously?
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Google Updates Its Management Page…By Taking Almost Everybody Off It

We’d chided Google recently for its out-of-date management page, given the departures and promotions since Larry Page took back the CEO title on April 4. Now the company has, indeed, updated its management page…by taking almost everybody off of it.

PageYank: As New SVPs Are Born at Google in CEO Reorg, What Happens to the Old Ones?

Things are sure shaking over at Google, since the sudden departure on Monday of Jonathan Rosenberg, Google’s head of product management, and the appointment of a passel of new SVPs. What’s next in newly installed CEO and Co-founder Larry Page’s GoogQuake?

Internet Censorship a Trade Barrier, Says Google Exec

Internet censorship isn’t just a barrier to free expression–it’s a barrier to free trade as well. And Google Chief Legal Officer David Drummond says we need to start treating it like one, because it limits access to foreign markets.

BoomTown Casts the Google Movie (You're Welcome, Hollywood!)

With the news that a Hollywood production company is working on a movie about Google, based on the non-fiction book “Googled: The End of the World as We Know It,” by Ken Auletta, BoomTown has been noodling on which actors would be good to cast in the various roles of the top players. While the Google film is not as juicy as the upcoming fall film about Facebook, there is plenty of opportunity to bring a little glamour to the Googleplex.
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Google Shutters Google.cn

Google has finally adopted the “New Approach to China” that it announced back in January, making good on its threat to end censorship of its services in the country. Earlier today, the company begun redirecting Internet traffic away from its Chinese-language site at google.cn to google.com.hk in Hong Kong.

DOJ Rachets Up Microhoo Review

LIVE: Google Press Luncheon

Google: Che Diavolo, Italia?

Now What Are You Going to Do, Jerry?

HP Declares EDS Employee Surplus