According to the BBC, China has denounced US criticism of its internet controls, saying it could harm ties between the two countries.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called on Thursday for China to lift restrictions on the internet.
Mrs Clinton also urged Beijing to investigate Google’s complaints that cyber attacks had originated in [...]

Google has unveiled an own-brand smartphone called the Nexus One.
The wraps were taken off the handset at an invitation-only event held at Google’s Mountain View HQ.
The Nexus One is a slim, touchscreen phone built in partnership with Taiwanese manufacturer HTC and runs Google’s Android operating system.
It will be sold via Google’s website [...]

In these uncertain economic times, people want answers - one reason perhaps why Google’s brand value is soaring and bank brands are plunging.
Google’s brand value rose 25% to $31.9bn (£19.5bn) from the year before according to Interbrand’s survey of global brands, the year’s biggest rise.
This is the first time that the total value of the [...]

Yesterday Google launched an open source web browser to compete with Internet Explorer and Firefox.
The browser is designed to be fast, and to cope with the next generation of web applications that rely on graphics and multimedia.
Called Chrome, it will launch as a beta for Windows machines in 100 countries, with Mac and Linux [...]

So you think that Google is the world’s favourite internet search engine? Not in every country so I’ve learned!
In Russia, Yandex is the leading search engine, with 55% of the market compared to Google’s 21%. Check out what Wikipedia has to say about Yandex.
According to an article in today’s Sunday Times, Yandex - set up [...]

One company that seems to excel at talent management is Google.
Liane Hornsey, Director, EMEA Human Resources and Staffing told a CIPD conference in London “We are 100% reliant on talent therefore we only want the best people. Google is very hard to get into. We get 1,000 applications for every vacancy, every candidate goes through [...]