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Google acquires mobile ad network

Google tightened its grip on digital advertising with a push deeper into the mobile world as it agreed to buy AdMob, the largest mobile advertising network, for $750m in stock

Bing steals lead on Google with Twitter search

Microsoft’s new search engine became the first to let users search tweets in real time, but Google announced later that it had reached a deal with Twitter for a service of its own

Google in Android deal with Verizon

Google won its biggest endorsement from a mobile phone company for its Android mobile operating system, with Verizon Wireless announcing a multi-year partnership to launch phones, netbooks and PDAs based on it

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Google on a cloud

Google’s decision to develop its Chrome browser into a Linux-based operating system is no surprise, but it could be the beginning of the end of the Windows monopoly

Just browsing

Google on Wednesday released a comic book introducing Chrome, its new internet browser designed to compete with Microsoft’s Internet Explorer

Man in the News: Eric Schmidt

Schmidt

Google’s answer to Gates: a technologist on a very different path has finally collided with Microsoft

Microsoft and search

Microsoft

Microsoft has lost a cumulative $7bn in its online business over the past decade, but has finally done something right – it has chosen to play a different game

The genius behind Google’s browser

From his farmhouse in the Danish countryside, Lars Bak has developed a computer software program called V8 – a lynchpin in the company’s online domination

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