Google Inc’s online news site experienced service disruptions for roughly two hours on Tuesday, in the second major outage to affect the company in a month.
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Some big companies are starting to move their spreadsheets, word-processing and other productivity programs off of PCs and on to the Web. About 20% of respondents to a study by researcher IDC say Google’s Google Docs offering is widely used in their organization, up from 5.8% a little more than a year and a half ago.
Yahoo Inc hopes to get up to $500 million for a unit that hosts websites for small companies, after putting it on the market for several months, two people familiar with the matter said.
Google provided an explanation Monday for flying saucers invading its celebrated logo — the Internet giant was paying homage to British science fiction writer H.G. Wells.
Experts say a new round of talks, and the government?s intervention, are almost certain to delay a settlement Google was eager to see ratified quickly.
Yahoo is expected to unveil a major new marketing campaign on Tuesday during an advertising conference in New York, according to people briefed on its plans.
A day after unveiling a new Internet search partnership, Yahoo and Microsoft defended it against criticism that Yahoo could have done better, but investors have pushed the stock down 15 percent.
When Apple sent a letter to the government in response to an inquiry about its treatment of Google Voice?s proposed iPhone application, it seemed as if Apple had opened a pinhole in the curtain of secrecy that usually surrounds its Cupertino, Calif., headquarters.
The US Justice Department has advised a court to reject a legal settlement between Google and authors and publishers that would allow the Internet giant to scan and sell millions of books online.
