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Beijing, June 21 (ANI): Google Inc. has announced that it would take all necessary measures to comb out pornographic results in its Chinese-language portal, Google.cn.

“We are undertaking a thorough review of our service and taking all necessary steps to fix any problems with our results,” a statement from Google’s headquarters in Silicon Valley in the [...]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Executives from Google Inc, AT and T Inc, Twitter and other high tech companies are visiting Iraq this week to explore how technology may help fight corruption and build a more accountable society, the U.S. State Department said on Monday.
The department, which helped arrange the April 19-23 trip, said the executives would [...]

Studio content deal involves Sony
* Latest effort to expand content, attract ad dollars (Adds details of deal, byline)
By Sue Zeidler
LOS ANGELES, April 16 (Reuters) – Google Inc’s (GOOG.O) YouTube said on Thursday it has reached a deal to post Sony Corp (6758.T) (SNE.N) films and TV shows and was talking with other big studios [...]

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Google Inc’s YouTube said on Thursday it has reached a deal to post Sony Corp films and TV shows and was talking with other big studios to ramp up content and attract more advertising dollars.
YouTube also announced deals with 11 other partners including the Anime Network, Shout Factory, Telenext Media, Documentary [...]

Q1 EPS $5.16 beats Wall Street view $4.93
* Q1 revenue $5.51 bln in line with Street view $5.53 bln
* CEO says economy tough, users searching but not buying
* Shares flat after initial 5 pct rise after hours (Adds analyst comment, conference call details, background)
By Alexei Oreskovic and Anupreeta Das
SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK, April 16 (Reuters) – [...]

Banks climb amid growing hope US lenders stabilising
* High-tech exporters up on industry hopes after Google, Nokia
* Nippon Steel surges on smaller-than-expected price cut
TOKYO, April 17 (Reuters) – Japan’s Nikkei average rose 1.7 percent on Friday as financial stocks such as Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (8306.T) climbed after reassuring earnings results from JPMorgan (JPM.N) fuelled [...]

Banks climb amid growing hope US lenders stabilising
* Nippon Steel jumps on smaller-than-expected price cut report
* High-tech exporters up on industry hopes after Google, Nokia
By Aiko Hayashi
TOKYO, April 17 (Reuters) – Japan’s Nikkei average rose 2.2 percent on Friday as banks climbed after reassuring earnings from JPMorgan, while steelmakers surged on a report that Nippon [...]

NEW YORK (Reuters) – The Verizon Hub, a new kind of home phone with some Web add-ons like weather and traffic reports, will soon come with an applications market, following a trend among cellphone makers such as Apple to open up to third-party apps.
Verizon Communications has been selling the Hub to its wireless customers since [...]

SEATTLE (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp said it will launch a test version of its Exchange Server on Wednesday, marking the latest development in the technology used by 65 percent of businesses worldwide to run their e-mail systems.
The public beta test version of Exchange Server 2010, as the product is called, is the first of a [...]

SEATTLE (Reuters) – The chief executives of Microsoft Corp and Yahoo Inc met last week to discuss potential partnerships between the companies’ Internet search and advertising operations, the technology blog All Things Digital reported on Friday.
Wide-ranging talks have taken place between executives at the companies, the blog reported, including discussion of the potential for Microsoft [...]

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Google Inc.The internet search giant, Google secured significant victories in its Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) cases against two Indian companies last month. The World Intellectual Property Rights Organization (WIPO) gave its verdict in favor of Google, in its domain names’ cases against Ascio Technologies and Net Jobs, and the WIPO arbitration [...]

Google Inc should defend a trademark lawsuit by Rescuecom Corp over advertisements linked to keyword searches, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Friday.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York rejected a ruling by a U.S. District Court dismissing Rescuecom’s litigation against Google.
“The complaint’s allegations that Google’s recommendations and sale of [...]

In order to mollify antitrust regulators who are threatening to block the alliance, a list of concessions has reportedly been submitted by Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. This list will deflate their proposed Internet advertising partnership.
During the weekend, the U.S. Justice Department received the revisions from the two companies.
On Monday, a very well known journal [...]