Google.de Slips Its Leash

Google Sprinkles Seedfund With Cash

Google's made one more step into India, but it's done so in an uncharacteristically quiet manner. Rather than buy out another company, or at least throw up a new research center, the search engine giant merely contributed an "undisclosed amount" to a seed investment firm known as Seedfund.

Searchers Say: ‘The iPod Is So 2006’

Remember all that caterwauling outside of MacWorld a couple of weeks ago? The ecstatic throngs seizing up and falling to the floor upon sight of the iPhone, bringing back memories of Michael Jackson tours in the Eighties where girls would cry themselves into comas? Yeah, well, if searches for the term "iPhone" are any indication, expect that mass market hysteria to continue.

Can Google’s Digital Bookstore Succeed?

It has been widely speculated that Google's Book Search project would become the gateway to a much larger vision that the search company had in mind all along. By going public with their intent to offer an e-book service, Google has dropped the other shoe regarding its efforts to digitize book content.