Alan Eustace

A Federal Trade Commission probe into Google's practices related to data collection from its Street View cars has been dropped after the world's largest search-engine operator made changes to safeguard consumer privacy.

Here is something you don't read every day: Internet search giant Google (GOOG) announced that it froze salaries for its top executives in 2008 and cut their bonuses a bit. In the company's annual regulatory filing, Google stated that it kept salaries for executives (other than its CEO and...