Google and Amazon.com have to stop meeting like this. The two tech darlings are growing into fierce competitors with every new chapter in their quests for consumer domination. The latest page of this low-key yet high-stakes saga finds Google potentially going after Amazon's Prime loyalty shopping program.
When Nokia's CEO presents the company's strategy to investors in London on Friday, it could announce plans to use an outside operating system -- namely, Microsoft's , Google's or both, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.
Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox are developing tools that will allow Web users to block advertisers from collecting information about them.
New app stores for Google Chrome and Macs seek to make it much, much easier to find, buy and install software.
Microsoft's Internet Explorer is the most popular Web browser by far in North America, but in Europe, it has just been overthrown by Mozilla's Firefox. The coup illustrates the rapid growth of Google's Chrome browser, which has been eating away at Microsoft's market share.
Google's already got deals to supply its Chrome operating system for Hewlett-Packard and Acer laptops. But now rumors are circulating that the company's about to come out with its own laptop, also named Chrome and made by Inventec, later this month.
