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The conventional wisdom gaining strength these days is that Google is past its hot-growth prime. But unnoticed by many investors are at least three businesses that could give the search giant's stock the kick it's looking for.

Welcome to Thrifty Tech, a Money College weekly column about technology options on a college budget. This week, we talk about how to avoid spending a bundle on essential software with free, open source alternatives. With back-to-school shopping gearing up, chances are you've already picked up the...

Lauren Berger is known for completing 15 internships in four years. Now she's turned her experience into her own business. As the Intern Queen, she helps interns find success. With the start of school comes the end of summer internships for thousands of students across the country and abroad....

Citing slow adoption, Google (GOOG) announced Wednesday on its blog that it is halting development of Google Wave, an innovative email application which combined elements of live chat and real-time document sharing. When announced in May 2009, Google Wave was lauded as a breakthrough technology...

Considering how much it costs these days to get into a concert or a ball game, wouldn't the lure of free passage as a member of the Fourth Estate be tempting? FI Media Group certainly thinks so, judging by this e-mail making the rounds advertising for a press pass: Since there would be NO...

Software giant Microsoft (MSFT) is preparing to offer a free, web-based version of its popular Office software suite next week, according to the Financial Times. Microsoft is targeting Google (GOOG), which has aggressively pushed into the web-based software space with its Google Docs product. It's...

Great news for anyone looking for a free way to edit and share Microsoft Office documents like Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote - Microsoft is giving anyone with a free Windows Live account access to the Microsoft Office Web Apps and 25GB of free storage on SkyDrive. These free Microsoft...

The search giant is said to be upset about security flaws in Microsoft's operating system, claiming they led to the cyber-attack in China. But it's more likely that Google is simply preparing for the launch of Chrome, its much-ballyhooed Web-based OS.

There is a lot of buzz these days over a new product called Google (GOOG) Wave. Some are under the false impression that it's the next Twitter, but this new tool from Google is very different. Think of it as a real-time collaboration tool that includes, among its many features, email on...

When your chief business rival is giving its product away, you have two choices: either sit back and watch your customers migrate to the other team, or match what the other company is doing. For three years, Google (GOOG) has offered Google Docs, which offers free browser-based document and...