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The world's biggest wire service and the leading search engine have worked out their differences. Google and the Associated Press have reached a new licensing deal that ensures the latter's content will be hosted on Google News for a long time to come.

Google (GOOG) may be a search engine giant, but it's also a leading player in alternative energy. Founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin are extremely keen on promoting clean-energy initiatives. Through the company's non-profit Google.org, they've invested indirectly in a number of interesting...

It's been more than a year since Google (GOOG) shares traded at $500, but it looks like Googlemania has officially returned. The search giant's stock price crossed that symbolic threshold on Tuesday and danced around the $500 mark before closing at $499.06, up half a percent. That put Google shares...

It's the hottest new media meme since lolcats: The internet is a leech, a louse, a bloodsucker -- a parasite. Wall Street Journal managing editor Robert Thomson recently described websites that use others' content to build their own traffic as "tech tapeworms as the intestines of the internet."...

New York Times Columnist Frank Rich is arguing that the free lunch for news on the internet is going to come to an end. One can hear the protestations rising from every corner of the nation, and probably the world, for that matter. But Rich argues persuasively that we're going to have to pay for...