AP - The first cell phone running Google Inc.'s mobile software looks something like Apple Inc.'s iPhone and has a large touch screen, but it also packs a trackball, a slide-out keyboard and easy access to Google's e-mail and mapping programs.

AFP - Internet search leader Google took a giant leap into the mobile phone market on Tuesday, unveiling a handset developed with telecom carrier T-Mobile to compete with Apple's hot-selling iPhone.

AFP - Google co-founder Sergey Brin has started a blog, candidly telling of being at risk for Parkinson's Disease and plugging his wife's genetic testing start-up firm.

AP - Google Inc. further extended its dominance in the search engine market in August, according to figures comScore Inc. released Thursday.

Reuters - Google Inc extended an already wide lead in the U.S. Web search to 63.0 percent share of the market in August, its biggest monthly gain in five months, a report said on Thursday.

Reuters - Google Inc plans to move ahead with Yahoo Inc in implementing its advertising search deal and believes that rival Microsoft is behind plans to derail the deal, top executives of the Internet search leader said on Wednesday.

AFP - The European Commission welcomed as a "good step" on Thursday the decision by Internet giant Google to halve the time for which it keeps certain private web-search data.