HONG KONG (Reuters) – Kai-fu Lee, Google Inc’s former China chief who quit the search giant this week, said on Sunday he will launch his own business next week to fund Chinese technology start-ups. Lee, described by Chinese media as the face of Google in China, said on his Twitter page (http://twitter.com/kaifulee) that he will [...]

Yesterday Google posted a mysterious doodle that linked to the search results for [unexplained phenomenon]. According to Google Korea’s blog (English translation), this was the first from a series of 3 doodles that celebrate a famous person. The next doodle will be posted on September 15th and the hints are: mystery, invisible, novel… Tweet This [...]

Kai-fu Lee, who announced his departure from Google China last week, has cause the Internet to erupt with speculation on the reasons for his departure and future plans. News on this hot topic has been difficult to report, as many original sources are difficult or impossible for tech bloggers with limited resources to translate. However, [...]

As time runs short for comments on the proposed Google book settlement to be filed, Amazon has filed its objections: it’s Congress’ job to sort out copyright issues, the deal will create an illegal entity, and (worst of all) it’s bad for Amazon’s business model… Tweet This Post

I know there are some people who have not slept for fear that Google had finally committed itself to some alien culture. Well, some outerworldly alien culture. Well, some outerworldly alien culture where all beings were green and no one used phrases like “market segmentation” and “41 shades of blue.” You see, a mysterious doodle [...]

We don’t want to go too hard on Google, but it seems they’re having some serious stability issues lately. After this week’s Gmail outage, now Google Calendar is unavailable (at least some of the time), too…. Tweet This Post

Google has released a more detailed privacy policy for its Google Books product, a move demanded in recent weeks by several critics of its settlement with publishers and authors. The company announced the new policy in a blog post late Thursday afternoon, saying it developed the policy following conversations with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. [...]

Google Inc. announced that Kai-Fu Lee, president of Google Inc.’s China operations, is resigning from the company after working to establish the Internet giant as a formidable player in the country. Mr. Lee will be succeeded by two Google executives, the company said. Boon-Lock Yeo, currently director of Google’s Shanghai engineering office, will run engineering [...]

This is Part 2 of my series of posts summarizing a fascinating recent hour-long one on one interview with Google CEO Eric Schmidt. Early in the interview I asked Schmidt about the future of search. I brought up the “search is 90% done” misunderstanding from last summer. Said Google Vice President Marissa Mayer at the [...]

Google just received a design patent for Google Search’s homepage. It took the US Patent Office over five years to approve this patent (D599,372) for the design of a “graphical user interface for a display screen of a communications terminal,” but Google’s request was finally approved yesterday. The company already owned a patent for its [...]

Google (GOOG) is very close to bringing movie rentals to YouTube, reports the WSJ. The new service would compete with products from Apple (AAPL), Amazon (AMZN), and Netflix (NFLX)…. Tweet This Post

Google is clearly moving fast in setting up partnerships with ebook reader manufacturers and store operators to give some weight to its threat to Amazon and the latter’s Kindle product line. First, the company teamed up with Sony, adding about 1 million public domain books to the technology giant’s eBook Store… Tweet This Post