Has Google Hit Its Peak, Like Microsoft and IBM of Yesteryear?

As Google faces an antitrust probe from European regulators, some analysts are questioning whether the California tech giant’s dominance has already peaked. While Google remains one of the world’s biggest companies with overwhelming dominance of Internet search, its prospects are less rosy in a tech landscape rapidly shifting to mobile devices and social media, say some industry watchers. Debate heated

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Cory Booker Responds To Twitter Trolls In The Best Way Possible

As a politician and Twitter celebrity, it’s no surprise that Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) is bombarded by abuse from Internet trolls on a regular basis. But trolls seem to be no match for the former Newark mayor. On Sunday, Booker tweeted that he would appear on “Meet The Press” to discuss last week’s fatal Amtrak derailment. The tragedy of Amtrak

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Startups Try to Challenge Google, at Least on Mobile Search

Europe’s competition regulator filed antitrust charges against Google on the belief that the company’s search business had become so powerful that it was pretty much impossible to compete with. But don’t tell that to Bobby Lo. Lo is the founder of Vurb, a startup in San Francisco’s bustling downtown that has a new kind of search engine designed for mobile

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Packed Field Stokes Competition for Digital Ad Dollars

Over the next two weeks, some of the biggest Internet companies and publishers will showcase their original programming in an annual attempt to attract advertising dollars. The events, taking place in New York under the banner of the Digital Content NewFronts, are equal parts sales pitch and festival. This year, they are also something else: crowded. Thirty-three companies are holding

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Google’s EU Showdown Offers Openings to Competitors

Start small, win quick, then move on to bigger issues. That appears to be the European Union’s strategy to pursue Google in a competition dispute by choosing to push a narrow set of charges around its shopping service, while opening another investigation of Google’s Android mobile phone software. Whether or not the EU succeeds in branding Google a market-abusing monopolist

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