Adding heft to its entry into the operating system market, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) disclosed it was working with a number of major netbook makers on Chrome OS. Among the partners Google listed: Acer, ASUS, Hewlett-Packard, and Lenovo. Google’s plans call for Chrome OS to be on netbooks by the middle…

Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) still hasn’t commented on Google’s plans to introduce an operating system of its own. An official statement is coming later today and we’ll post it here when it comes out. (Update: Microsoft now says it will in fact not comment). But there are lots of reasons why…

Update: Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has officially announced it. And they are open sourcing it, as I suspected below: “Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will…

The latest ruling in a copyright case brought against Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and its YouTube subsidiary doesn’t move the needle much on the core issue but it means the bill should be lower if—and that’s still a big if—the company loses in court. The English Premier League started a class-action…

Citigroup tested 200 of the most common queries to determine which major search engine delivers what it considers to be the most relevant results and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) won by a wide margin. From the report released Tuesday: 71 percent of the time a Google search brought up the most…

Hoping to get more businesses to adopt its suite of online *Google* Apps, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) said Tuesday that it had finally dropped the ‘beta’ tag that it had stubbornly affixed to the names of the products for years. In a blog post announcing the move, which applies worldwide, Google…

Former Feedburner CEO and Co-founder Dick Costolo joins the stream of senior level ad exec departures at *Google* within recent months. Google (NSDQ: GOOG) bought out Feedburner for $100 million in 2007, and quickly integrated its RSS feed monetization technology into AdSense. (It also aggravated many publishers with bugs and…

Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is expanding its real estate listings on Google Maps in a move that could pit it against existing listing sites and could also create additional tension with listing services. Starting Monday, users in Australia and New Zealand can search for available properties on Google Maps, according to…

Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks and cofounder of HDNet, offers running commentary on Blog Maverick. This post, which follows an earlier look at Free versus Freely Distributed, is published here with his permission. The problem with companies who have built their business around free is that it is…

Recent high-profile disputes with the Chinese government don’t seem to be cutting into Google’s revenue there. The company’s second-quarter ad revenue in China is expected to increase by 25 percent, compared to the first quarter according to BrandRepublic, which cites domestic reports (via Marketing Pilgrim). Operating revenue is also expected…

After a few months of informal moves on it, the U.S. Justice Dept is now investigating an anti-trust inquiry into Google’s book settlement with the authors and publishers over its online book scanning and repository project. The agreement, which was reached last year, has been criticized by some authors and…

Time Warner-owned magazine publisher IPC Media is the latest media group to sell its own display ads surrounding its content on YouTube. The company, which has 25 YouTube channels for brands including Marie Claire and NME, claims to be the first UK publisher to sell ads on the Google-owned site.…

Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) said Wednesday that its relaunched Bing search engine would begin to index some Tweets in real-time—becoming the first major search engine to do so. In a post on the Bing community blog, Microsoft’s Sean Suchter said that starting later today the company would highlight new Tweets from…

Two years after introducing a feature that allowed people quoted in news articles to comment on those stories in Google (NSDQ: GOOG) News, Google has dropped the option. A Google spokeswoman tells paidContent, “We’re always experimenting with ways to make Google News more useful. Occasionally, this means we have to…

The latest evidence that Microsoft’s Bing is off to a successful start: Web analytics firm StatCounter says Microsoft’s share of the search market was up 0.5 percentage points to 8.23 percent last month. Google’s meanwhile actually dropped slightly from 79.07 percent to 78.48 percent. “Steady if not spectacular might be…

YouTube cofounder Steve Chen (pictured) is leaving the video service, three years after being bought by Google (NSDQ: GOOG), but is staying with the search giant, Peter Kafka confirms. Chen left his CTO position at YouTube last year, and not involved with day-to-day ops anymore. Google says he has moved…

The Mozilla Foundation put out Firefox 3.5 this morning—the latest version of its blockbuster browser, which has steadily chipped away at Microsoft’s lead, although it still only commands about a quarter of the browser market in the U.S. For all Mozilla’s progress, a big challenge remains reminding users that they…

With Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) demonstrating that there is almost as big of a market for the iPod Touch as there is for the iPhone, it’s no wonder that Dell is considering crafting a pocket-sized device that will connect to the internet (but won’t be capable of making calls). The WSJ…

Never mind that many newspapers may be upset about how their content is treated on Google (NSDQ: GOOG) News. Now Google is lobbying publishers to put their video content on YouTube. In a post on the Google News blog, YouTube News Manager Olivia Ma invites any news outlet that already…