Michael Liedtke

Facebook is trying to prove that a company doesn’t have to make a smartphone or operating system to define how people interact with mobile technology.

Microsoft is trying to lift its stock price by boosting its dividend by 25%, the largest increase since the company started its quarterly payments.

Google’s online advertising system is facing a US Justice Department investigation that is expected to cost the search leader at least $500-million.

YouTube is doubling the size of its online video store in an expansion that will make more movies available for internet streaming.

Google has delayed the debut of cellphones designed to connect with its internet services in China, widening the void between the company and Beijing.

The recession is prodding Google to grow up faster than a lot of people anticipated.

Google is trying to expand the newspaper section of its online library to include billions of articles published during the past 244 years.

Google’s chief executive said this week that the internet search leader hopes its recently acquired advertising service will aid newspapers.

Yahoo! will begin showing homemade videos on its online photo-sharing site, Flickr, in a long-anticipated move that may be too late to lure most people away from the internet’s…

A security lapse made it possible for unwelcome strangers to peruse personal photos posted on Facebook’s popular online hangout, circumventing a recent upgrade to the website’s…

Facebook has raided Google to hire a new chief operating officer, providing the popular online social network with more seasoned management and advertising savvy as it strives to…

In a dramatic about-face, Ask.com is abandoning its effort to outshine internet search leader Google and will instead focus on a narrower market consisting of married women…

Google, already the world’s most popular spot for finding websites, is aiming to become the go-to place for creating websites too. It is taking its first step toward that goal…

Google will begin storing the medical records of a few thousand people as it tests a long-awaited health service that is likely to raise more concerns about the volume of…

Girding for a potential threat from Apple, online DVD rental service Netflix is lifting its limits on how long most subscribers can watch movies and television shows over…