Google is investigated under 9 cases brought against it with the EU regulators, according to the sources with the knowledge of the matter. So far the European Commission confirmed 4 cases against Google. The new complaints will extend EU regulator’s current investigation. "The Commission has nine formal complaints now. The new complaints come from small companies," said one of the sources who declined to provide details because of the sensitivity of the matter.

Google acquired The Dealmap in a move to further gain the share of a daily deals market. No terms of the deal were disclosed. Google said it was "impressed with what The Dealmap team has accomplished." "Google provides the ideal platform to help us accelerate our growth and fulfill our mission," The Dealmap said on its blog. "Joining Google will help us innovate in new and unexplored areas of commerce." The Dealmap said on Monday that its main products and services will continue "for the time being."

Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Google Books and Kobo have removed their links to web-based stores from the applications for the iPhones and iPads. In fact, Google Books has removed the whole application itself. The booksellers removed their links in line with an edict issued earlier this year by Apple that demands all apps offering content for sale or subscription to do so through the App Store, and not through external links to the seller's web store. Moreover, following its usual money making policy Apple require a 30% commission from all such sales.

Google Inc is launching a credit card for advertisers in a move to increase ad spending as the competition in the market is growing. The card will be offered to select Google’s clients in the US with a competitive interest rate, says Google. The card features ample credit line and no annual fee, and can be used only for paying for search advertising on the search engine website. The AdWords Business credit card allows businesses to spend more on Google’s search ads when their needs arise.

Talking to journalists at the Allen & Co. media conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, chairman of Google Inc Eric Schmidt said that the company is open to more co-operation with social-media giants Facebook and Twitter, and believes there is room for multiple social networks as it is launching its another social media project. Schmidt noted that Google will cooperate fully with U.S. antitrust regulators but will not let the formal probe launched last month distract or disrupt its strategy.

Google Inc terminated inviting users to join its new social networking service just 48 hours after the official launch. Google Senior Vice President of Engineering Vic Gundotra said the company had "shut down invite mechanism" for the Google+ service for the night, in a note he posted on Google+ on Wednesday evening. "Insane demand. We need to do this carefully, and in a controlled way," Gundotra wrote. On Tuesday Google announced the service Google+ as another effort to dethrone Facebook from its crown position in the social media market.

While Google markets its Chrome OS based computers as safe because of cloud information storage compared to traditional PCs where the information is stored on hard drives, researchers have found some vulnerabilities that allow hackers successfully steal users’ data the same way they do when hijacking websites.

Google is struggling with governments all over the world to remove Internet censorship and the fight is going worse, said Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman of the company. Schmidt noted he fears his own colleagues faced mounting danger of occasional arrest and torture. As rebels and revolutionaries in Arabian countries such as Egypt and Tunisia used the Internet to communicate with each other and support their move, governments in many other sates focused more closely on restricting access to the worldwide web like they did with the television.

Google announced an affiliate program to allow publishers promote its eBook service on their websites for a certain pay. Google will accept publishers of a variety of websites into the program, including online retailers, blogs and book publishers. "Starting today, we invite all interested site owners to apply to join the expanded Google eBooks affiliate program. Participating sites gain new revenue streams by giving their book-reading audiences an easy way to buy Google eBooks," wrote Pratip Banerji, product manager at the Google Books team, in a blog post.

Google added new features to speed up web searches for mobile users. On Tuesday at a briefing in San Francisco Google demonstrated a new feature called Instant Pages which allows certain Web pages to pop-up in a user's Web browser nearly instantaneously, as well as a revamped version of its website for mobile devices. The Mountain View noted that traffic coming from mobile devices such as smartphones has increased by a factor of five during the past two years.

New iteration of Apple’s operating system for desktops would include that a feature to allow quick access to the Internet surfing without logging back to the system when it is locked. Apple is introducing to its new coming OS X Lion desktop OS a browser-only mode called "Restart to Safari.” With this feature appearing as an option on Lion's lock screen users will be able to access to a sandboxed version of the Safari browser. However, users won’t access their desktop applications or other files from this mode.

Google is in the legal war with ISYS Technologies over the derivatives of the Chrome word. The Mountain View plans to call its forthcoming laptop Chromebooks while ISYS claims the name infringes on its trademarks. ISYS asked a Utah district court for an injunction to stop Google and its partners from launching the laptops later this month. The company owns Xi3 Corporation, a subsidiary which last month introduced the ChromiumPC, a desktop computer that runs the Chrome OS.

The US Reputation Institute published the results of a survey conducted within a period of January-April. The poll found that Google and Apple are considered the most reliable, respected and reputed companies in the world. The study polled 48 thousands consumers across 15 countries including Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Russia, Spain, South Korea, Great Britain and US. Thus, the survey rated these companies as top 10:

Matt Cutts posted new video footage at Google Webmaster Central where he answered the question of a user: “More or less content on a homepage?” “You can have too much,” says Cutts. “So I wouldn’t have a homepage that has 20MB. You know, that takes a long time to download, and users who are on a dial-up or a modem, a slow connection, they’ll get angry at you.”

In a move to test the Internet for its readiness for a future with billions more people and devices networked, web companies including Google, Facebook, Yahoo and others joined their forces. As it has been reported many times the number of Internet addresses used for most traffic is about to exhaust and it is urgent that all web resources adopt IPv6 which has 4 billion times as many addresses.