PHOTO - Google's Nexus, courtesy of Samsung, available in Malaysia. The world's first smartphone to feature Google's Android operating system - 4.00 Ice Cream Sandwich - as well as a high definition (HD) display has been launched in Malaysia.

Getting more small companies wired will help their businesses grow, and help their country fight unemployment, officials said Thursday as Google launched a project that makes it easy to showcase South African entrepreneurship on the Internet.

Google’s “your world” theme is carried into the gaming realm with the announcement of an original title powered by WebGL. The title will be coming to Google+ Games exclusively in February 2012.

Google next month will launch a game version of Google Maps on its Google+ network.

Fortune magazine named Google the best company to work for in America in 2012. The search giant, based in Mountain View, Calif., tries to keep a perfectionist attitude about everything it does, which is why it continues to grow: It is never satisfied with its success.

Google says it will continue to launch new products in coming years

GeekDad is proud to be a launch partner for Google’s new Schemer beta. It’s a social sharing portal for figuring out the answer to the simple question “what do I want to do?”

The beauty of Google (Nasdaq: GOOG - News) lies in its constant effort to reinvent itself since its launch way back in 1998, as it powers its way into new avenues of revenue generation. But what began as, and still is, essentially a search engine has now emerged as an overpowering market competitor for some.

Google reported fourth-quarter revenue and profit that missed analyst expectations. Google shares plunged in after-hours trading.

Wikipedia, Google, and Craigslist are leading today's Internet protest march by changing their home pages in defiance of the SOPA and Protect IP bills. Wikipedia and Craiglist have indeed gone through on threats to "go dark" (though there are workarounds; see below), while Google has gone with a much more understated black bar over its famous logo, and a link to a (sorta) explanation of what the ...