『Meanwhile, Chinese regulators renewed a key license for the U.S. Internet giant, suggesting that authorities continue to accept the way Google has restructured its operations in China to stop censoring its own Chinese-language search results.』  

『When Google Inc. launched its Google+ social-networking site three weeks ago, executives handed out sailor hats to the hundreds of employees working on the project, symbolizing their year-long journey to that point.So far, the sailing has been most  

『Demand Media Inc. said it is shutting down a program for user-generated content on its eHow website and plans to commission longer, higher-quality feature articles and videos.The website publisher, which focuses on short articles that it thinks wil  

『Microsoft Corp. and Facebook Inc. unveiled a plan to improve the results of Microsoft's Bing search engine by tapping into peoples' social connections on Facebook, amping up the rivalry with Google Inc.The companies described the agreement  

『　今年に入っても新聞の広告売上も不振である。新聞以外の主要メディア（テレビ、雑誌、ラジオ、インターネット）の広告が回復しているのに、新聞だけがマイナス成長から抜け出せないでいる。その上、ここで見てきたように、有力新聞がこぞって発行部数を減らし続けて  

『In a separate statement, Nokia said it would outsource software activities for its Symbian operating system to Accenture, which would also provide software services for Nokia's future Windows smartphones. Nokia added that it expected to complet  

『福島第1原子力発電所の事故では、原子炉1号機の圧力が設計圧の2倍に達していたにもかかわらず蒸気放出が遅れたことが、状況の悪化につながった可能性がある。　ウォール・ストリート・ジャーナルの調査で、放射性物質の大気放出に関して日本の原発運営会社が米企業よ  

『Samsung Electronics Co. said Friday it filed patent infringement lawsuits against Apple Inc. in Seoul, Tokyo and Germany, in apparent response to Apple's suit against it over trademark issues in the U.S. earlier this week.The Samsung lawsuits d  

『The new assessment comes as Japan admits that the effects of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident—which has already caused the evacuation of tens of thousands of people and spread radiation through groundwater and farms over a broad section of e  

『Google is serious about playing its part. We are already testing, with more than three dozen major partners from the news industry, a service called Google Fast Flip. The theory—which seems to work in practice—is that if we make it easier to read  

『Nate Tyler, a Google spokesman, said Thursday that the company is "communicating with small businesses to enlist their support and participation in a test of a prepaid offers/vouchers program. This initiative is part of an ongoing effort at Google to make new products … that connect businesses with customers in new ways."』  

『Google isn’t perfect, of course. It has lagged in social media despite multiple efforts — (Orkut anyone?) But two advantages Google has are money, and the gravitas with local merchants to pull off a Groupon killer. If you’re a Greek restaurant i  

『The study also found some interesting differences among countries — like the fact that 30% of children between the ages of 2 and 5 in the U.S. could operate smartphone apps, while 11% of kids in Japan could. About 70% of young children in the U.K. and France could play computer games, compared with 61% in the U.S. and 44% in Japan.』  

『The first meal of the New Year is a grand one in Japan. The decadent spread, called “osechi” in Japanese, is a cherished, home-cooked tradition. But in step with the more hectic, Internet era that doesn’t allow for as much time to craft the meal