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Benchmark Capital, the venture capital fund that backs Irish pay-TV group Setanta, has joined the race to find the next MySpace.com by making a $15m (£8m) investment in Bebo, the British online networking site.

I always get the feeling that with every new product from Google, there is a hugely ambitious, hugely ingenious, not-yet-revealed plan behind it. Google Earth, one such new product, might very well be worth watching just to see how far the search giant can push the technology.

The report lists the top 10 parent companies, how many unique visitors they get per month, and how long, on average, each person uses their site over the course of the month.

Google Inc. has dropped Trillian from its Google Pack software suite with nary an explanation, prompting a terse reaction from Cerulean Studios, maker of the popular instant messaging application.

Google has just added “/music” to their robots.txt file which can only mean one thing — Google Music is getting closer.

It’s odd to hear Vinton Cerf, regarded as one of the founding fathers of the Internet, to gush over ink-on-paper books. The electronic pioneer and computer scientist, who now works as Google’s chief Internet evangelist, is also a bibliophile who has a collection of about 10,000 hard-copy volumes lining shelves at his home in McLean. [...]

Google overnight sneaked out much anticipated street mapping data for Australia and New Zealand cities within Google Maps in a move that is likely to spur a frenzy of mapping mash-up activity.

After teaming up with Nike for a soccer community, and after teaming up with Sony’s Da Vinci Code for a series of mini games, Google is now getting together with movie The Break-Up (with Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston). ………

HONG KONG (AP) — China Mobile (Hong Kong) Ltd., China’s largest cell-phone carrier by subscribers, said Thursday it’s in talks with Google to launch an Internet search engine for mobile services in China.
China Mobile is keen to explore mobile data services to offset declining revenue from the traditional voice services.

Google’s latest sneaky launch is Google Notebook - a tool that allows you to collect notes and web addresses while browsing the web.
In simple terms, it’s an online notepad you can add pictures, text and links too. As well as keeping your own notes, you can choose to make notes public. You’ll need a Google [...]

What really irks Terry Semel, boss of the internet giant Yahoo!, is to hear the name of his arch rival used as a verb.
Because while tens of millions of people go “googling” for information on the web every day, a yahoo is still just a crude person.