New York Daily News Google Gets Playful With Facebook RivalryTechNewsWorldFacebook has taken on the sheen of invulnerability with its half a billion strong membership, but one company that could possibly mount a challenge is Google — and it appears to be doing just that. Although unconfirmed,...

Pocket-lint.com Google's App Inventor will lead to an app explosionFortuneGoogle today announced a new product called App Inventor that will change the landscape for creating apps for smartphones. Since Android is moving to TV sets and Netbooks, its reach won't be limited to handheld mobile...

UberGizmo (blog) Google debuts DIY code tools for Android phonesBBC NewsGoogle has released tools that "make it easy for anyone to create programs for Android phones". Much like Lego, App Inventor lets people drag "blocks" of code around to create applications. Google said it...

msnbc.com Google Wins Lifeline to Keeping Operating in China, for NowBusinessWeekJuly 10 (Bloomberg) — Google Inc.'s victory in China — by winning permission to keep delivering search results there — may prove short-lived. The company was surprised by how quickly China renewed...

msnbc.com YouTube Mobile Rocks: And 6 More Great Mobile Web AppsPC WorldWhenever a great Web app comes along, like YouTube's revamped mobile site, it's amusing to glance in Cupertino's direction and wonder if Apple's worried. After all, the company's got a good thing going with...

New York Times (blog) YouTube Mobile Rocks: And 6 More Great Mobile Web AppsPC WorldWhenever a great Web app comes along, like YouTube's revamped mobile site, it's amusing to glance in Cupertino's direction and wonder if Apple's worried. After all, the company's got a good thing...

Telegraph.co.uk Google scrambles to save China licenseThe Durango HeraldAP Business Writers BEIJING – China is threatening to revoke Google's business license over the company's decision to redirect Chinese traffic to computers in Hong Kong that are not governed by the communist …Google...

Reuters (press release) Google to stop redirecting users in China to uncensored siteLos Angeles TimesUsers of Google in China will have to click on a link that takes them to the Hong Kong site. The move comes as a concession to the Chinese government, which had threatened to revoke Google's license....

Globe and Mail Google defends new China moveBBC NewsGoogle's Head of Communications, Peter Barron, has defended the company's "new approach" to its ongoing dispute with China, insisting that the company is still "committed to not censoring results". Until recently, the...

AFP Judge Rules DMCA Protects YouTube in Viacom LawsuitWired NewsGoogle-owned YouTube won a major copyright victory Wednesday when a federal judge ruled the video-sharing site was protected under US copyright law. Viacom, which vowed an appeal, was seeking $1 billion in damages in a case testing...