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Google Launches Venture Fund

Search king details $100 million venture capital fund that focuses on early stage investments in startups.
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Google Loses Android Tech Chief to Startup

Search advertising king, facing growth slowdown and deflated stock price, sees another key engineer depart for a startup.
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Google Gains

Search king reports earnings per share that beat expectations amid economic and advertising concerns. Shares pick up 8 percent in after-hours trading.
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Android: Google’s Billion-Dollar Moneymaker

Analyst says Google’s open-source mobile operating system should generate roughly $1 billion in advertising revenue by 2010.
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G1 on Android Kicks Off Google-Apple OS War

Apple's attack on the mobile market may have met its fiercest rival yet in Google's open-source operating system Android and the legions of phones to come.
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Google Awards Android Developers $3.75M

Apple CEO Steve Jobs' iPhone Apps store, seeded with Kleiner Perkins' $100 million iFund, isn't the only game in town for developers. Search king Google names 20 developers recipients of funding for its Android applications competition. Winning applications for the open-source mobile operating system include cab search, carbon footprint tracking, and price comparison via photo of bar codes.
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Gameloft Forecasts Growth on Apple iPhone

Paris company reports first-half earnings for 2008, saying investments in “distribution” on Apple’s Apps store, among other areas, pave way for future growth.