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SAN DIEGO — It had the makings of a high-tension face-off: Eric E. Schmidt, Google’s chief executive, spoke Tuesday at a convention of newspaper executives at a time when a growing chorus in the struggling industry is accusing Google of succeeding, in part, at their expense.
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SHANGHAI — Can global music companies make money by giving away songs in China, where piracy is rampant?
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GIVING IT AWAY AS ONLY GOOGLE CAN A program to distribute free music downloads in China is aimed at attracting advertisers.
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SAN FRANCISCO — The dusty stacks of the nation’s great university and research libraries are full of orphans — books that the author and publisher have essentially abandoned. They are out of print, and while they remain under copyright, the rights holders are unknown or cannot be found.
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SAN FRANCISCO — T-Mobile is planning an aggressive push deep into the home with a variety of communications devices that will use Google’s new Android operating software that already runs one of its cellphones.
T-Mobile plans to sell a home phone early next year and soon after a tablet computer, both running Android, according [...]

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SAN FRANCISCO — Google, which has invested in many startups over the years, will announce on Tuesday that it is creating a venture capital arm whose main objective will be to turn a profit.
The group, called Google Ventures, is expected to invest up to $100 million over the next 12 months. It [...]

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SHANGHAI — Trying to gain ground in one of the few markets where it is behind, Google said Monday that it had begun to offer in China links to free music downloads, a service it does not offer anywhere else in the world.
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Google, the Internet company, said Tuesday that its YouTube video sharing Web site was being blocked in China.
The company said it did not know why the YouTube site was being blocked, but on Tuesday, a report in China’s official Xinhua News Agency accused supporters of the Dalai Lama of fabricating a video that appears [...]

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SAN FRANCISCO — Aiming to outdo Amazon.com and recapture the crown for the most digital titles in an e-book library, Sony is announcing Thursday a deal with Google to make a half million copyright-free books available for its Reader device, a rival to the AmazonKindle.
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Time Warner abruptly fired the two top leaders of its struggling AOL unit Wednesday and replaced them with one of the top executives from Google.
AOL’s new chairman and chief executive will be Tim Armstrong, who joined Google in 2000 to start a sales operation for the then-tiny search engine. Since then, Google has grown to [...]

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NEW YORK, March 12 (Reuters) – Time Warner (NYSE:TWX) Inc’s AOL said on Thursday it has appointed former Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) executive Tim Armstrong as chairman and chief executive to determine the best structure for the Internet unit which its parent is considering spinning off.
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