Audi's CEO is concerned about Google's incursion into Germany's auto industry. But recently the same automakers, along with the German government, have expressed caution over Google's incursion into ...

Having publishers opt-in to Google News will likely make it more difficult for them to ask Google for content licensing fees after the fact. Our team tests, rates, and reviews more than 1,500 products ...

The German parliament waters down new legislation, allowing news aggregators to publish small excerpts of print articles. By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief COLOGNE, Germany – Google has won a ...

German publishers said they are bowing to Google’s market power, and will allow the search engine powerhouse to show news snippets in search results free of charge, at least for the time being. The ...

In a move that could harm its country’s own businesses, Germany is targeting Google on privacy issues again — this time over Google Analytics. German privacy officials are concerned that Google ...

In 1994, the design firm, ART+COM, filed a patent for something called “Method and Device for Pictorial Representation of Space-related Data.” That technology was the foundation for a program called ...

A Berlin court has ruled against a woman who sued Google to preempt Street View from photographing her house, a notable decision in a country with tight privacy laws that already govern the Google ...

Google head of search spam Matt Cutts posted on Twitter this morning another stern warning to German webmasters about a link penalty looming for them. Matt Cutts tweeted: A reminder (in German) that ...

It's difficult to see quite why the German newspaper publishers went after Google News in the first place. And seeing what they're doing now it's becoming near impossible to understand their motives.

Google received an ultimatum Thursday from German consumer organizations that want it to start answering questions from its users via email. The Federation of German Consumer Organisations (VZBV) has ...

Google's conflict with European publishers reached a new level on Wednesday as Google agreed to stop publishing extracts and thumbnails from stories published by a group of German publishers who are ...