published Apr 7th 2016, 7:44 pm, by Pavel Alpeyev (Bloomberg) — Yahoo Japan Corp. shares rose on news that Verizon Communications Inc. is willing to buy Yahoo Inc.’s stake in the Japanese Web company as part of a bid for the business. Verizon made the offer to include Yahoo Japan

©2016 Bloomberg News O1WCI86VDKHT (Bloomberg) — U.S. antitrust officials should consider revisiting their closed investigation into Google’s search practices in light of claims by the European Union that the company manipulates results, said Utah’s attorney general. The Federal Trade Commission’s decision in 2013 not to bring a case against the

©2015 Bloomberg News NXXH8U6KLVRB (Bloomberg) — The bloodshed in Paris led U.S. officials Monday to renew calls for limits on technology that prevents governments from spying on phone conversations, text messages and e-mails. Senator Dianne Feinstein, the California Democrat, said she’s asked Silicon Valley companies to help law enforcement and

©2015 Bloomberg News NVKAVKSYF01V (Updates with analyst comment in fifth paragraph.) (Bloomberg) — Amazon.com Inc. will stop selling media- streaming devices from Google Inc. and Apple Inc. that aren’t easily compatible with its video service, the latest example of the company using its clout to promote products that fit with

©2015 Bloomberg News NSW6S56JIJUX (Bloomberg) — Google Inc. Chief Executive Officer Larry Page speaks affectionately of fellow billionaire Warren Buffett’s approach to business. With the decision to restructure the Internet-search giant, Page is putting Buffett’s influence into practice. Page on Monday said he’s restructuring Google so that all units outside

©2015 Bloomberg News NQF3FK6S972C (Bloomberg Business) — Sidewalk Labs, the Google-backed urban innovation startup unveiled this month, has picked its first project—bringing free, fast Wi-Fi to cities around the world. Today it announced it is leading a group of investors acquiring Control Group and Titan, among the companies working on the LinkNYC network to blanket

©2015 Bloomberg News NPR76B6KLVRF (Bloomberg) — Google Inc. is backing a new business with the goal of bringing innovation and new technology into cities, aiming to improve urban life for residents, businesses and governments. The initiative, called Sidewalk Labs, will be headed up by Dan Doctoroff, a former deputy mayor

©2015 Bloomberg News NP320VSYF01U (Bloomberg) — Google Inc. has been trying to make its mark in mobile payments since 2011 without much success. Now, the Web company is betting that a new feature called Android Pay will help it challenge Apple Inc., which entered the fray last year. Android Pay,

Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk has been ranting about Killer Robots and the possibility of Google building a robot army.  The CEO and product architect of Tesla Motors and the CEO/CTO of Space Exploration Technologies posted a comment on the futurology site Edge.org, warning that developments in AI could bring about robots that