Publishers of general news would find it hard to charge for their content online because too much free content is available, the chief executive of Google Inc said on Thursday.
Speaking to a group of British broadcasting executives via video link, Eric Schmidt said he could, however, imagine niche providers of content such as business news [...]

The billionaire founder of Google, Sergey Brin, has announced he will contribute money and his DNA to a study into the genetic underpinnings of Parkinson’s disease.
The study will be conducted by 23andMe, a company co-founded and co-managed by Mr Brin’s wife, Anne Wojcicki.
The company hopes to [...]

Google Inc is seeking to blur the line between the telephone and the computer even further with the introduction of Google Voice on Thursday.
The new service weaves traditional phone features with Google’s Gmail email product, allowing a person to store transcripts of voicemail phone messages in their email inbox and to find a specific nugget [...]