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Google is expected to unveil its China plans this week, even as early as Monday, a report says.

The founders of Skype will launch a second venture capital fund under their Atomico Ventures which will invest in "disruptive" early-stage technology. They have raised $165 million for the new fund, The Financial Times reported.

Google could reveal as early as Monday the closure of its Chinese search engine and its plan for the rest of its China operations, according to a person familiar with the situation.

An editorial issued by China's state-run news agency says Google is politicizing its threatened withdrawal from the country.

Google Near Plan on China Google is expected to announce this week its next steps in China, where it has said its plans to stop censoring search results may force it to close down its site.

Last Wednesday at breakfast, my generation discovered that our time is up. I got wind of the news on Tuesday by reading it online but, like most people my age, I never entirely believe something until I see it printed on a large sheet of paper, anachronistically delivered to my door by the paper boy.

Add Michigan State University and the surrounding area to the cast of thousands of communities competing for Google's experimental, high-speed broadband network.

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State media lashed out at Google over the weekend with editorials accusing the search giant of helping forces abroad attack China and its laws, while calling efforts to pressure the country over its Internet censorship "ridiculous."

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The Indian Premier League set a new record on Sunday, as it sold two new teams for $703m in a clear sign of the growing interest among companies to reach India's burgeoning consumer classes via the country's most lucrative sporting extravaganza.

The Numbers Guy Sleuths Trace Clues to Predict iPad Sales Weeks before Apple's iPad is released, amateur analysts are reading the digital equivalent of tea leaves to estimate early sales.

Spending on online advertising in the U.S. increased 4.5% to $7.4 billion in the fourth quarter of 2009, marking its first quarterly growth in a year, according to a report published by IDC.

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Google looks likely to win a European high court battle over how it uses keywords in advertising -- but legal experts say the issue is likely to keep rattling the search giant.

The Viacom-YouTube suit has led to the unearthing of a wealth of documents, including figures on the payouts to the video-sharing giant's backers and management from its 2006 sale to Google and one-and-a-half years' worth of losses and profit.

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All Things Digital's Peter Kafka joins the Digits set to discuss an unprecedented look at the finances behind YouTube -- the world's most successful video site.