On Tuesday, the world's largest social network raised the target IPO price range to $34 to $38. If Facebook shares sell at the upper limit )$38(, the social network will raise about $12.8 billion and its market value will be approximately $104 billion. As a result of the higher target price and rich valuation, a .

A Google-backed project, the Atlantic Wind Connection, cleared the first of many regulatory hurdles yesterday. The U.S. Department of the Interior said that no competitors have an "overlapping competitive interest" and cleared Atlantic Grid Holdings LLC to proceed with an environmental impact study for their underwater power line. The study will analyze and measure the .

According to several inside sources, Google is reportedly in serious talks to acquire the social platform Meebo. Although Meebo CEO Seth Strenberg has not commented on the negotiations, Google is expected to pay approximately $100 million for the seven-year-old technology company. Since the time Meebo launched in 2005, the company has consistently evolved and grown. .

Rand Fishkin, the CEO of the popular SEO software company SEOmoz, recently announced a new project related to webspam research. The goal of the project is to better understand and devalue the amount of "link equity" that passes from pages that could be considered webspam. Fishkin explained the project on his Google+ page earlier this .

In March, Search Engine Journal reported that Google was planning on making drastic algorithmic changes to provide its users with better search results. The changes, which are primarily focused on incorporating new semantic technology, will allow Google to better understand search queries and include answers and information at the top of the search results page. .

Although Google has been the subject of multiple antitrust investigations related to how they arrange search results and rank Web sites, a new 27-page report suggests that Google should be offered the same First Amendment rights as a newspaper. The report, which was commissioned by Google, makes a strong case that search engines are protected .

On Monday, a San Francisco federal jury delivered a partial verdict in the Oracle v. Google trial. The jury, which was composed of five male and seven female jurors, agreed with Oracle's allegation that Google's Android mobile software used Java technology. However, since the jury could not agree on whether or not Google's use was .

In February, Stanford researcher Jonathan Mayer discovered that Google had bypassed a key Safari browser privacy setting in order to install tracking cookies. By hiding a "web form" within an online ad, Google circumvented Safari's default settings and violated users' right to privacy. If the Safari user clicked the +1 button in the ad, Google .

In 2004, Google began to digitally scan millions of books from libraries in order to incorporate textual excerpts in the search results. However, shortly after launching the new program, a lawsuit was filed by The Authors Guild, various publishing companies, and individual authors stating that Google is not the copyright holder and is not authorized .

In a criminal complaint filed in India earlier this year, journalist Vinay Rai alleged that Facebook, YouTube, and the Orkut social network are hosting content that "seeks to create enmity, hatred and communal violence" and "will corrupt minds." In response to the criminal complaint, Google and Facebook promptly filed a petition to stop the criminal .

In May of 2009, Gmail launched an experimental version of Automatic Message Translation in Gmail Labs and now Gmail has announced that the feature is graduating. The new feature, which is expected to roll out to all Gmail users over the next several days, makes communicating with those who speak a different language much easier. .

Google's autocomplete feature, which has faced many legal challenges over the past several years, is facing a new lawsuit in a French court related to Rupert Murdoch search query suggestions. When a Google user types "Rupert Murdoch," the search engine suggests they complete a search for "Rupert Murdoch Jewish." The lawsuit, which was filed by .

On Friday evening, Google released the full 25-page document detailing the recent investigation by the Federal Communication Commission )FCC( into Google Street View. The Google Street View project, which used hundreds of high-tech cars equipped with special photographic equipment to collect images of streets, enabled Google Maps to provide users with 360-degree views of streets .

The Federal Trade Commission )FTC(, which is currently investigating Google to determine if the search engine is unfairly favoring its own web properties over competitors, announced Thursday that they would be retaining outside counsel. FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz told reporters that the decision to retain a highly-experienced litigator does not indicate that the FTC has .

On Wednesday, Google visited Detroit automakers that can help make Google's prototype of a self-driving car a production vehicle. Anthony Levandowski, who is the product manager for the self-driving car, told a group of automotive engineers that he believes this product can be brought to the markets soon: "I think it's time for us to .

In November of 2011, six Estonian nationals were arrested by the FBI for creating malware that infected computers worldwide. The malware, which was named DNS Changer, manipulated the user's DNS settings and replaced the ISP's good DNS servers with rogue DNS servers that were operated by the criminals. Since the criminals controlled the DNS servers, .

Baidu, the leading Chinese-language Internet search provider, recently reported a strong year-over-year rise in first-quarter earnings. Compared to the first quarter of 2011, the Chinese search engine increased first quarter net income by 76% to $299 million )1.88 billion Yuan( and total revenue by 75% to $677 million )4.26 Billion Yuan(. However, due to a .

After enduring launch rumors for over six years, the Google Drive has finally launched! Sundar Pichai, the Senior Vice-President of Chrome and Apps, made the long-awaited announcement on Google's blog: "Drive is built to work seamlessly with your overall Google experience. You can attach photos from Drive to posts in Google+, and soon you'll be .

Facebook, which is on the verge of the long-awaited and hyped initial public offering )IPO(, recently disclosed that their net income fell 12% in the first quarter of 2012. Also, when compared to fourth quarter revenues, the first-quarter total revenues for Facebook fell by 6% to $1.06 billion. However, the social networking giant told investors .

Google billionaires Eric Schmidt and Larry Page have decided to provide funding for an interesting space exploration start-up named Planetary Resources. The new company, which is focused on natural resources and space exploration, plans to mine natural resources from asteroids and add trillions of dollars to the global GDP. In addition to the Google executives, .