Google is growing up. This may seem a strange thing to say about a company that has long been one of the most profitable digital enterprises.

Twenty-five years of human expansion and environmental devastation across the globe has been illustrated in interactive time-lapse graphics by Google.

Facebook's net income and revenue grew in the first quarter of the year, helped by an increase in mobile ad revenue, a figure some sceptical investors are watching closely.

Google's new privacy policy is under legal attack from regulators in its largest European markets, who want the company to overhaul recent privacy policy changes.

It used to be that Google was constantly in the news; now Google constantly is the news.

Bored of an evening? You could always create an Algae Biofuel Lab as one 17 year old student in the US did to win a $100,000 science prize.

Tech fans have finally had their first good look at Google Glass, the hotly anticipated web goggles worth US$1500 a pair.

Watching television while simultaneously browsing the net on a smartphone, tablet or laptop is becoming the new norm in New Zealand living rooms, according to Google.

The G20 group of leading industrial and developing countries was talking tough at the weekend about getting multinational corporations to pay more tax.

Detailed maps of North Korea - complete with prison camps - can now be viewed online for the first time thanks to Google.

Google Maps is famous for getting the commuter, cyclist and pedestrian from A to B; but it is a little known fact that the man who oversaw its development is a Kiwi.

The Irish enjoy nothing more than whingeing about the weather. But internet giants say the people of Ireland should be grateful for their damp, cold climate.

The debate around the level of tax paid by multinational corporations, and where they pay them, has morphed into a drama involving protagonists.

The Olympics, Kony, Marmite, Whitney Houston and images of Jaime Ridge - New Zealanders' internet searches have revealed the motley cast of people and events that have shaped the online year.

New Zealand is going to find it increasingly difficult to tax multinational companies like Google and Facebook, says a specialist tax consultant.

Facebook's "tiny" and "barely believable" tax bill this year makes a mockery of New Zealand's tax loopholes for multinationals, says the Labour Party.

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