YouTube's creators walked away with hundreds of millions of dollars after the startup was bought by Google in 2006, according to documents released in a copyright brawl between Viacom and Google. While former PayPal pals Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim each scored fortunes in Google stock by selling YouTube to the Internet giant, a venture capital firm ...

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. Rights owners have long complained about Google Inc.'s practice of allowing ...

US Internet giant Google will close its business in China next month and may announce its plans in the coming days, Chinese media reported on Friday, after rows over censorship and hacking. The China Business News quoted an official with an unidentified Chinese advertising agency as saying Google would go through with its threatened withdrawal on April 10, but that ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A small company that has opened the door for companies to quickly sign endorsement deals with top athletes is eyeing the music world as its next target market. Brand Affinity Technologies matches companies as large as Sony Corp <6758.T>, or as small as a Houston air conditioning, firm with athletes in two weeks or ...