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Google has announced the launch of its own web browser, called Chrome. It’s due to be made available for PC users to download today. “What we really needed was not just a browser, but also a modern platform for web pages and applications,” says Google’s announcement. Quirkily, Google announced Chrome in a specially-created comic strip. The news opens up a new front in Google’s battle with Microsoft, whose Internet Explorer browser is already facing stiff competition from Firefox and Apple’s Safari.

Financial marketwatchers have been pointing out that Apple’s market capitalisation has just reached $158.84 billion - significant, because it’s overtaken Google’s $157.23 billion. It’s more because Google’s (more…)

More news from China - a market coveted and feared by music firms in equal measure for its size and piracy - with Google apparently about to launch an MP3 search engine to compete with local search site Baidu. (more…)

Google has announced the `Google Content Network’, an online entertainment service that will kick off with an exclusive animated series called `Seth MacFarlane’s Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy’ (he’s the creator of `Family Guy’). Rather than being hosted on a single Google site like YouTube, instead the show will be (more…)