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Copyright owners can’t sue Google’s YouTube as a group, judge rules (Saratogian)
A U.S. judge on Wednesday denied class-action status to copyright owners suing Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) over the use of material posted on YouTube without their permission. U.S. District Judge Louis Stanton in Manhattan denied a motion to certify a worldwide class of copyright owners in a long-running lawsuit over videos and music posted to the popular website. “The suggestion that a class action of these dimensions can be managed with judicial resourcefulness is flattering, but unrealistic,” Stanton wrote.

Google, Larry Page offer surprises at I/O conference (BizJournals)
Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) Chief Executive Officer Larry Page made a surprise appearance at the company’s annual I/O developers conference in San Francisco, a day after he disclosed he had a rare vocal cord condition. The Wall Street Journal reports Page spoke for nearly an hour about how technology will be able to improve people’s lives. Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) used the conference to showcase its latest services and enhancements, which include new features for online games, maps and search, as well as a new music-streaming service that will go up against the likes of Pandora Media Inc (NYSE:P) and Spotify.

Google enables mobile checkout in two clicks (InternetRetailer)
Two clicks is all it takes. That’s how quickly Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) says shoppers can now checkout in an Android app with the Instant Buy Application Programming Interface, or API, it has added to its Google Wallet payments service. Consumers who have signed up for Google Wallet can now check out in Android apps without having to manually enter their billing or shipping information, whittling the checkout process in many cases to as little as two clicks, Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) says on its blog. Google Wallet stores the consumer’s payment data and sends it to the app developer with the consumer’s permission at checkout.




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