Google plans to invest $1 billion on partnerships with news publishers worldwide to develop a "Showcase" app to highlight their reporting packages, CEO Sundar Pichai said in a statement Thursday. "This financial commitment -- our biggest to date -- will pay publishers to create and curate...

Facebook is launching a new initiative this week to encourage Americans to vote in the upcoming presidential election, the latest effort by the social network to prove it is a responsible player on the internet. The tech titan will kick off Monday a massive campaign encouraging people to...

Continuing its space buildup, China on Tuesday sent at least nine satellites into space, official media said. The satellites from the Jilin-1 Gaofen 03-1 group took off from the Yellow Sea at 9:23 am (0123 GMT), Xinhua News reported. The indigenously-built Long March-11 carrier rocket...

Facebook Inc said Thursday it would stop accepting new political ads in the week before the US presidential election in November, bowing to concern that its loose approach to free speech could once again be exploited to interfere with the vote. The world's biggest social network also said...