On its way to the top of the online search market, Google is playing hardball with Apple (AAPL) and Samsung Electronics (005930.SE). The two partners are key to making Google's search engine the defau ...

Microsoft CEO Nadella said his company is already trying to win Apple's annual search engine bid. Apple used Microsoft to get Google to pay more.

Google announced on October 17th local time that Prabhakar Raghavan, the senior executive responsible for search engine and advertising products, will step down after leading the company's core profi ...