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Spain's government Thursday defied Google's vow to shut down its Spanish online news service in protest at being made to pay for content, in its latest legal clash in Europe.
      

Global search giant Google is the best-known brand in Bulgaria, a yearly Top 20 ranking shows.

While the first five brands are international (Coca-Cola, Nescafe, OMV and Adidas come after Google), the sixth position is occupied by the Bulgarian private national channel bTV.

In only a week, a simple android game based on the recent tumultuous Albania-Serbia football match, published on Google Play Store on November 11, has received more than 3,500 reviews.

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After 12 years in power, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan by now has established a good record of initiating unexpected controversies. Last week, he ignited yet another one, which went globally viral, by claiming, “Muslims discovered America, not Christopher Columbus.”

In a fresh attempt to embrace local popular culture, Google has dedicated a very special doodle to late Turkish funnyman Kemal Sunal on the occasion of his 70th birthday on Nov. 11.

A comparison of 20 satellite photos hosted by Google Earth reveals how Istanbul has changed with more concrete and less green spaces over the past decade.

A comparison of 20 satellite photos hosted by Google Earth reveals how Istanbul has changed with more concrete and less green spaces in the past decade.

Angela Doğançay, wife of Burhan Doğançay, a leading figure in the Turkish art scene who passed away in 2013, has donated one work from his last series to Istanbul Modern.

Google on Oct. 30 confirmed that an executive behind leading mobile device software Android is leaving the company to create an incubator for hardware startups.
      
Andy Rubin became a Google executive in 2005 when the Internet titan bought Android Inc., which was then a small startup that Rubin co-founded two years earlier.
      

Google is exploring a way to search inside people's bodies for early signs of deadly illnesses such as cancer or heart disease.
     
A Life Sciences team at the special projects Google X Lab are experimenting with having "nanoparticles" hunt for signs of medical trouble in bloodstreams and then essentially report findings to sensors people could wear.