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Google, HSBC back African Internet project
Google and Europe’s biggest bank HSBC have thrown their weight behind an ambitious plan to provide cheap, high-speed web access to three billion people in Africa and other emerging markets.

Google Chrome code to be open source
Google’s chief executive admitted on Thursday there was a “defensive component” to the web search giant’s launch of its own Internet browser, thereby pitting it against Microsoft’s dominant software. Schmidt added that “there is a defensive component” to the launch of Google Chrome, the code of which will be open source so no rights will have to be paid by anyone using or adapting the software, which will be a competitor to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, the dominant Internet browser.

Google turns 10, raises monopoly concerns
When Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google Inc. on September 7, 1998, they had little more than their ingenuity, four computers and an investor’s $100,000 bet on their belief that an Internet search engine could change the world. It sounded preposterous 10 years ago, but look now: Google draws upon a gargantuan computer network, nearly 20,000 employees and a $150 billion market value to redefine media, marketing and technology. Perhaps Google’s biggest test in the next decade will be finding a way to pursue its seemingly boundless ambitions without triggering a backlash that derails the company.

Google to Purge Server Logs Twice as Fast
In response to growing privacy concerns from U.S. and European lawmakers, Google announced that it will cut the amount of time it stores users’ IP addresses on its servers in half, reducing the retention period from 18 months to nine months.

Google Offers Web Searchers, Chrome Users More Privacy
“We’re significantly shortening our previous 18-month retention policy to address regulatory concerns and to take another step to improve privacy for our users.”