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Despite all its cutting-edge technology, Google Inc. has turned to the humble text message to break into Nigeria’s booming economy.
The search engine has started a service in Nigeria, as well as in Ghana and Kenya, which enables mobile phone users to access e-ails through text messaging....

YouTube has begun restricting access to videos of an anti-Islamic film in the world's most populous Muslim nation, a government official said Sunday.
"Google, which is YouTube's parent company, emailed us on Thursday evening to say it had blocked Indonesia's access to 16 URLs related to the "Innocence of Muslims" videos on the site," Communications and Information Ministry spokesman Gatot Dewa Broto...

Andrew Garfield
said he has dreamed of playing Spider-Man since he was a little boy, so that when it came time to actually suit up as the iconic superhero, the pressure of the role nearly overwhelmed him.
"Before, it was just pure fantasy," Garfield, 28, explained at the premiere of "The Amazing Spider-Man" in Los Angeles last week."Suddenly, I had to embody that character for a generation of kids. And I wanted to so desperately do it well and inspire...

Wednesday was the first day of summer, also known as the summer solstice. It's the longest day of the year (and the shortest night).
The actual moment of the solstice occurred about 7:09 p.m. Wednesday, while the sun sat directly above the Pacific Ocean to the west of Hawaii....