With Apple's own Maps software for the iPhone having been hit by issues galore, a native version of the Google Maps app for the handset has now been released on the Apple store.

Having commenced its operations in Israel nearly seven years back, Internet search giant Google launched its start-up incubator in the country on Monday, December 10.

Inaugurated by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the start-up incubator - which will be essentially a center for Israeli entrepreneurs and start-up companies - has been named Campus Tel Aviv.

According to the Google year-end Zeitgeist report, the top-trending searches of the year 2012 included the Port Coquitlam teenager Amanda Todd, whose story grabbed the headlines worldwide when she committed suicide after years of cyber-bullying. Todd's story was reported widely by international media, including the likes of CNN, the Washington Post and the UK's Daily Mail.

n a move which underscores Google's attempts to pin down promising high-tech start-ups in Israel, the company launched its start-up incubator - dubbed `Campus Tel Aviv' or, simply, Campus TLV - in Tel Aviv on Monday.

Commemorating the 197th birth anniversary of world's first computer programmer Ada Lovelace, the Google doodle marking the occasion shows Ada holding a quill pen and writing the pioneering computer program.

According to the Thursday-released statistics from US research firm ABI Research, the worldwide tablet market share of the Apple iPad touched a record low during the months from between July and September.

According to the information shared by the German lawmakers on Friday, the so-called `Google Tax' - a proposed legislation which will potentially impose copyright restrictions on Internet search engines - has been debated on, and has been sent for further review to an expert committee.

Google's Tuesday-launched campaign against a proposed German copyright law - the Leistungsschutzrecht für Presseverleger, or 'ancillary copyright for press publishers' - has been condemned by the senior politicians in the country.