This Google office has a real fireman’s pole, slide, cattle walkway, and more (gallery)

Nap rooms are so 2000s. Massage rooms are a dime a dozen. And the in-office gym has been around since at least the 90s. So if you want to up the ante, attract the best talent, and have the most brag-worthy office in the world, you need more.

The 21 ways Google makes money from mobile (infographic)

Google had its first $50 billion year in 2012. With its massive investments in mobile, someday it might make that much just on the little plastic and metal devices we carry in our pockets. Here's how.

Google’s Offer Extensions rolling out within a week, integrating deals with search

"It's a way better deal than Groupon," Kim said. "Also, advertisers can track this."

How you can advertise smarter and cheaper on Google AdWords than PC Mall, Costco, and Overstock.com

You wasted a good chunk of that $50 billion on advertising that didn't convert, didn't show ROI, and wasn't intelligently conceived. Ideagility CEO Ron McDaniel wants to change that.

30 billion times a day, Google runs an ad (13 million times, it works)

13 million times a day, a product is sold, a white paper is downloaded, some personal information is taken. In short, some exchange of value takes place -- at huge, mind-boggling scale.

How Google makes $100 million a day — and how GOOG lost $21 billion last week (infographic)

Last week Google stock crashed 10%, shedding about $21 billion in market value, when its earnings were prematurely released. Google revenue was up ... but profit was down.

The 25 most popular online tools for freelancers (infographic)

BestVendor is releasing the result of its 2012 Freelancer Survey tomorrow, revealing the most popular tools and apps for freelancers and entrepreneurs.

But the company gave VentureBeat a sneak peek today.

In Google We Trust: Google helped create $80B for American businesses in 2011

Google may be a worth upwards of $200 billion by itself, but the company is also helping to generate some serious revenue for everyone else.

So says the company’s latest Economic Impact Report, which estimates that Google’s search and advertising …

Google’s AdWords for Video could make YouTube ridiculously profitable

Google has rolled out a version of its its successful keyword search advertising service AdWords for Video, the company announced on the YouTube blog yesterday.

AdWords for Video is essentially Google’s attempt to take on the video advertising world by …

Court revives critical keyword-advertising lawsuit against Google

Google got a dose of bad news today, as a court revived a longstanding trademark infringement case against it.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit has decided to address whether Google is in violation of trademark infringement …

New Internet business in four days: Wharton School workshop for MBAs

Create an Internet business in four days; that’s the goal of the Wharton School of University of Pennsylvania’s workshop that finished yesterday. Students spent four days turning ideas into business prototypes and competing against each other in the course’s Innovation …

DOJ: Google to pay $500M settlement over illegal online drug ads

Google will pay $500 million to the federal government for allowing ads from Canadian pharmacies to be displayed through its AdWords program, the Department of Justice announced today.

The ads made it easy for US residents to order controlled and …

Google's new search mantra: "Did you know?"

Google CEO Eric Schmidt said that the future of search was blazing-fast, “autonomous” searching that constantly provides users with results. He made the comments at a keynote speech at the German IFA home electronics event in Berlin Tuesday.

But autonomous …