NEWS ANALYSIS: Bitcoin had a difficult year in which its value declined by two-thirds, but there is still much reason for optimism in 2015. Read more »

In addition to Gmail, many popular Western Web services have been banned in China because they were deemed objectionable by the country's authorities. Read more »

Google confirms access to Gmail remains blocked, but there has been no statement from Chinese government authorities as to why the Gmail IP addresses have been blocked. Read more »

Users of the company's browser-based Office Online Word and PowerPoint services can now host Skype group chats to work together on documents. Read more »

Ireland joins a growing list of Microsoft supporters as the software giant battles the U.S. government's efforts to obtain data on overseas servers. Read more »

Nearly half (46 percent) of all health care organizations surveyed cited better allocation of IT resources as the biggest benefit of cloud computing. Read more »

VIDEO: Saar Gillai, SVP and general manager of NFV at HP, discusses the opportunities and the challenges of cloud deployment. Read more »

Though mobility and analytics absorb a ton of attention, the cloud is the most impactful IT trend. Here are predictions for the cloud hosting sector. Read more »

The latest Google Transparency Report shows that the number of government content removal requests ticked down modestly compared with the previous tracking period. Read more »