Jury sides with Google in battle over Android software

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google’s Android software just dodged a $9 billion bullet.
A federal jury found Thursday that Google didn’t need permission to use a rival’s programming tools as it built Android — now the world’s leading smartphone operating software and a key part of Google’s multi-billion dollar Internet business.
Software competitor Oracle claimed Google had stolen its intellectual property and reaped huge profits by copying pieces of an Oracle p