Investor’s Business Daily – Google’s (NMS:GOOG) Web browser took 14.6% of the European market in Dec., up from just 5.1% a year earlier, making its gains largely at the expense of Microsoft’s (NMS:MSFT) Internet Explorer, which lost its European lead. Mozilla’s open-source Firefox has 38.1% of the market, maintaining its share, while Internet Explorer dropped to 37.5%, StatCounter said. Google dipped 0.4% to 602.12. Microsoft rose 0.4% to 28.09.