Tuesday 26 April 2011

News: Google

News10 new results for Google
 
Apple, Google In Privacy Hot Water Over "Locationgate"
Search Engine Land
Apple and Google are helping intensify an already intense digital privacy debate with last week's revelations that both companies' mobile software track your movements in detail without your affirmative consent. This morning the Wall Street Journal ...
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Egyptian Protest Leader to Take Break From Google, Form Tech NGO
Wall Street Journal
By MATT BRADLEY CAIRO—A Google Inc. executive whose digital activism played a central role in the revolution that overthrew Egypt's government in February has said he will leave the search-engine giant for a time to start a nongovernmental ...
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Google, a Giant in Mobile Search, Seeks New Ways to Make It Pay
New York Times
In early 2008, in the early days of the iPhone era, Google engineers began noticing something unusual in the search engine's logs. Owners of these new phones were doing a huge number of Web searches. A photo can be used for Web searching with the ...
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"In the Plex" Exposes Internal Google Conflicts and Machinations
All Things Digital (blog)
by Liz Gannes This weekend I spent some time reading Steven Levy's "In the Plex," an account of the history of Google based on Levy's deep embedding within the company (see Kara's video interview with Levy from last week). ...
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All Things Digital (blog)
Letting It Fly: DOJ's Conditional Approval Of Google-ITA Software Merger
Forbes (blog)
Two months ago we opined about what was at stake in the Justice Department's review of a merger between Internet search and advertising leader Google and ITA, a company which created and maintains a leading airfare pricing and shopping software system ...
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Linux patent suit ruled against Google
ZDNet Asia
By Caroline McCarthy, CNET News on April 25, 2011 (10 hours 50 minutes ago) First of multiple defendants in a suit from a firm founded by a "patent reform advocate", Google has been asked by a jury to pay US$5 million for the infringement. ...
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Phone Location Tracking: Google Defends, Apple Stays Mum
PCWorld
Google has come clean on why Android phones are tracking users' locations, while Apple, showing typical disdain for the press, still won't comment on iPhone location tracking. Speaking to the Wall Street Journal, a Google spokesman said Android ...
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Google Teases Groupon Clone, Already Sued
ConceivablyTech
Google is almost out with its Groupon clone. Just in time for the first patent infringement lawsuit. Google Offers, essentially a Groupon-type website in Google colors, has been announced as beta service in Portland, Oregon, last Thursday. ...
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Overstock.com Released From Google Penalty Box
PR Newswire (press release)
SALT LAKE CITY, April 25, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Overstock.com, Inc. (Nasdaq: OSTK) (short cut: O.CO) today announced that the search engine penalty enforced on them by Google in late February has been lifted. "We understand Google's position and we have ...
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Playing the Business Competition Between Wal-Mart, Amazon, Netflix, Google and ...
Seeking Alpha
Like Apple (AAPL), Google (GOOG), and others, Wal-Mart and Amazon use offshoots from their core or original businesses to enter into fierce, even if somewhat unintended, competition against one another. And while I grew up on the entertaining cola and ...
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Blogs5 new results for Google
 
Mystery Woman Vera Svechina Snuck Into Google, Left Book And Letter
By The Huffington Post News Editors
By Dan WhitcombLOS ANGELES | Fri Apr 22, 2011 6:56pm EDT(Reuters) - A woman who claims Google is "inside her head and making her do things" quietly gained entry to the company's Silicon Valley headquarters last month, leaving behind a ...
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/thenewswire/
Google Fined $5 Million for Using Linux
By Drew Wilson
In what could be a major blow to those hoping to see Linux in the workplace, a small company called Bedrock Computer Technologies sued Google for patent in.
ZeroPaid.com - http://www.zeropaid.com/
Google Tweaks Its Plans for Google Video, Makes It Easier to Move ...
By Audrey Watters
Last week, Google notified owners of video content on Google Video that the site would be officially shuttered, giving them what felt like very short notice on its closure. Effective April 29, videos would no longer be available for ...
ReadWriteWeb - http://www.readwriteweb.com/
Samuelson on Legislative Alternatives to the Google Books ...
By James Grimmelmann
Digitization is an obvious and important component of preservation strategies; a well-crafted preservation privilege could help institutions like the HathiTrust use Google-scanned books to pass on our literary heritage. ...
The Laboratorium - http://laboratorium.net/
Groupon Poaches Google Executive | Business | Epoch Times
By By Antonio Perez/Epoch Times Staff
In its second major Google poach in two months, last week, Groupon hired Google veteran Margo Georgiadis to be its chief operating officer.
Epoch Times | All headlines - http://www.theepochtimes.com/

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