. FROM THE SEEDS of inspiration, six squat and beautiful sculptures are born. In some countries, Google is celebrating Halloween on Monday with a very entertaining time-lapse video short. The “Google Doodle†on the home search page features company employees and friends who carve their way onto the global digital landscape by carving out a...Read More
BY AMIR EFRATI AND LAUREN A.E. SCHUKER Google Inc. on Friday announced the creation of around 100 online video “channels” on its YouTube website that will have new original programming involving celebrities such as such as singer Madonna, rapper Jay-Z, actor Ashton Kutcher and former NBA star Shaquille O’Neal. The venture, in partnership with dozens...Read More
SAN FRANCISCO (Dow Jones) — The anticipated trial to resolve Oracle Corp.’s (ORCL) claims that Google Inc.’s (GOOG) Android mobile-phone software infringes on Oracle’s intellectual property has been pushed back, according to court filings. In a court filing on Wednesday, Judge William … Article source: http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20111027-719654.htmlRead More
SAN FRANCISCO (Dow Jones)–Google Inc. (GOOG) said Wednesday it spent over $1.4 billion on acquisitions in the first nine months of this year, as the Internet search giant seeks to expand into new markets such as local deals and travel services. Google disclosed in a regulatory filing that it spent $151 million to buy restaurant-reviews...Read More
This interactive map from Google’s latest Transparency Report shows the amount of user account data governments around the world request. (Credit: Google) A new report from Google shows a rise in government requests for user account data and content removal, including a request by one unnamed law enforcement agency to remove YouTube videos of police...Read More
Hope your past week of Google Voice-less communication has been alright, iOS users, because we – by way of Google Voice’s official Twitter account – have the news you’ve been waiting to hear. Google Voice is now back in Apple’s App Store, as engineers have apparently fixed the issue that had previously caused Google to...Read More
By ETHAN SMITH Google Inc. is building a music-download store that would work closely with its Google Plus social network and could launch it within the next two weeks, according to people familiar with the matter. Users of Google Music, as the service is tentatively named, could recommend songs in an online library to Google...Read More
BY JOHN LETZING Google Inc. has been unable to provide more than a third of Los Angeles city employees with its Apps software because of security concerns, highlighting difficulties the search giant faces as it tries to create revenue streams outside of its core business. On Wednesday, Los Angeles City Council member Dennis Zine filed...Read More
Google Translate expanded its “Conversation Mode” feature to 14 languages Thursday for Android mobile phone application users, MSNBC’s Technolog reports. The newly enhanced mobile software allows users to translate conversations in Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin Chinese, Polish, Russian, and Turkish. Currently, the application only translates speech into English and...Read More
Google is nuking its Twitter clone in a couple of weeks in favor of loving its new social website big-time. Friday Google said in a blog that it plans to kill Google Buzz and the Buzz API in a couple of weeks. The news isn’t surprising given that the Twitter clone really never caught on,...Read More
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