Even if the Justice Dept. were to establish that Google is a monopoly, it would be hard for anyone to prove that the company’s free services have injured consumers By Mathew Ingram Much has been made of Google Chairman Eric Schmidt’s admission on Wednesday that the Web giant might be a monopoly, which came during...Read More
Google, in seeking regulators’ approval for the ITA deal, said it would use ITA technology to “benefit passengers, airlines, and online travel agencies by making it easier for users to comparison shop for flights and airfares.’’ ITA, based in Cambridge, Mass., makes software that provides online flight and ticket information aggregated from the airlines. Article...Read More
Google officially rolled out its Google Wallet mobile payment system on Monday. We’ve been using a Sprint Nexus S 4G with Google Wallet for the last six weeks. Google Wallet is still in its infancy, but the system already shows a lot of promise. Right now, Google Wallet only works with Citi-Mastercards and the Google...Read More
When it comes to being social, Google CEO Larry Page is apparently very particular. Who, therefore, could be surprised that social networking isn’t quite as vital to his being as, say, burying the whole of Facebook in a very large vat of custard? The difficult thing is that everyone believes the whole world will soon...Read More
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s antitrust investigation into Google’s search engine could shine some light on the secret inner workings of the company’s search ranking decisions and the relationship between advertising and free search results, some Google critics said Friday. With other Google services being integrated with its search engine and Google offering both paid...Read More
(AFP) – 5 hours ago NEW YORK — AOL, Microsoft and Yahoo! are proposing to offer space on each other’s sites to advertisers in a bid to take on Google, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday. The newspaper said the system would launch later this year or early next year and would allow advertisers...Read More
SAN FRANCISCO–Intel hauled out its first Android tablet running on “Medfield,” an upcoming Atom chip for smartphones and tablets, while two executives also chatted about their relationship with Google at the company’s developer conference today. The Medfield Atom chip is one of Intel’s most power-efficient chip designs–a strict requirement for tablets and smartphones. It contains...Read More
Like us on Facebook The restaurant review company was founded by Tim and Nina Zagat more than 32 years ago, and has since established itself as a trusted brand all over the world over. It operates in 13 categories and more than 100 cities. The Zagats confirmed the acquisition on their company’s Web site and...Read More
Every time a person runs a Google search, watches a YouTube video or sends a message through Gmail, the company’s data centers full of computers use electricity. Those data centers around the world continuously draw almost 260 million watts — about a quarter of the output of a nuclear power plant. Up to now, the...Read More
By Alexei Oreskovic SAN FRANCISCO | Wed Sep 7, 2011 8:19pm EDT SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Facebook’s revenue doubled to $1.6 billion in 2011’s first half, a source with knowledge of its financials told Reuters, underscoring its appeal to advertisers while it grapples with intensifying competition from the likes of Google Inc. Net income in...Read More
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