File-sharing company Dropbox plans to take on Google Docs and Evernote with a new online word processing service. Or at least, it appears so. The new product, Composer, surfaced today on Product Hunt, an online bulletin board for tech products, before Dropbox shut down access. Composer is an online notepad similar to Google Docs for...Read More
Europe’s competition regulator is preparing to move against Google Inc. in the next few weeks, a person familiar with the matter said Wednesday, setting the stage for charges against the U.S. Internet-search giant in a five-year-old investigation that has stalled three times and sparked a political firestorm. The European Commission, the European Union’s top antitrust...Read More
From its inception, many have wondered what Google Fiber is really all about. And if a test in Kansas City, Mo., and Kansas City, Kan., is any guide, one answer may be helping Google do what it likes doing best: sell more ads. Since disclosing its initial vision for Fiber in 2010, Google has rolled...Read More
It’s 2020. The New England Patriots, winners of six straight Super Bowls, are having yet another routine meeting with the Commissioner’s Office. Deputy NFL Commissioner Tom Brady and his chief of staff, Rob Gronkowski, OK a rule change that forgives the Patriots for illegally taping other teams and deflating football over the preceding years. Meanwhile,...Read More
When it comes to new stuff, though, that’s about it. University of Maryland professor and Internet law expert James Grimmelmann, author of “The Google Dilemma,†found little surprising in the report: “It focused on exactly the same issues—search bias, vertical search, and ad campaign portability—that were widely debated in public during the investigation.†Broadly speaking,...Read More
WASHINGTON—As the federal government was wrapping up its antitrust investigation of Google Inc., company executives had a flurry of meetings with top officials at the White House and Federal Trade Commission, the agency running the probe. Google co-founder Larry Page met with FTC officials to discuss settlement talks, according to visitor logs and emails reviewed...Read More
It looks like Google wants to bring TV ads into the 21st century. The company has quietly announced a new local advertising service for Google Fiber that will make TV ads behave a lot more like internet ads. Using data from its set-top-boxes, Google (and advertisers) will know precisely how many times a particular local ad...Read More
Google Inc. escaped a U.S. antitrust investigation nearly unscathed in 2013, but the company isn’t out of the regulatory woods. Disclosures that some staffers at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission had recommended charging Google with violating antitrust laws are adding fuel to a long-running European probe into the same practices. U.S…. Article source: http://www.wsj.com/articles/eu-regulators-should-review-new-google-evidence-says-lawmaker-1426858302Read More
Students at Northwoods Middle School in North Charleston, S.C., learn the joys of computer coding thanks to a Google-led program to get girls interested in science and programming.(Photo: Gary Coleman) SAN FRANCISCO — For many male scientists, the high-tech hook was set by Star Trek and Star Wars. Now Google hopes to increase the number...Read More
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