Image via ChameleonsEye / Shutterstock.com Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) is getting a bump in the stock market on Monday, likely in reaction to the big news announcements it’s made at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The Google stock price was up about 2 percent, to $569.74, as of mid-afternoon Monday. Update: Shares in Google closed up 2.3 percent...Read More
If you’re striving to make sense of Google’s plans for its new north-of-Bayshore office space — call it the Greenhouse Complex — pay attention first to the company’s DNA, its history and its competition. They’ll tell you volumes about what Google is trying to achieve. The design by architects Bjarke Ingels and Thomas Heatherwick is...Read More
Federal Communication Commission (FCC) Chairman Tom Wheeler, center, joins hands with FCC Commissioners Mignon Clyburn, left, and Jessica Rosenworcel, before the start of their open hearing in Washington, DC, on Thursday, Feb. 26, 2015. Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Before the FCC voted today to adopt new rules that will make it easier for the agency to...Read More
i Google co-founder and CEO Larry Page says the company will place more focus on its key projects. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images hide caption itoggle caption Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Google co-founder and CEO Larry Page says the company will place more focus on its key projects. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images It is hard to imagine a world...Read More
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Yandex, Russia’s largest search provider, has filed a complaint against Google for what it believes are anti-competitive practices. The complaint specifically relates Google’s bundling of its search engine and apps into Android, which is, by far, the most popular mobile OS in Russia. According to Yandex, Google is actively preventing local smartphone vendors from pre-loading...Read More
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Google and toy maker Mattel revealed that they are collaborating on a new version of the classic View-Master toy that uses Google’s smartphone-based virtual reality solution, Cardboard. Like Google Cardboard and Samsung’s and Oculus’ Gear VR, the new View-Master is a headset with a slot that holds an Android smartphone, which will produce the images....Read More
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Dr. Google has always been a bit of a quack, doling out ever shoddier medical advice with every passing search result. Search the symptoms of a rash and somehow, someway, you will inevitably come to believe you have cancer. Now, the search engine is trying to bring some much-needed validity to the world of health-related...Read More
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