Google CEO Larry Page.(Photo: The Street) Story Highlights Google developing ‘AdID’ to replace third-party cookies Plan designed to give Internet users more privacy, control Advertising industry concerned about Google, Apple power ‘AdID’ would give users ability to limit ad tracking online SAN FRANCISCO — Google, the world’s largest Internet search company, is considering a major...Read More
Eric Schmidt, the executive chairman of Google, reiterated the tech industry’s call for greater transparency from the US government over surveillance on Friday, but declined to “pass judgment” on American spying operations. Speaking in New York, at an event hosted by the New America Foundation, Schmidt said it was time for a public debate about...Read More
By MARK MAREMONT CONNECT Google Inc. founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin may have to dig deeper to operate their fleet of private jets, after the U.S. Department of Defense ended a little-known arrangement that for years allowed the tech billionaires to travel on sharply discounted jet fuel bought from the Pentagon. Google founders Larry...Read More
The ruling, which comes at a moment when online privacy is being hotly debated, has its origins in a much-publicized Google initiative, Street View, which tried to map the inhabited world. In addition to photographs, Street View vehicles secretly collected e-mail, passwords, images and other personal information from unencrypted home computer networks. The scooping of...Read More
BRUSSELS | Mon Sep 9, 2013 6:19am EDT BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Google has offered further concessions aimed at ending a three-year investigation into complaints it was blocking competitors and to avert a possible $5 billion fine, the European Commission said on Monday. The new proposal comes two months after the Commission, which is the European...Read More
Google’s encryption initiative, initially approved last year, was accelerated in June as the tech giant struggled to guard its reputation as a reliable steward of user information amid controversy about the NSA’s PRISM program, first reported in The Washington Post and the Guardian that month. PRISM obtains data from American technology companies, including Google, under...Read More
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Google’s attorneys say their long-running practice of electronically scanning the contents of people’s Gmail accounts to help sell ads is legal, and are asking a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit that seeks to stop the practice. In court records filed in advance of a federal hearing scheduled for Thursday...Read More
So the deal that should have been done 2 years ago is at last completed: Microsoft Microsoft is buying most of Nokia Nokia to take control of its smartphone destiny. Despite saying kind words about having other partners in Windows Phone, though, this move will effectively end the Windows Phone licensing business. It will position...Read More
Until last week, Sergey Brin and his wife, Anne Wojcicki, appeared to be well on their way to becoming Generation X’s Bill and Melinda Gates. The billionaire tech titan and his biologist were a Silicon Valley power couple who, like the Gateses, looked set to make their mark in philanthropy, using their enormous wealth to...Read More
When Larry Page became CEO of Google in 2011, Steve Jobs offered him some advice: “Figure out what Google wants to be when it grows up. What are the five products you want to focus on? Get rid of the rest…. They’re causing you to turn out products that are adequate but not great.” Page...Read More
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