Google has introduced the first of at least two Olympic-themed interactive doodles to celebrate London 2012. The doodle lets you get in the spirit of the games as an armchair, and keyboard, athlete. Tuesday’s doodle features a hurdle race where you control the runner with your keyboard’s arrow keys and spacebar. If you miss a...Read More
Google has created an interactive visualization that shows patterns and trends in imports and exports of small arms and ammunition across the world, which it says is an $8.5 billion industry. The graphic, which Google built using the open source WebGL Globe on Google’s Chrome Experiments site, shows the earth with fiery lines that indicate...Read More
(By Mani) Google, Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) has its extended its foothold in social media advertising by acquiring Wildfire, which helps firms deploy marketing campaigns on social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook (NASDAQ:FB). The deal comes as the proliferation of social media, and an increased demand by consumers to engage with brands across multiple social...Read More
Google has upgraded its Wallet app to include all major credit and debit cards. (Credit: Google) As Google announced its major upgrade for Google Wallet yesterday — in which shoppers could use any type of major credit card to load up their smartphone — American Express confirmed today that it didn’t agree to such a...Read More
(Credit: Screenshot by Don Reisinger/CNET) Google today issued a wide-ranging update to its Developer Program Policy, with the aim of making “Google Play a great community for developers and consumers.” The search giant zeroed in on two issues it’s seeing across the Google Play landscape — “deceptive app names and spammy notifications.” From now on,...Read More
Google Hangout on Google+Google will begin replacing Gmail’s existing video chat system with a new, better one based on the Hangouts feature from its Google+ social networking service, the company said Monday. The swap will improve the quality and performance of Gmail video chats, and, if users have Google+ accounts, they will be able to...Read More
The Google Street View service that has brought us Earth as we might not be able to afford to see it — as well criticism that some scenes along its 5 million miles of the globe’s roadways invade privacy — this month has turned its 360-degree cameras on road trips through five national parks in...Read More
BY JOHN LETZING Google Inc. has acknowledged it retained Internet user data collected surreptitiously through wireless networks as part of its street mapping service after it had been ordered to destroy it, according to information posted Friday by a U.K. regulator. The Information Commissioner’s Office, which oversees data privacy in the U.K., says it now...Read More
26 July 2012 Last updated at 11:54 New bills to curb net piracy drew huge opposition and have now been dropped Google, Facebook, Amazon and eBay are joining forces to create a powerful pro-internet lobbying group in the US. The Internet Association, as the group will be known, will launch in September and operate out...Read More
BRUSSELS — The European Commission said on Tuesday that it had reached an “understanding†with Google that could lead to a settlement of an antitrust investigation into allegations that Google abused its dominance of the Internet search and advertising markets. Europe’s competition commissioner, JoaquÃn Almunia, had asked Google in May to make concessions in four...Read More
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