Larry Page and Sergey Brin have long had the dream of a hands-free, mobile Google, where search was a seamless process as you moved around the world. As the years progressed the vision did, too, expanding beyond search to persistent connections with the people in your lives. In other words, Google’s view of the world...Read More
Google … guilty of engaging in conduct likely to mislead. Photo: Andrew Quilty Google has been found guilty of allowing numerous Australian businesses to post misleading and deceptive advertisements on its search engine after a court upheld an appeal by the competition watchdog to have an earlier decision overturned. The judgment, handed down in the...Read More
You can, of course, use Google on your tablet device and your phone — but sadly, you’ve never been able to use it on your Nintendo. No longer! On April 1, Google debuted its newest product, Quest, which uses Google Maps to take you on an 8-bit video game adÂvenÂture. Of course, the date is...Read More
Wed Mar 28, 2012 1:20pm EDT * Oracle rebuffs offer as too low * Trial in patent case due to begin April 16 By Dan Levine March 28 (Reuters) – Google proposed to pay Oracle a percentage of Android revenue if Oracle could prove patent infringement of the mobile operating technology at an upcoming trial,...Read More
(click image for larger view and forslideshow) Google I/O, the company’s annual developer conference, is a sellout. But it’s not necessarily a hit with developers, many of whom are complaining about the way tickets were allotted. Google SVP Vic Gundotra on Tuesday published a Google+ post noting that tickets for Google I/O sold out 20...Read More
(click image for larger view and for slideshow) Google must make its autocomplete suggestions less complete: Japan’s Tokyo District Court has affirmed a petition seeking the suspension of specific, allegedly defamatory terms that the company had been providing in response to certain search queries. The petition came from a man who claims that Google’s predictive...Read More
Computerworld – Google this month released Chrome from the penalty box and reinstated the browser’s PageRank after a 60-day self-imposed sentence over a rule-breaking marketing campaign. At some point during March, Google lifted the penalty it had imposed on Chrome the first week of January, when it demoted the search ranking of the browser’s download...Read More
Google aims to spur demand for its Wallet app, which is designed to boost its share of the multibillion-dollar market for mobile advertising by letting it target shoppers with coupons and promotions. The challenge: Few phones have the right technology installed, and rivals are readying their own systems, including one called ISIS that’s backed by...Read More
IDG News Service – Oracle and Google will hold another round of settlement talks as the trial date nears in their high-stakes court battle over Google’s alleged misuse of Java in Android. A magistrate judge assigned to the case has ordered senior executives from both sides to be present at the talks. The participants must...Read More
Digg founder Kevin Rose (right) has joined Google to work on its social products. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — One of Silicon Valley’s iconic entrepreneurs is going corporate. Google has scooped up Digg founder Kevin Rose and a number of his employees at Milk, the venture he created last year as a lab for experimenting with...Read More
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