Archive for the ‘google’ Category
Monday, August 11th, 2008
While Knol is only three weeks old and still relatively obscure, it has already rekindled fears among some media companies that Google is increasingly becoming a competitor. They foresee Google's becoming a powerful rival that not only owns a growing number of content properties, including YouTube, the top online video ...
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
In a submission to court, Google is arguing that in the modern world there can be no expectation of privacy. Google is being sued by a Pennsylvania couple after their home appeared on Google's Street View pages. The couple's house is on a private road clearly marked as private property.Read ...
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Friday, July 18th, 2008
Microsoft's continued series of dubious acquisitions, sloppy pursuit of google and failed technical execution may finally be catching up to the company. Stock down to $25.00 a share. The stock has failed to show growth from its heights in 99 and 00 (like many other tech boom stocks).Read the full ...
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Friday, July 11th, 2008
Yahoo opens up their search technology for entrepreneurs to take on Google. Why start from scratch? I wonder if this is the sort of thing Microsoft might consider unprofitable when they purchase the company - and kill this innovative platform.Read the full story
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Friday, May 9th, 2008
Google [has been] coming under fire for operating a version of its search engine that complies with China's censorship rules. Google argues that it's better for it to have a presence in the country and to offer people some information, rather than for it not to be active in China ...
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Saturday, April 12th, 2008
YouTube has promised a commercial-free zone in the near future to help Congress deal with the problem of hosting campaign videos that were technically breaking the rule of not redirecting constituents to a commercial site.Read the full story
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
What's the big deal? Flickr, which is owned by Yahoo, is hardly about to slay the Goliath that is Google's YouTube. But while this may not sound like an online revolution, it does significantly enhance the Flickr experience for its 42 million monthly visitors. Kakul Srivastava, the company's director of ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
Google launches hosted app engine framework. Like Amazon S3 but more integrated into Google's services. Like the Windows API, but for the 21st century. I think Microsoft just lost the battle for the Web platform. Read the full story
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
'We believe it's important to put our money where our principles are,' Eric Schmidt, Google's chairman and CEO, said in a statement. 'Consumers deserve more competition and innovation than they have in today's wireless world. No matter which bidder ultimately prevails, the real winners of this auction are American consumers ...
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Friday, November 16th, 2007
The company is gearing up to make a serious run at buying wireless spectrum, a chunk of the airwaves that can be used to provide mobile phone and Internet services, in a Federal Communications Commission auction in January. Google is prepared to bid on its own without any partners, say ...
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