Google is helping the economy and hurting its stock
Google is helping the economy and hurting its stock. The company is hiring so many employees for projects outside its thriving search advertising business that its expenses are growing much faster than its revenue. The strategy came into sharper focus in Google Inc.’s first-quarter earnings report released Thursday. Higher costs spooked investors who are already [...]
Google awards $100 million to Eric Schmidt
Google Inc. has awarded $100 million worth of equity toEric Schmidt, who is stepping aside as CEO but will stay with the company as executive chairman. Google said in a regulatory filing on Monday the stock and stock options will be granted on Feb. 2 and will vest over four years. The magnitude of the award [...]
Paul Allen refiles lawsuit against Google, Apple, Facebook, others
Paul Allen and his company, Interval Licensing, LLC, just met the deadline imposed by a US District Court judge for refiling their patent infringement suit against Apple, Google, Facebook, and several other companies when they amended their complaint yesterday. The suit wasoriginally rejected earlier this month for being too vague. While it now contains more [...]
Google Earth 6.0.1.2032 Beta- View satellite imagery, maps, terrain, 3D buildings etc.
Google Earth lets you do smooth sailing flybyes of the entire Earth. You can easily fly to any spot on the globe, by entering any associated data, like street addresses, place names or lat/long coordinates. There are overlays that put additional information on the map, like roads, international boundaries, terrain, 3D buildings, crime statistics, schools, [...]
Google says 300,000 Android phones activated daily
More than 300,000 smartphones running on Google-backed Android software are activated daily, according to an engineering vice president at the Internet giant. Andy Rubin fired off the update in a terse “tweet” at microblogging service Twitter late Wednesday. The news indicates that Android smartphones are building momentum in the hot mobile market, where just a [...]
Google reveals Chrome notebooks
Google today showed off its Chrome Cr-48 pilot notebooks, essentially 12-inch laptops wrapped around a Chrome browser — and little else. The company is also rolling out a Web app store, today, for users of the netbooks and all Chrome browsers. In addition, the company revealed it teamed with Verizon Wireless to provide 100MB of cellular data [...]
Facebook inches past Google for Web users’ minutes
Web surfers are spending more time socializing on Facebook than searching with Google, according to new data from researchers at comScore Inc. In August, people spent a total of 41.1 million minutes on Facebook, comScore said Thursday, about 9.9 percent of their Web-surfing minutes for the month. That just barely surpassed the 39.8 million minutes, or [...]
Build Great mobile applications with Google App Inventor
You can build just about any app you can imagine with App Inventor. Often people begin by building games like MoleMash or games that let you draw funny pictures on your friend’s faces. You can even make use of the phone’s sensors to move a ball through a maze based on tilting the phone. But app [...]
Google and ITA Software Sign Acquisition Agreement
Cambridge and Mountain View, Calif. (July 1, 2010) – ITA Software, Inc., a flight information software company, and Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced that they have signed a definitive agreement for Google to acquire ITA for $700 million in cash, subject to adjustments. “ITA’s very talented team has created an impressive product to organize [...]
Google to Present at the Pacific Crest Technology Conference
Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) announced today that Michael Jones, Chief Technology Advocate, will participate in a keynote panel discussion on the major shifts in technology over the next 3 to 5 years at the Pacific Crest Technology Conference in Vail, Colorado. The session is scheduled for 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time / 7:00 a.m. Pacific Time on [...]
Google says China partially blocks search service
A Google search feature was blocked in China on Thursday, the company said as it awaited Beijing’s decision on whether to renew its operating license amid tensions over censorship. Mainland users were unable to use the search giant’s “suggest” feature, which offers possible results as they start to type a query, the company said. “It [...]
Google Now Counts Site Speed As A Ranking Factor
Google has kept a promise it made last year: Site speed is now a ranking factor in Google’s algorithm, and is already in place for U.S. searchers. But Google also cautions web site owners not to sacrifice relevance in the name of faster web pages, and even says this new ranking factor will impact very few [...]
Google ends 4 years of censoring the Web for China
Google Inc. stopped censoring the Internet for China by shifting its search engine off the mainland Monday but said it will maintain other operations in the country. The maneuver attempts to balance Google’s disdain for China’s Internet rules with the company’s desire to profit from an explosively growing market. Google’s decision comes after an impasse [...]